{"product_id":"in-the-land-of-magic-soldiers-a-story-of-white-and-black-in-west-africa-paperback","title":"In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Bergner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book 2003 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA chilling, beautifully written narrative of African war\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSierra Leone is the world's most war-ravaged country. There, in a West African landscape of spectacular beauty, rampaging soldiers--many not yet in their teens--have made a custom of hacking off the hands of their victims, then letting them live as the ultimate emblem of terror. The country is so anarchic and so desperate that, forty years after independence, its people long to be recolonized. And the West wants to save it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDaniel Bergner's \u003ci\u003eIn the Land of Magic Soldiers \u003c\/i\u003efollows both a set of white would-be saviors--a family of American missionaries, a mercenary helicopter gunship pilot, and the army of Great Britain--and also a set of Sierra Leoneans, among them a father who rescues his daughter from rape, loses his hands as punishment, then begins to rebuild his life; a child soldier and sometime cannibal; and a highly Westernized medical student who claims immunity to bullets and a cure for H.I.V. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA story of black and white, of the First World and the world left infinitely behind, of those who would nation-build and those who live in a land of fire and jungle, \u003ci\u003eIn the Land of Magic Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable work of literary reportage by a terrific reporter with a novelist's eye (Peter Applebome, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eMoments of Favor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGod of the Rodeo: The Quest for Rendempiton in Louisiana's Angola Prison\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDaniel Bergner\u003c\/b\u003e has written for \u003ci\u003eHarper's, Talk, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his family in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52404496073009,"sku":"9780312422929","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/ajNlcG53Q3N2amowQmFIZWg1L0I1Zz09.webp?v=1768932733","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/in-the-land-of-magic-soldiers-a-story-of-white-and-black-in-west-africa-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}