Overview
Un hombre. Una esperanza. Una oportunidad para convertirse en leyenda.
Samuel Sooleymon es un adolescente de SudĆ”n del Sur con un gran amor por el baloncesto, un salto prodigioso y la velocidad del rayo. Un torneo de exhibiciĆ³n 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.
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Sin embargo, Ć©l cuenta con algo que ninguno de sus compaƱeros posee: una feroz determinaciĆ³n por triunfar y asĆ ayudar a su familia a escapar de la guerra que asola su paĆs. Y para ello necesitarĆ” hacer lo que ningĆŗn otro jugador ha logrado: convertirse en una leyenda en solo doce meses.
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ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first basketball novel.
āHard to put down ... the pages turn quickly ... building to a climax that wonāt leave readers doubting whether this is a John Grisham novel.ā āAssociated Press
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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 basketĀball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true.
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Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed, quickĀness, and an astonishing vertical leap. The rest of his game, though, needs work, and the American coaches are less than impressed. During the tournament, he receives devĀastating news from home: A civil war is raging across South Sudan, and rebel troops have ranĀsacked his village. His father is dead, his sister is missing, and his mother and two younger brothers are in a refugee camp.
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Samuel desperately wants to go home, but itās just not possible. Partly out of sympathy, the coach of North Carolina Central offers him a scholarĀship. Samuel moves to Durham, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season. There is plenty of more mature talent and he isnāt immediately needed. But he has something no other player has: a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America. He works tirelessly on his game, shooting baskets every morning at dawn by himself in the gym, and soon heās dominating everyone in practice. With the Central team losĀing and suffering injury after injury, Sooley, as he is nicknamed, is called off the bench. And the legend begins.
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But how far can Sooley take his team? And will success allow him to save his family?
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