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The Girl Who Smiled Beads
- Narrator
- Robin Miles
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 26 April 2018
- Run Time
- 9 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil, read by Robin Miles.
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When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear.
As the Rwandan civil war raged, Clemantine and her sister Claire were forced to flee their home. They ran for hours, then walked for days, not towards anything, just away. they sought refuge where they could find it, and escaped when refuge became imprisonment. Together, they experienced the best and the worst of humanity. After spending six years seeking refuge in eight different countries, Clemantine and Claire were granted refugee status in America and began a new journey.
Honest, life-affirming and searingly profound, this is the story of a girl's struggle to remake her life and create new stories - without forgetting the old ones.
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'Extraordinary and heartrending. Wamariya is as fiercely talented as she is courageous' JUNOT DIAZ, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
'Brilliant ... has captivated me for a couple of years' SELMA BLAIR
Critics Review
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Extraordinary
The Guardian
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Sharp, moving memoir . . . Wamariya tells her own story with feeling, in vivid prose. She has remade herself, as she explains was necessary to do, on her own terms
New York Times
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Her introspection, honesty and humanity in sharing her story and exploring these questions are thoughtful and moving to read
Culture Fly
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A riveting story and one that, somehow, gives hope too
Stylist, Spring Picks
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Clemantine Wamariya has written a defining, luminescent memoir that shines a sharp light on the dark forces that roil our age . . . Her gripping and brutally honest reflections inspire us to count our blessings and summon us to follow her fierce and unrelenting example to try to help build the world we wish to see
Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell
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A touching tale of sorrow and hope, of the worst and the best of mankind
I-M Magazine
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A powerful memoir
Emerald Street
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Extraordinary and heartrending. Wamariya is as fiercely talented as she is courageous
Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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A deeply personal and emotive narrative.
The Lancet Journal
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Details
- Author
- Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
- Narrator
- Robin Miles
- Duration
- 9 hours
- Release Date
- 26 April 2018
- ISBN
- 9781473562578
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Refugees and political asylum
Synopsis
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil, read by Robin Miles. ____________________________________When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear.As the Rwandan civil war raged, Clemantine and her sister Claire were forced to flee their home. They ran for hours, then walked for days, not towards anything, just away. they sought refuge where they could find it, and escaped when refuge became imprisonment. Together, they experienced the best and the worst of humanity. After spending six years seeking refuge in eight different countries, Clemantine and Claire were granted refugee status in America and began a new journey.Honest, life-affirming and searingly profound, this is the story of a girl's struggle to remake her life and create new stories - without forgetting the old ones.____________________________________'Extraordinary and heartrending. Wamariya is as fiercely talented as she is courageous' JUNOT DIAZ, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'Brilliant ... has captivated me for a couple of years' SELMA BLAIR
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