Into the Abyss
by Ravi Singh
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Pub Date Sep 28 2023 | Archive Date Oct 30 2023
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Description
An eight-year-old orphan is living off the streets and through the kindness of strangers. His home is a shack in the slums of Kinshasa. Harbouring deep feelings, and wants of a better life. He plans his escape which he must accomplish against all the odds. Soon he gets the opportunity, a charming stranger presents an opportunity to him. He makes his escape but does not get what was promised. For he has now found his way, not in a family home, but a coltan mine. The kind stranger was a child trafficker who would lure his victims with outrageous promises of a better life. Over the years to come, the orphan despite being so young, would work as hard as any adult. This served however, to make him stronger. He would learn about life, and about what is tearing his country apart.
Into the Abyss tells the story of an orphan, born in the slums of Kinshasa, who escapes only to find himself trapped in a coltan mine. But where this life would take him, would be anyone’s guess. Set in The Congo, this is a book about conflict, poverty, dreams, hope, and generosity.
A Note From the Publisher
Marketing Plan
A book about The Congo (DR) Civil War that has raged, and is still raging, in the heart of Africa.
Told from a non-academic perspective, a story which is readable, understandable and easily relatable.
A work of creative non-fiction of the country’s history and circumstances, as seen through the eyes of an orphan.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781805146643 |
| PRICE | £3.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 224 |
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Featured Reviews
Robin P, Reviewer
Ravi Singh's book is a splendid mix of prose and poetry. It also cleverly weaves fact inside its fiction. Its frame is a poignant bildungsroman of Patrice, born into poverty and the violence that has rocked the Congo seemingly since independence. But above all it is a story that becries war and abhors conflict. It is a polemic for peace.
From our assumed stronghold in a normally civilised western country we only see what we want to see of the wars in the Congo. For too long we have turned a blind eye to poverty and starvation, lack of sanitation, rape and murder, and child slavery. The message in this book is simple: we must do more. We cannot let more children go through what Patrice, Marcel and Dalia have in this extraordinary book.
