A House in the Sky: A Memoir
A House in the Sky: A Memoir
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A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Sara Amanda Lindhout
BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout's lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught. Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in A House in the Sky. It is the New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most remote places and then into captivity: Exquisitely told.A young woman's harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph (The New York Times Book Review). As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia--the most dangerous place on earth. On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory--every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity--and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion--for her na ve younger self, for her kidnappers--that becomes the key to Lindhout's survival (O, The Oprah Magazine).| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781451651485 |
| ISBN 10 | 1451651481 |
| Titre | A House in the Sky: A Memoir |
| Auteur | Sara Amanda Lindhout |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Scribner |
| Année de publication | 2014-06-17 |
| Nombre de pages | 0 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |