“Everyone in my village liked U2,” I
said. “Everyone in my country,
maybe. Wouldn’t that be funny, if the
oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers
were playing U2 in their trucks. I think
everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music. Do you know what? The first week I was in the detention center,
U2 were number one here too. That is a
good trick about this world, Sarah. No
one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.”
(from Little Bee
by Chris Cleave)
8½*/10. The full review is here.
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