![]() The difficulties posed by poor communications, a political regime uncomfortable with UN involvement, militant rebels, journalists chasing copy and the differing attitudes of Westerners and the indigenous people are shown without being laboured. ![]() Additionally, the author’s experience of living in the area, and of helping after the tsunami, gives a picture of the complexity of organising resources after such a cataclysmic event. Short chapters, alternating the points of view of the two youngsters, increase our sense of the confusion and bewilderment they are experiencing. Time telescopes as events ensue haphazardly – the sense of urgent unreality enhanced by the journalistic economy of the writing style. ![]() The next day, both are swept up in the awful drama of the tsunami, and the story follows their attempts to survive and to trace their fathers from whom both have been separated. ![]() The setting is Aceh peninsula in Indonesia, Christmas Day 2004 and a chance encounter occurs between a young local boy and an American teenager, holidaying with her family in the region. ![]()
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