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Scattered: A Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller

Autor Aamna Mohdin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 iun 2024

Observăm în Scattered o fuziune rară între rigoarea investigației jurnalistice și vulnerabilitatea profundă a memoriilor personale. Aamna Mohdin, corespondent pentru The Guardian, propune o structură narativă care pornește de la un paradox: în timp ce documenta criza refugiaților din Calais în 2015, a realizat că propria sa identitate era construită pe o amnezie selectivă. Stilul este cel al unei anchete intime, în care autoarea nu doar că își interoghează părinții despre fuga lor din Somalia devastată de războiul civil, dar pornește fizic pe urmele lor pentru a recupera o istorie care îi fusese, până atunci, străină. Notăm cu interes felul în care Mohdin deconstruiește eticheta de „refugiat”, transformând-o dintr-o statistică politică într-o experiență umană fragmentată, dar plină de demnitate. Călătoria ei ne poartă din Londra până în Somalia — o „acasă” simbolică unde nu trăise niciodată — și înapoi în tabăra de refugiați Kakuma din Kenya, locul unde s-a născut. Abordarea jurnalistică de teren evocă Human Cargo de Caroline Moorehead, însă perspectiva lui Mohdin este fundamental diferită prin natura sa subiectivă; ea nu este doar un observator extern al diasporei, ci un subiect care își revendică dreptul la propria memorie. Tonul este echilibrat, evitând senzaționalismul, dar păstrând o intensitate emoțională care transformă raportajul despre granițe într-o meditație despre apartenență și reuniune familială. Este o lectură despre costurile tăcerii și despre curajul de a privi înapoi pentru a putea merge înainte.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526652560
ISBN-10: 1526652560
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 236 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Circus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte celor care doresc să înțeleagă realitatea umană din spatele titlurilor de știri despre migrație. Scattered oferă o perspectivă unică, de insider, asupra modului în care deplasarea forțată marchează generații întregi. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a crizei refugiaților prin ochii unei jurnaliste care își descoperă propriul trecut, transformând o temă politică aridă într-o poveste emoționantă despre familie și supraviețuire.


Descriere

**Longlisted for the Bread & Roses Award 2025**
**A Guardian book to look out for in 2024**

'An exceptional book: a meditation on family; an interrogation of movement and borders; a reflection on how someone can become separated from their own personal history; and an argument that it is never too late to reconnect with what was lost' SALLY HAYDEN

'A compelling story from a gifted storyteller . In a moment where refugees are often talked about but rarely heard from, her voice breaks through' GARY YOUNGE


A staggering investigation into the costs and consequences of displacement, from a young woman uniquely placed to explore the refugee experience and its aftershocks


In 2015, Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report from the frontlines of the refugee crisis. When she returned to London, and discussed what she had seen with her parents, their response surprised her: didn't she remember being a refugee herself?

Aamna was faced with a reality she had been outrunning for nearly two decades: that her parents had been refugees of the Somali civil war; and that her arrival in the UK aged seven had been preceded by an early childhood in a refugee camp, followed by years of displacement and desperation - as her family, sometimes together but often separated, fought for a place to call home.

For the first time, Aamna's parents told her their story: of the lives they had built in the newly independent Somalia, and the shattering effects of civil war that followed. From London, she travelled to Somalia, a homecoming to a place that had never been home; before retracing her parents' flight to Kenya, and the Kakuma refugee camp - the site of a very present refugee crisis, now three decades in the making.

Scattered is a staggering investigation into the costs and consequences of displacement, from a young woman uniquely placed to explore the refugee experience and its aftershocks. A powerful reportage, it is also an epic story of returns and reunions; and a joyful celebration of family and belonging.

'The only way out of the crisis of exclusion sweeping across the Atlantic Ocean is storytelling . In so luminously recounting the story of her family Mohdin achieves an imaginative breakthrough that everyone should read' SAMUEL MOYN, Professor of Law and History at Yale University

Recenzii

Aamna Mohdin is a gifted storyteller with a compelling story in which resilience and humanity triumph over tragedy and displacement. She is a trusted, honest and at times humorous guide on a journey that is fraught, brave and at times dangerous. In a moment where refugees are often talked about but rarely heard from, her voice breaks through not because it is loud but because it is lyrical
A brave, powerful, and deeply necessary book. Aamna Mohdin excavates her past with grace, honesty, and unflinching courage - exploring survivor's guilt, identity, mental health, and the resilience of the Somali diaspora. A vital contribution to the Black British literary canon
The startling honesty and intimacy of this depiction of one family's chaotic quest to find sanctuary feels fresh and important
Journalist Aamna Mohdin explores her Somali family's refugee experience across continents in her wonderful new book Scattered
An absorbingly written account of exile combined with journalistic research and rigour. Aamna is such a thoughtful writer, and her voice, and this testimony, offers an essential bridge between discourse on migration in Britain and the lived experiences of many Britons, which are too often disregarded
The only way out of the crisis of exclusion sweeping across the Atlantic Ocean is storytelling that overcomes apathy and scapegoating in favour of empathy and hospitality. In so luminously recounting the story of her family, and the exodus from Somalia to the United Kingdom she and her parents have lived, Aamna Mohdin achieves an imaginative breakthrough that everyone should read
Reporting for the Guardian from the Calais refugee camp, Mohdin felt a jolt of recognition: she had once been a child refugee herself. From there she travels to Somalia, the country her parents fled, and back into her own past.
Powerful and evocative
Mohdin's intimate portrayal of her family's quest for sanctuary feels especially important in this moment ... Such stories are vital to foster understanding of the causes of the so-called 'asylum crisis', and the impact of violent border policies