The Lost Boy
Tales of a Child Soldier
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James Saunders
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Ayik Chut Deng
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As a boy living in the Dinka tribe in what is now South Sudan, the youngest country in the world, Ayik Chut Deng was a member of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). During his time as a child soldier, he witnessed unspeakable violence and was regularly tortured by older boys. At age nineteen, he and his family escaped the conflict in Sudan and resettled in Toowoomba, Australia. But adjusting to his new life in small-town Queensland was more difficult than he anticipated. He was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that was misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, leading to years of erratic behaviour on the wrong medication. He struggled with drugs and alcohol, fought with his family and found himself in trouble with the law before he came to the painful realisation that his behaviour was putting his life, as well as the lives of his loved ones, at risk.
As an adult now living in Brisbane, Ayik is a father, working as an actor and volunteering at his local youth centre. Overcoming a childhood filled with torture and war was a process of lifelong learning, choices and challenges that included a remarkable chance encounter with a figure from his past, and an appearance on national television.
The Lost Boy is an honest and revealing account of the complexities of trauma, and one man’s story of how he got to where he is today.
©2020 Ayik Chut Deng (P)2020 Penguin Random House AustraliaWhat listeners say about The Lost Boy
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- mareta tugia
- 17-06-2020
MUST READ
An inspiring true story of not only a survivor of war as a child soldier in Daniel Ayik Chut Deng's homeland Sudan and surrounding countries. But also his journey of overcoming PTSD and his road to recovery from addiction in the modern world Australia.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-11-2021
Extraordinary Story
Highly recommend this book of Ayik's powerful journey and just as important, his transformation. I have had the privilege of meeting him when he picked me up as an uber driver before he chose to open up and share his journey publically and we truly connected.
We all have a shitty story in our life and no one in the world should have to experience what Ayik and his people had to. The proudest part I am of Ayik is owning his stuff and constantly being the man he was born to be. His father would be sooo very proud.
Enjoy Australia mate and enjoy every moment with your kids.
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- Mary Barnett
- 13-03-2023
The Human Spirit
Ayuk's story underlines just how the basic goodness of the human spirit can survive adversity. Much respect to this brave
man!
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- Marshall Gardiner
- 06-04-2020
Real life african adventure
What an amazing book. So rich in action. At times horrific, but so authentic. I felt I was in the story experiencing what was is like to be a child soldier.
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- McNutsy
- 16-07-2022
Bless Ayik
Ayik, thank you for sharing your story. It’s incomprehensible to me that people have to live through such adversity. You have opened my eyes to what some have to live through.
Finally, the narration almost stopped me from listening. Every time I heard the narrator swallow, slurp or breathe into the microphone I cringed and a few times I had to stop listening as it was so loud and awful.
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