Father of the Lost Boys for Younger Readers

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Author: Yuot A. Alaak
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Released: 04 June, 2024
ISBN: 9781760993900

Father of the Lost Boys for Younger Readers

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Synopsis

Once, there was a man who rescued 20,000 boys from almost certain death. That man was my father. One of those boys was me. This is our story.

During the Second Sudanese Civil War, thousands of boys were displaced or orphaned. In 1989, Mecak Ajang Alaak led the Lost Boys on a four-year journey from Ethiopia to Kenya to protect them from becoming child soldiers. This is the abridged account of that extraordinary true story.

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About the author

Yuot A. Alaak

Yuot A. Alaak is an Australian writer whose memoir, Father of the Lost Boys, was shortlisted for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award (2019), the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award (2020) and the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award (2021).