Escaping Hunger
About this ebook
Joma N’yolo does. When militants burn their village, he drags his six-year-old brother Dobi into a world of smugglers, Sahara heat, and a sea that offers either rescue or erasure. He keeps Dobi alive with furtive prayers, a mother’s lullaby, and a scarred wooden bird pressed like a talisman to a small chest.
Escaping Hunger is a literary refugee story and coming-of-age survival drama that moves like a film: visceral desert sun, claustrophobic cargo holds, fluorescent intake rooms where paper can mean salvation or exile. For readers of Beasts of No Nation and The Kite Runner, it’s an unflinching, tender portrait of what one child will risk to save another.
How much of yourself will you give to keep a small life whole?
About the author
Jobic Chakalisa is the bestselling author of The Siberian Nightmare, Target: Tehran, and North Korea's Secret Weapon.
He currently lives in Chicago. He has always been a movie lover, and this certainly shines through in the way he writes his novels. You won't get lost in over-description, time will never be wasted on characters that have nothing to do with the story, and every single chapter has meaning.
Jobic has only ever had one goal with his work, and that is to entertain. And he hopes your escape into his pages have at the very least done that.
