The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
by Daoud Hari
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Author: Daoud HariEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-18
ISBN: 1400067448
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Random House
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Book Review: Heart Wrenching
Summary: 4 Stars
RATING: 4 out of 5
This was an extremely difficult book for me to finish. I would pick it up and read and I would become so agitated that I would have to put it down. It was so hard to understand why someone that had endured so much strife in trying to escape from the Sudanese Army that took away the only life he had ever knew would then risk his life to return to a country that was still so hostile. I have read several memoirs written by those who have left their homeland for various reasons, and have been unable to return but have worked untiringly to bring peace to their homeland from afar, many of them with hopes of someday returning. But for Daoud, he was going back into a country that had not changed, and where his brethren were dying daily, yet he still felt some obligation to get the story out by going back in. Daoud did not wait for peace, but jumped right back in with foreign journalists in hopes that the international community would hear their cries before all of his people were dead.
It is a bravery that is uncommon, and his story should be required reading for all high school students in this country. They should take this injustice on as a community project. A project to make this a better world, where we all respond immediately to the needs of a community no matter how far away.
Summary of The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me.The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living witness to the brutal genocide under way in Darfur.
The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world–an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories of our time. Using his high school knowledge of languages as his weapon–while others around him were taking up arms–Daoud Hari has helped inform the world about Darfur.
Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman, grew up in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan. As a child he saw colorful weddings, raced his camels across the desert, and played games in the moonlight after his work was done. In 2003, this traditional life was shattered when helicopter gunships appeared over Darfur’s villages, followed by Sudanese-government-backed militia groups attacking on horseback, raping and murdering citizens and burning villages. Ancient hatreds and greed for natural resources had collided, and the conflagration spread.
Though Hari’s village was attacked and destroyedhis family decimated and dispersed, he himself escaped. Roaming the battlefield deserts on camels, he and a group of his friends helped survivors find food, water, and the way to safety. When international aid groups and reporters arrived, Hari offered his services as a translator and guide. In doing so, he risked his life again and again, for the government of Sudan had outlawed journalists in the region, and death was the punishment for those who aided the “foreign spies.” And then, inevitably, his luck ran out and he was captured. . . .
The Translator tells the remarkable story of a man who came face-to-face with genocide– time and again risking his own life to fight injustice and save his people.
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