Refugee Tales: Volume II: 2 - Softcover

Jackie Kay; Olivia Laing; Kamila Shamsie; Rachel Holmes; Caroline Bergvall; Josh Cohen; Ian Duhig; Neel Mukherjee; Marina Warner; Helen Macdonald; Alex Preston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910974307 ISBN 13: 9781910974308

Publisher: Comma Press, 2017

Synopsis

Upon changing his religion, a young student is denounced as an apostate and flees his country 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.

All profits go to the Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group and Kent Help for Refugees.

Volume 2 of the Refugee Tales series.

About this title

About the Author

Jackie Kay MBE FRSE is a Scottish poet and novelist. She is the third modern Makar, the Scottish poet laureate and winner of the Guardian Fiction prize. Dame Marina Warner, DBE, FRSL, FBA is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer, Booker Prize nominated for her novel The Lost Father. Kamila Shamsie is the author of five novels, including Burnt Shadows which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into over 20 languages. Neel Mukherjee was born in Calcutta and educated in Calcutta, Oxford, and Cambridge. He is the author of the Man Booker prize-shortlisted The Lives of Others, A Life Apart (2010), and Past Continuous (2008). He reviews fiction for the Times and the Sunday Telegraph and has written for the TLS, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the New York Times, the Boston Review, and Biblio. Olivia Laing is a British writer and critic, author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City. Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist, and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science; her memoir H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year award among other honours. Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of several books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory, and psychoanalysis, including How to Read Freud. Ian Duhig has written six collections of poetry and has won the National Poetry Competition twice. Caroline Bergvall is a poet and performer of French-Norwegian nationalities. Rachel Holmes is an author, her most recent work is Eleanor Marx: A Life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Comma Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910974307
• ISBN 13: 9781910974308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: David Herd, Anna Pincus