Sooley / John Grisham.

• In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. During the tournament, Samuel receives devastating news from home: A civil war is raging across South Sudan, and rebel troops have ransacked his village. His father is dead, his sister is missing, and his mother and two younger brothers are in a refugee camp. Samuel desperately wants to go home, but it's just not possible. Partly out of sympathy, the coach of North Carolina Central offers him a scholarship. Samuel moves to Durham, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season. But Samuel has something no other player has: a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America. He works tirelessly on his game, and soon he's dominating everyone in practice. With the Central team losing and suffering injury after injury, Sooley, as he is nicknamed, is called off the bench. And the legend begins. 

Ämnesord

Sudaneser  (sao)

Basketboll  (sao)

Utbytesstudenter  (sao)

Sudanese  -- United States -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Students, Foreign  -- United States -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Basketball players  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

College athletes  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Sudanese  (LCSH)

Students, Foreign  (LCSH)

Basketball  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  -- North Carolina (sao)

Durham (N.C.)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

North Carolina  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Genre

Romaner  (saogf)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Heq.01 Skönlitteratur: amerikansk: romaner och noveller

Klassifikation

813/.54 (DDC)

Heq.01 (kssb/8)