EAN: 9781350171916

REFUGEE BOY - BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH TASCHENBUCH

An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing
where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when
his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle across the border. Scavenger. As
a violent civil war rages back home in Ethiopia  teenager Alem and his father are in a bed and
breakfast in Berkshire. It's his best holiday ever. The next morning his father is gone and has
left a note explaining that he and his mother want to protect Alem from the war. This strange
grey country of England is now his home. On his own  and in the hands of the social services
and the Refugee Council  Alem lives from letter to letter  waiting to hear something from his
father. Then he meets car-obsessed Mustapha  the lovely 'out-of-your-league' Ruth and dangerous
Sweeney - three unexpected allies who spur him on in his fight to be seen as more than just the
Refugee Boy. Lemn Sissay's remarkable stage adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah's bestselling
novel is published here in the Methuen Drama Student Edition series  featuring commentary &
notes by Professor Lynette Goddard (Royal Holloway  University of London  UK) that help the
student unpack the play's themes  language  structure and production history to date.

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