Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Summary of Little Princes. By Conor Grennan

This book starts out with a man named Conor. After working hard throughout life he has managed to save up some money and is now planning to take a year off from work to travel the world. In doing so, he plans to start out by volunteering at an orphanage in Nepal. That way he won't be called selfish back home.
When he arrives, after a brief orientation to Nepal and an example on how to use the toilets, the volunteers are split up into different households to become accustomed to Nepal easier. This is where a little girl teaches him some "Nepali". He soon found out the little girl was deaf and was teaching him the wrong thing.
After spending a week with the family, Conor is soon sent to the orphanage.
He arrives and is greeted by some very excited children, but as he gets settled in and is becoming familiar with the children and how things are done, he finds out about their past, little by little.
He is shocked to learn that the children were there because of a child trafficker. One who has ties to people in the government and just refuses to get caught.
Not long after the trafficker makes a surprise visit to the orphanage for some odd reason, a mother of two of the children arrives.
This is when Conor decides to help the children. Help them find their families.This becomes more and more difficult though as the war continues and Bahndas become more dangerous everytime. 
Soon the three months are gone and Conor leaves for his trip for around the world.

One year passes and Conor returns to the Orphanage. He keeps on trying to help the kids and also seven more kids that were found with the mother that had shown up. 3 months late Conor goes back to the U.S.
A kidnapping happens when Conor is gone. The trafficker shows up and takes the seven kids that another orphanage, Umbrella, has agreed to care for. Conor then decides to start up a group to fundraise for finding the Nepali childrens parents in Humli.
Thinking that the war has calmed due to the King renouncing the throne under Maoist threat, Conor returns to Nepali to find the seven children.
In the end, the children are found and the families are reunited from Humli.

I would recommend this book to anyone. This book is well written and the story follows plot very well. I am inspired by this book and now that I know what went on Nepali, I view children differently. Whether they are starving or hard working. I give this book a nine out of ten.
I was very surprised I found this book very interesting since it outside of my favorite genres. I typically would not read a story like this, but I loved this book a lot.

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