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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250067634
ISBN-13
9781250067630
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211214117
Product Key Features
Book Title
City of Thorns : Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
World / African, Africa / East
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
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1.3 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
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5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-029505
Reviews
"With remarkable intimacy, Rawlence reveals the humanity of these people in crisis who must struggle to survive in the overcrowded camp....A significant, timely, and gloomy tale that reveals the human costs of a growing world crisis." -- Kirkus Reviews "By combining his own experiences with interviews with residents of Dadaab, [Rawlence] makes the human rights crisis-rarely covered in the media-vivid and immediate for readers....This is a compelling examination of the tragedy of a place where one 'can only survive...by imagining a life elsewhere.'" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) " City of Thorns is a powerful and timely reminder of how unresolved conflicts, from Somalia to Syria, have contributed to the unprecedented global refugee crisis. Ben Rawlence's intimate, vivid portrait of the forgotten refugees in Dadaab is a much needed effort to close the humanity gap between the West and the rest. A must read"--Kim Ghattas, author of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power "The most important book I've read in a long time. Not only does it make plain modern geopolitics, and what makes a refugee, it holds deeper truths about humanity and the system we have designed to preserve it when all seems lost. I worked in these camps at the height of this crisis. I needed this book. As we face a world with more people displaced from their homes than any ever before, City of Thorns is essential reading."--Dr. James Maskalyk, author of Six Months in Sudan "Where once writers made myths, now increasingly it's the writer's job to unmake the myths created by modern media. City of Thorns is a clear-eyed account of people living in limbo and a testament both to human frailty and human resilience. By recounting the stories of a few Rawlence sheds light on all the stories of all in the refugees in all the camps that will never be told. As timely as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring --this book should be required reading."--Aminatta Forna, author of The Memory of Love "At a time when West governments are obsessing over migrant flows, City of Thorns offers unique insights into what prompts people to abandon their ancestral homes in the first place and the dreams that send them questing for a better life. Researching this book can't have been easy. Ben Rawlence is to be congratulated not just for his accessible writing style, but for his modesty, pluck and determination." -- Michela Wrong, author of In the Footseps of Mr. Kurtz and Borderlines "To us they are just numbers, but refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants are names, lives, sons, daughters, lovers, people full of hope and grit. In this book Ben Rawlence has given us a complex tapestry of refugee life without romanticising it. It is like a Brueghel picture in words. An eloquent testimony by a writer with heart." -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Refusing the Veil and The Settler's Cookbook "Compassionate and powerful, this book gets to the heart of the tragedy of Somalia, and the struggles that face those displaced by war and want in eastern Africa. To better understand the current crisis of migration in our modern world, start here."--David Anderson, professor of African History, With remarkable intimacy, Rawlence reveals the humanity of these people in crisis who must struggle to survive in the overcrowded camp....A significant, timely, and gloomy tale that reveals the human costs of a growing world crisis., "With remarkable intimacy, Rawlence reveals the humanity of these people in crisis who must struggle to survive in the overcrowded camp....A significant, timely, and gloomy tale that reveals the human costs of a growing world crisis." -- Kirkus Reviews "By combining his own experiences with interviews with residents of Dadaab, [Rawlence] makes the human rights crisis-rarely covered in the media-vivid and immediate for readers....This is a compelling examination of the tragedy of a place where one 'can only survive...by imagining a life elsewhere.'" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) " City of Thorns is a powerful and timely reminder of how unresolved conflicts, from Somalia to Syria, have contributed to the unprecedented global refugee crisis. Ben Rawlence's intimate, vivid portrait of the forgotten refugees in Dadaab is a much needed effort to close the humanity gap between the West and the rest. A must read"--Kim Ghattas, author of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power "This is the most important book I've read in a long time. Not only does it make plain modern geopolitics, and what makes a refugee, it holds deeper truths about humanity and the system we have designed to preserve it when all seems lost. I worked in these camps at the height of this crisis. I needed this book. It would have helped me, on my return, explain why our response to these emergencies is so vital: each of the thousands of people affected has a story, and our reply to them, in their time of need, not only influences the outcome, it shows our character. As we face a world with more people displaced from their homes than any ever before, City of Thorns is essential reading." -Dr. James Maskalyk, author of Six Months in Sudan "Where once writers made myths, now increasingly it's the writer's job to unmake the myths created by modern media. City of Thorns is a clear-eyed account of people living in limbo and a testament both to human frailty and human resilience. By recounting the stories of a few Rawlence sheds light on all the stories of all in the refugees in all the camps that will never be told. As timely as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring --this book should be required reading."--Aminatta Forna, author of The Memory of Love "At a time when West governments are obsessing over migrant flows, City of Thorns offers unique insights into what prompts people to abandon their ancestral homes in the first place and the dreams that send them questing for a better life. Researching this book can't have been easy. Ben Rawlence is to be congratulated not just for his accessible writing style, but for his modesty, pluck and determination." -- Michela Wrong, author of In the Footseps of Mr. Kurtz and Borderlines "To us they are just numbers, but refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants are names, lives, sons, daughters, lovers, people full of hope and grit. In this book Ben Rawlence has given us a complex tapestry of refugee life without romanticising it. It is like a Brueghel picture in words. An eloquent testimony by a writer with heart." -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Refusing the Veil and The Settler's Cookbook "Compassionate and powerful, this book gets to the heart of the tragedy of Somalia, and the struggles that face those displaced by war and want in eastern Africa. To better understand the current crisis of migration in our modern world, start here."--David Anderson, professor of African History, "With remarkable intimacy, Rawlence reveals the humanity of these people in crisis who must struggle to survive in the overcrowded camp....A significant, timely, and gloomy tale that reveals the human costs of a growing world crisis." -- Kirkus Reviews "By combining his own experiences with interviews with residents of Dadaab, [Rawlence] makes the human rights crisis-rarely covered in the media-vivid and immediate for readers....This is a compelling examination of the tragedy of a place where one ''can only survive...by imagining a life elsewhere.''" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) " City of Thorns is a powerful and timely reminder of how unresolved conflicts, from Somalia to Syria, have contributed to the unprecedented global refugee crisis. Ben Rawlence''s intimate, vivid portrait of the forgotten refugees in Dadaab is a much needed effort to close the humanity gap between the West and the rest. A must read"--Kim Ghattas, author of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power " City of Thorns is a brilliant if haunting book that reveals just what it means to be numbered among the countless tens of thousands of refugees whose existence has been shattered by conflict, who survive with nothing, cast adrift from tradition and security, obliged to cobble together shadow lives from the detritus of memory and lost dreams. It is at once both an intimate story of redemption and hope, a prayer for the innocent, and a damning universal indictment of all those whose monstrous acts and vainglorious ambitions unleash the dogs of war." - Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest "The most important book I''ve read in a long time. Not only does it make plain modern geopolitics, and what makes a refugee, it holds deeper truths about humanity and the system we have designed to preserve it when all seems lost. I worked in these camps at the height of this crisis. I needed this book. As we face a world with more people displaced from their homes than any ever before, City of Thorns is essential reading."--Dr. James Maskalyk, author of Six Months in Sudan "Where once writers made myths, now increasingly it''s the writer''s job to unmake the myths created by modern media. City of Thorns is a clear-eyed account of people living in limbo and a testament both to human frailty and human resilience. By recounting the stories of a few Rawlence sheds light on all the stories of all in the refugees in all the camps that will never be told. As timely as Rachel Carson''s Silent Spring --this book should be required reading."--Aminatta Forna, author of The Memory of Love "At a time when West governments are obsessing over migrant flows, City of Thorns offers unique insights into what prompts people to abandon their ancestral homes in the first place and the dreams that send them questing for a better life. Researching this book can''t have been easy. Ben Rawlence is to be congratulated not just for his accessible writing style, but for his modesty, pluck and determination." -- Michela Wrong, author of In the Footseps of Mr. Kurtz and Borderlines "To us they are just numbers, but refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants are names, lives, sons, daughters, lovers, people full of hope and grit. In this book Ben Rawlence has given us a complex tapestry of refugee life without romanticising it. It is like a Brueghel picture in words. An eloquent testimony by a writer with heart." -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Refusing the Veil and The Settler''s Cookbook "Compassionate and powerful, this book gets to the heart of the tragedy of Somalia, and the struggles that face those displaced by war and want in eastern Africa. To better understand the current crisis of migration in our modern world, start here."--David Anderson, professor of African History, At a time when West governments are obsessing over migrant flows, City of Thorns offers unique insights into what prompts people to abandon their ancestral homes in the first place and the dreams that send them questing for a better life. Researching this book can't have been easy. Ben Rawlence is to be congratulated not just for his accessible writing style, but for his modesty, pluck and determination., By combining his own experiences with interviews with residents of Dadaab, [Rawlence] makes the human rights crisis-rarely covered in the media-vivid and immediate for readers....This is a compelling examination of the tragedy of a place where one 'can only survive...by imagining a life elsewhere.', Where once writers made myths, now increasingly it's the writer's job to unmake the myths created by modern media. City of Thorns is a clear-eyed account of people living in limbo and a testament both to human frailty and human resilience. By recounting the stories of a few Rawlence sheds light on all the stories of all in the refugees in all the camps that will never be told. As timely as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this book should be required reading., To us they are just numbers, but refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants are names, lives, sons, daughters, lovers, people full of hope and grit. In this book Ben Rawlence has given us a complex tapestry of refugee life without romanticising it. It is like a Brueghel picture in words. An eloquent testimony by a writer with heart.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
362.8783096762
Table Of Content
Maps List of people Prologue Part One: Ma'a Lul - Famine 1. The Horn of Africa 2. Guled 3. Maryam 4. Ifo 5. Nisho 6. Isha 7. Hawa Jube 8. A Friday in Nairobi 9. Maiden Voyage 10. The Silent March 11. Muna and Monday 12. Live from Dadaab 13. Billai Part Two: Rob - Rain 14. Kidnap 15. The Jubaland Initiative 16. Tawane 17. Heroes Day 18. Kheyro 19. Police! Police! 20. Nomads in the City 21. We Are Not Here to Impose Solutions from Afar 22. Y = al-Shabaab 23. Buufis 24. Grufor 25. In Bed with the Enemy Part Three: Guri - Home 26. Crackdown! 27. The Stain of Sugar 28. Becoming a Leader 29. Too Much Football 30. The Night Watchmen 31. Sugar Daddy 32. Italy, or Die Trying 33. Waiting for the Moon 34. Eid El-Fitr 35. Solar Mamas 36. Knowledge Never Expires 37. Welcome to Westgate 38. Westgate Two 39. A Lap Dance with the UN 40. A Better Place Epilogue Notes Further Reading Acknowledgements
Synopsis
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Named a Best of Book of the Year by The Economist and Foreign Affairs Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist The Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it's a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a "nursery for terrorists"; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents, it's their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic. Its entire economy is grey. And its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a firsthand witness to a strange and desperate place, getting to know many of those who had come seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and Kheyro, a student whose future hangs upon her education. In City of Thorns , Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp, sketching the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped. Lucid, vivid, and illuminating, City of Thorns is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dabaab home., Named a 2016 Best of Book of the Year by The Economist To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and schoolgirl Kheyro, whose future hangs upon her education. In City of Thorns , Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp and to sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped there. Rawlence combines intimate storytelling with broad socio-political investigative journalism, doing for Dadaab what Katherinee Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers did for the Mumbai slums. Lucid, vivid and illuminating, City of Thorns is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dadaab home.
LC Classification Number
HV640.4.K4R39 2016
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