El narrador favorito de Estados Unidos pasa del juzgado a la cancha en una novela llena de suspense y emoción.
With the Central team.
He works tirelessly on his game, shooting baskets every morning at dawn by himself in the gym, and soon he\'s dominating everyone in practice.
But he has something no other player has: a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America.
There is plenty of more mature talent and he isn\'t immediately needed.
Samuel moves to Durham, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season.
Partly out of sympathy, the coach of North Carolina Central offers him a scholarship.
Samuel desperately wants to go home, but it\'s just not possible.
His father is dead, his sister is missing, and his mother and two younger brothers are in a refugee camp.
During the tournament, he receives devastating news from home: A civil war is raging across South Sudan, and rebel troops have ransacked his village.
The rest of his game, though, needs work, and the American coaches are less than impressed.
Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed, quickness, and an astonishing vertical leap.
The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true.
He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. --Associated Press 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. building to a climax that won\'t leave readers doubting whether this is a John Grisham novel. the pages turn quickly ...
Hard to put down ...
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first basketball novel.
Y para ello necesitará hacer lo que ningún otro jugador ha logrado: convertirse en una leyenda en solo doce meses.
Sin embargo, él cuenta con algo que ninguno de sus compañeros posee: una feroz determinación por triunfar y así ayudar a su familia a escapar de la guerra que asola su país.
Un torneo de exhibición por Estados Unidos puede convertirse en su gran oportunidad, pero sus condiciones naturales necesitan trabajo y Sooley pronto se da cuenta de que le queda un largo camino por recorrer.
Samuel Sooleymon es un adolescente de Sudán del Sur con un gran amor por el baloncesto, un salto prodigioso y la velocidad del rayo.
Una oportunidad para convertirse en leyenda.
Una esperanza.
Un hombre.
El narrador favorito de Estados Unidos pasa del juzgado a la cancha en una novela llena de suspense y emoción
