Ages 13-15 - 92 pages, 34282 words | 4 hours 07 minutes of reading | © Éditions du Jasmin, 2014, for the 1st publication - all rights reserved
Fighting with words ? Fight with weapons? This is the terrible dilemma facing young Aman, who comes from a people of nomadic poets. Like his grandfather, he is the Pathfinder, the poet who helps the men of his tribe by telling them the story of their ancestors.
As civil war rages in Somalia, Aman is forced to join the city. Enrolled in the militia, he becomes a child soldier, before deciding otherwise.
In a captivating story, Aman tells us his story of the desert and the drought, of war and death, of life as a soldier and of the love that will bring him brutally to adulthood.