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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp

byBen Rawlence

The Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it’s a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a "nursery for terrorists"; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. The research behind City of Thorns draws together archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events to show how the central story changed over time. The result links the nine lives in the world’s largest refugee camp with debates in history and literary collections, showing where public institutions and private experience meet.

Publisher

Picador

Publication date

Jan 03, 2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9781250118738