The translator : a tribesman's memoir of Darfur / Daoud Hari, as told to Dennis Michael Burke and Megan M. McKenna.

This is a harrowing memoir of how one person has made a difference: Daoud Hari helped inform the world about the genocide in Darfur. Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman, grew up in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 2003, traditional life was shattered when government-backed militias attacked Darfur&...

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Main Author: Hari, Daoud
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, ©2008.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • A call from the road
  • We are here
  • The dead Nile
  • A bad time to go home
  • My sister's village
  • The end of the world
  • Homecoming
  • The seven of us
  • The translator
  • Sticks for shade
  • Two and a half million stories
  • Connections
  • Nicholas Kristof and Ann Curry reporting
  • Once more home
  • Waking up in N'Djamena
  • A strange forest
  • The sixth trip
  • What can change in twenty-four hours?
  • Some boys up ahead with a Kalashnikov
  • Our bad situation gets a little worse
  • Blindfolds, please
  • We came to rescue you guys
  • We can't think of anything to say
  • The rules of hospitality
  • Open house at the torture center
  • The Hawalya
  • My one percent chance.