A collection of 24 stories that narrate first-person accounts of migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers affected by multiple displacements due to political or sectarian strife across several countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, Eritrea, and South Sudan. The stories take the reader to the heart of human existence, depicting a sliver of the textured experiences encapsulated in the life of each person on the run.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Prelude
- Afghanistan
- Dreams are dreams
- In wilderness, I lit a lamp called school
- Eritrea
- All I wanted was to play football
- India
- Maybe the birds are homeless too
- When slow death followed murder most foul
- Iraq
- I hear the Yezidis have been hounded out before
- Living in a camp is never easy
- Myanmar
- Then a storm began to brew
- Pakistan
- Grief and mistrust walk hand in hand
- Sri Lanka
- I find it hard to heal myself
- As bombs rained, life changed in a jiffy
- South Sudan
- Tell them not to keep me in the camp
- Syria
- Who do I know here?
- I crossed the seas for my brothe
- I will return to rebuild my city
- Beyond successive exiles
- In a state of weightlessness
- She believed in the unity of existence
- Tibet
- Mine to keep the hope alive
- I don't know if freedom exists
- Across the mountains, a hope called home
- Ukraine
- I have nothing to go back to
- Yemen
- A future full of question marks
- No time or will to help others
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author and Contributors
