Shining: The Story of a Lucky man [Audiobook] download free by Abdi Aden
- Listen audiobook: Shining: The Story of a Lucky man
- Author: Abdi Aden
- Release date: 2016/8/8
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780732299842
- Rating: 8.55 of 10
- Votes: 823
- Review by: Milani Saucedo
- Review rating: 8.38 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/15
- Duration: 3H46M19S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: OGG, WMA, FLAC, WAV, MPEG4, MP3 (compression AZW4, ZIP, JAR, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M22S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the way, death squads hunted them and they daily faced violence, danger and starvation. After almost four months, they arrived in at refugee camps in Kenya - of the group he'd set out with, only five had survived. All alone in the world and desperate to find his family, Abdi couldn't stay in Kenya, so he turned around and undertook the dangerous journey back to Mogadishu. But the search was fruitless, and eventually Abdi made his way - alone, with no money in his pockets - to Romania, then to Germany, completely dependent on the kindess of strangers. He was just seventeen years old when he arrived in Melbourne. He had no English, no family or friends, no money, no home. Yet, against the odds, he not only survived, he thrived. Abdi went on to complete secondary education and later university. He became a youth worker, was acknowledged with the 2007 Victorian Refugee Recognition Award and was featured in the SBS second series of Go Back to Where You Came From. Despite what he has gone through, Abdi is a most inspiring man, who is constantly thankful for his life and what he has. Everything he has endured and achieved is testament to his quiet strength and courage, his resilience and most of all, his warm-hearted, shining and enduring optimism. 'Powerful and uplifting' Bookseller + Publisher 'Aden's odyssey belongs to our time ... Here is a man who counts his blessings and has an inspiring story to tell.' Sydney Morning Herald
- Other categories, genre or collection: Prose: Non-fiction, Migration, Immigration & Emigration, Autobiography: General, Refugees & Political Asylum, Biography: General, Military History: Post WW2 Conflicts, African History, Memoirs, Black & Asian Studies
- Download servers: Tresorit, 4Shared, MEGA, Dropbox, Mejor Torrent, Mediafire, BitShare. Compressed in AZW4, ZIP, JAR, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.64 USD
- Dimensions: 155x235x23mm
- Weight: 378g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Sydney, Australia
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