전쟁의 폐허를 딛고 일어선 뭇 사람들의 눈물겨운 역사원래 ‘0년’은 없다. 기원전과 기원후를 나누는 ‘예수 탄생’은 ‘서기 1년’이기 때문이다. 하지만 『0년』의 저자 이안 부루마는 제2차 세계대전의 종결로 현대세계가 탄생했던 시기, 즉 1945년을 ‘0년(원년)’이라고 명명한다. 그리고 현대의 많은...
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way.
Take your child and join a little boy and his mom on a journey to his grandma's house. During the walk, there are a lot of things he depends on his mom to make him feel more secure and safe. With his mom by his side, all insecurities and dangers fall away. He feels safe with her. He then realizes one day he will leave his parents just as her mom left hers. He avoids that thought and enjoys the moment of being a kid with the precious family he has by his side.