- Title:
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A House in the Sky
- Written by:
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Amanda Lindhout; Sara Corbett
- Read by:
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Amanda Lindhout
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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13 hours 16 minutes
- Published:
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October 01 2014
- Available Date:
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October 01 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486211241
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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'Moving and informative reading for everyone.' (Starred Review)
Library Journal
Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel.
As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. Later in life, in war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she travelled to Somalia – “the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.
Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives “wife lessons” from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memory – every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity – and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the tortured woman kept in chains in the dark.
'Writing with immediacy and urgency, Lindhout and Corbett recount the horrific ordeal in crisp, frank, evocative prose. But what readers will walk away with is an admiration for Lindhout’s deep reserves of courage under unimaginable circumstances.'
Booklist