Delia reviewed Still Alive by Safdar Ahmed
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4 stars
Can’t believe this almost won an award under the kids section. Brilliant introduction to the harrowing (not)processing of refugees.
Softcover, 231 pages
Published by Twelve Panels Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-978-098-059-7
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In early 2011, Safdar Ahmed visited Sydney’s Villawood Immigration Detention Centre for the first time. He brought pencils and sketchbooks into the centre and started drawing with the people detained there. Their stories are told in this book.
Interweaving journalism, history and autobiography, Still Alive is an intensely personal indictment of Australia’s refugee detention policies and procedures. It is also a searching reflection on the redemptive power of art. And death metal.
