Songs of a War Boy: My story
by Deng Thiak Adut and Ben McKelvey
Hachette, $32.99 pb, 315 pp, 9780733636523
Memoir
Songs of a War Boy: My story by Deng Thiak Adut and Ben McKelvey
Reviewed by Dilan Gunawardana •
Songs are of great importance to the Dinka people of South Sudan. ‘They’re our avatars, and our biographies. They precede us, introduce us, and live on after we die,’ writes the refugee advocate, Archibald muse, and NSW Australian of the Year for 2017, Deng Thiak Adut. His memoir, Songs of a War Boy, serves as a profound if disturbing ballad to his tragedies and triumphs.
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Songs of a War Boy: My story
by Deng Thiak Adut and Ben McKelvey
Hachette, $32.99 pb, 315 pp, 9780733636523
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