Catalonia Today

Review - Books
24 February 2005

What can be done to rehabilitate a six-year-old war veteran? Jarrett-Macauley’s first novel is set in post-civil war Sierra Leone, and takes a courageous look at what happens to child soldiers after the conflict has finished. Citizen is the six-year-old who became the instrument of his own grandmother’s death, while Moses is the husband of the murdered woman. A complicated novel that mixes conventional narrative with West African storytelling and keeps the reader guessing to the end.

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