Mansoor Adayfi
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then sold to the US after 9/11, he was disappeared to Guantanamo Bay, where he spent the next 14 years as Detainee #441. Don't Forget Us Here tells two coming-of-age stories in parallel: a makeshift island outpost becoming the world's most notorious prison and an innocent young man emerging from its darkness....