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Nya's part of the story is set completely in Southern Sudan in the years 2008 and 2009. The majority of this part of the story is set in Nya's home village, although other scenes take place at the lake camp she and her family travel to during the dry season. One important scene takes place at a medical clinic that Nya and her mother take her younger sister Akeer to when she becomes ill due to drinking the filthy water from the lakebed.
The majority of Salva's part of the story takes place in various nations in Africa. This part of the story starts out in Southern Sudan in 1985 and chronicles Salva's life and experiences through to 2007. Significant scenes set in Sudan take place in the bush, while crossing the Nile River, and in the Akobo Desert. Other significant locations in Africa include the Itang refugee camp in Ethiopia and the Ifo refugee camp in Kenya. When Salva is chosen to go to America, he lives with a family in Rochester, New York and eventually attends college there. The final chapter of the novel is set in Nya's village in 2009, where Salva has come to drill a well.
The multiple settings used in the novel are crucial to the plot, and this is particularly true in Salva's part of the story. Showing the various places - many of them very unpleasant - that Salva has been forced to survive in, and the hardships he has been forced to undergo, gives the reader an insight into what shapes him into the man he eventually becomes.
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