Describe the setting of the story. Give specific details from the story.

The action of the novel takes place in southern Sudan, in two different years. Nya's story is in 2008-09, and Salva's is mostly in 1985 but goes all the way up to 2009 when his story intersects with Nya's.

"Their region was inhabited by large herds of antelope, wildebeest, gnus - and the lions that preyed on them."

"The Nile: the longest river in the world, the mother of all life in Sudan. Uncle explained that they would come to the river at one of its broadest stretches."