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Article: The Story of My Life Refugee Writing in Oxford.(The Silver Throat of the Moon Writing in Exile)(Book Review)
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- New Internationalist
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- November 1, 2005
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The Story of My Life Refugee Writing in Oxford
edited by Carole Angier (The Charlbury Press ISBN 0 9546342 4 1)
The Silver Throat of the Moon Writing in Exile
edited by Jennifer Langer (Five Leaves Publications ISBN 0907123651)
Salman Rushdie once said: 'Literature has little or nothing to do with a writer's home address.' Maybe not, but when a person is uprooted from home and culture, particularly as a refugee, it would be a strange sort of literature that did not address that condition. The six refugees whose work is collected in The Story of My Life have had to come to terms with exile in an often indifferent or actively hostile ...