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Refugee Boy

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Refugee Boy

SKU: 9781350171916 Category: Product ID: 380290

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Title: Refugee Boy
Author: GODDARD LYNETTE / ZEPHANIAH BENJAMIN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/03/2022
Imprint: METHUEN DRAMA
Price: $22.00
Publishing status: Active

Adapted from the novel by Benjamin Zephaniah, Refugee Boy is an urgent story of a young boy sent from Ethiopia to England to escape the violent civil war. It is published here for the first time as a Methuen Drama Student Edition.

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.

ISBN: 9781350171916
Pages: 104