Refugee Tales: 1 (Refugee Tales #1)

By: Chris Cleave and Marina Lewycka and Ali Smith and Abdulrazak Gurnah and Dragan Todorovic and Stephen Collis and David Herd and Inua Ellams and Avaes Mohammad and Jade Amoli-Jackson and Patience Agbabi and Hubert Moore and Carol Watts and Michael Zand

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Synopsis: These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.