City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World'S Largest Refugee Camp [Audiobook] download free by Ben Rawlence
- Listen audiobook: City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World'S Largest Refugee Camp
- Author: Ben Rawlence
- Release date: 2016/6/23
- Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781846275876
- Rating: 7.05 of 10
- Votes: 89
- Review by: Alexa Rowan
- Review rating: 7.68 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/19
- Duration: 4H53M24S in 256 kbps (80 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Apple Lossless, TTA, WAV, MP3, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, Shorten (compression ZIP, EML, TGZ, RZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 400
- Includes a PDF summary of 36 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 27M54S (7.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and schoolgirl Kheyro, whose future hangs upon her education. In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp and to sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped there. Lucid, vivid and illuminating, here is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dadaab home.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Refugees & Political Asylum, Reportage & Collected Journalism
- Download servers: Torrent, Dropbox, Volafile, 4Shared, Mediafire, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, BitShare, JustCloud, S42Transfer. Compressed in ZIP, EML, TGZ, RZ, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 20.82 USD
- Dimensions: 153x233x27mm
- Weight: 469g
- Printed by: Portobello Books Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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