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Refugee Tales - Volume II

English · Paperback / Softback

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Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry... After years of travelling and losing almost everything - his country, his children, his wife, his farm - an Afghan man finds unexpected warmth and comfort in a stranger's home... A student protester is forced to leave his homeland after a government crackdown, and spends the next 25 years in limbo, trapped in the UK asylum system... Modelled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. Here, poets and novelists create a space in which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and listening becomes an act of welcome.

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Modelled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained.

Product details

Authors Caroline Bergvall, Josh Cohen, Ian Duhig, Rachel Holmes, Jackie Kay, Olivia Laing, Helen Macdonald, Neel Mukherjee, Kamila Shamsie
Assisted by David Herd (Editor)
Publisher Comma Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.07.2017
 
EAN 9781910974308
ISBN 978-1-910974-30-8
No. of pages 144
Dimensions 197 mm x 129 mm x 27 mm
Weight 164 g
Series Refugee Tales
Refugee Tales
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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