The Radiance of Tomorrow is a novel by Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. In this book, he writes of life in Sierra Leone after the civil war.

A few village Elders, and others who have managed to survive the war, slowly return to what is left of their hometown of Imperi, to try to rebuild a life for themselves. They are met by obstacles every step of the way, the worst of which is a foreign mining company that comes to the area, pollutes their water and displaces what is left of the town.

This is one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful novels I have ever read. Beah is a poet, his language soars off the page into the readers heart. This is not a novel that will soon be forgotten, He has created images that will stay with me forever.

A painful, yet brilliant novel; a story of finding hope in the most unlikely of places. Highly recommended.