621 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 2016
City of thorns
nine lives in the world's largest refugee camp Thorndike Press large print core
by Ben Rawlence
5 stars
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Ben Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya, and to sketch the wider political forces that keep half a million refugees trapped there. Lucid, vivid and illuminating, City of Thorns tells an urgent human story.
Subjects
- Large type books
- Refugee camps
- Refugees
- Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1979-
Places
- Kenya
- Somalia