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"[A] remarkable book…. Like Dadaab itself, the story has no conclusion. Iti is a portrait, beautifully and moving painted. And it is more than that. At a time when newspapers are filled with daily images of refugees arriving in boats on Europe’s shores, when politicians and governments grapple with solutions to migration and erect ever larger walls and fences, it is an important reminder that a vast majority of the world’s refugees never get as far as a boat or a border of the developed world.”―The New York Times Book Review"[An] ambitious, morally urgent new book."―The New York Times “Magisterial….We see Dadaab through an accumulation of vivid impressions….[The book] moves like a thriller.”―Los Angeles Times“The most absorbing book in recent memory about life in refugee camps… Mr. Rawlence’s major feat is stripping away the anonymity that so often is attached to the word “refugee” by delving deeply into the lives of nine people in the camp. By doing so, he transforms its denizens from faceless victims into three-dimensional human beings. Along the way, Dadaab emerges from the ever-present heat and dust to become much more than a refugee camp. It is a real, if very peculiar, city.”―Howard French, The Wall Street Journal"In light of the contemporary crisis, City of Thorns serves as a cautionary tale. Rawlence's portrait of nine Dadaab residents offers a stark counterpoint to the rhetoric that too often speaks for refugees....This is a vital book at a critical moment in global history."―Minneapolis Star Tribune“City of Thorns…brilliantly details the intimate histories of residents of Dadaab, a massive, United Nations-maintained camp in Kenya for people stuck in legal limbo after escaping from sectarian violence in Somalia.”―Chicago Tribune“Rawlence...is more than able to move the reader, introducing us to some of the people in Dadaab in his exceptional first book.”―Newsday“Gripping.”―The Economist"City of Thorns is revelatory read. It is a lesson in politics, geography, economics, and humanity. Ben Rawlence's book will give readers the same insight into Dadaab that Katherine Boo gave readers into Mumbai with her book Beyond the Beautiful Forevers. This is an important book that will open your eyes and your heart.”―Everyday eBook"[Rawlence] has done a remarkable job, bringing home the reality behind those statistics by telling us what life is really like inside one of those camps... Rawlence's description of the camp economy is fascinating and shocking... A masterful account. Next time someone refers derisively to a 'bunch of migrants,' get them to read this book."―The Sunday Times (London) “That Rawlence has managed to capture so much of this unlikely city’s chaos and confusion in a narrative that is very nearly impossible to put down is an achievement in reportage that few have matched. Dadaab’s half a million residents could not have asked for a better champion than this researcher for Human Rights Watch, and while the facts and figures he shares are stunning, it is the nine individuals whose stories he focuses on who give the book its heart…Comparisons to Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2012) are spot-on.”―Booklist (starred review)“With remarkable intimacy, Rawlence reveals the humanity of these people in crisis who must struggle to survive in the overcrowded camp....A significant, timely, and gloomy tale that reveals the human costs of a growing world crisis.” ―Kirkus Reviews“By combining his own experiences with interviews with residents of Dadaab, [Rawlence] makes the human rights crisis-rarely covered in the media-vivid and immediate for readers....This is a compelling examination of the tragedy of a place where one 'can only survive...by imagining a life elsewhere.'”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)"City of Thorns is a powerful and timely reminder of how unresolved conflicts, from Somalia to Syria, have contributed to the unprecedented global refugee crisis. Ben Rawlence's intimate, vivid portrait of the forgotten refugees in Dadaab is a much needed effort to close the humanity gap between the West and the rest. A must-read."―Kim Ghattas, author of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power“City of Thorns is a brilliant if haunting book that reveals just what it means to be numbered among the countless tens of thousands of refugees whose existence has been shattered by conflict, who survive with nothing, cast adrift from tradition and security, obliged to cobble together shadow lives from the detritus of memory and lost dreams. It is at once both an intimate story of redemption and hope, a prayer for the innocent, and a damning universal indictment of all those whose monstrous acts and vainglorious ambitions unleash the dogs of war.”―Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest“The most important book I've read in a long time. Not only does it make plain modern geopolitics, and what makes a refugee, it holds deeper truths about humanity and the system we have designed to preserve it when all seems lost. I worked in these camps at the height of this crisis. I needed this book. As we face a world with more people displaced from their homes than any ever before, City of Thorns is essential reading.”―Dr. James Maskalyk, author of Six Months in Sudan“Where once writers made myths, now increasingly it’s the writer’s job to unmake the myths created by modern media. City of Thorns is a clear-eyed account of people living in limbo and a testament both to human frailty and human resilience. By recounting the stories of a few Rawlence sheds light on all the stories of all in the refugees in all the camps that will never be told. As timely as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring―this book should be required reading.”―Aminatta Forna, author of The Memory of Love“At a time when West governments are obsessing over migrant flows, City of Thorns offers unique insights into what prompts people to abandon their ancestral homes in the first place and the dreams that send them questing for a better life. Researching this book can't have been easy. Ben Rawlence is to be congratulated not just for his accessible writing style, but for his modesty, pluck and determination.”―Michela Wrong, author of In the Footseps of Mr. Kurtz and Borderlines“To us they are just numbers, but refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants are names, lives, sons, daughters, lovers, people full of hope and grit. In this book Ben Rawlence has given us a complex tapestry of refugee life without romanticising it. It is like a Brueghel picture in words. An eloquent testimony by a writer with heart.”―Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Refusing the Veil and The Settler's Cookbook"City of Thorns elegantly portrays a place and its people at the very fringes of our society, yet also at the heart of its problems. Written with great integrity and insight, this is an urgent, important book that needs to be read. Through tireless and empathetic reportage Rawlence has worked for 5 years to give Dadaab a voice. Now we should listen."―Owen Sheers, author of I Saw a Man“Compassionate and powerful, this book gets to the heart of the tragedy of Somalia, and the struggles that face those displaced by war and want in eastern Africa. To better understand the current crisis of migration in our modern world, start here.”―David Anderson, professor of African History

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About the Author

BEN RAWLENCE is a former researcher for Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa. He is the author of Radio Congo and has written for a wide range of publications, including The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and Prospect. He lives in the Black Mountains in Wales with his wife and daughter.

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Product details

Hardcover: 400 pages

Publisher: Picador; First Edition edition (January 5, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9781250067630

ISBN-13: 978-1250067630

ASIN: 1250067634

Product Dimensions:

5.8 x 1.3 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.6 out of 5 stars

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Excellent, interesting, and easy to read. I'm a teacher in a school with many Somali refugee students and while taking Somali classes through community ed. the teacher (who was from Dadaab camp) recommended it. I think the book and Rawlence's experiences with the people in the book help most of us who have minimal knowledge of the situation gain some perspective on the refugee experience and the many challenges we never think about. It's hard to imagine growing up and living in an area the geographical size of New Orleans with 400,000+ others and no building permits near war torn areas where no one wants you, not the Kenyan government or the largely controlled territories of Al-Shabaab. Google image Dadaab to get an idea of what the camps look like. If you want to gain some perspective on the situation in Somalia and refugee experiences in general, this is a must read!

I completed this book left with a feeling of profound sadness. This was an eye-opening account of what these people endure on a daily basis - war surrounding them, lack of food, privacy, the elements, and stuck right in the middle of the inevitable tug of war regarding politics. This should be required reading. Just this week my church sponsored a family of 13, I believe, who had been living in a refugee camp for 19 years. They now have housing thanks to members of the congregation who answered the call for assistance. The culture shock will be something they will all have to come to terms with, but I can only imagine their joy.

I have worked with resettled refugees in the US and NZ, and with war-affected families in Uganda, so I am very familiar with the memories they cannot escape. Ben Rawlence does an excellent job of capturing the rawness of life in Dadaab. Especially in this time during which unknowledgeable citizens spout off judgmental stereotypes about refugees, this book can enlighten readers about the terrible conditions they face.

This is the first review I have ever written on any anything. This book has changed me and made my world larger in understanding who Jesus says my neighbor is. I love the way this book was written, it does give you facts, but more importantly it gives you real people living in this nightmare and trying to survive and hold on to hope. It made me cry for the horrendous acts of oppression and evil people are capable of doing to each other without a conscience of what their doing.It made me realize that people without hope are people in danger of committing horrible acts against humanity to survive. I gave this this book 5 stars because I can never be the same after reading it. Being changed for the good of my fellow man is what makes any book worth reading.

A presentation by Mr. Rawlence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival motivated our book club to select this book. It's an excellent work on the plight of Somalian migrants to Kenya in the biggest refugee camp in the world. It also illuminates the dilemma of immigrants and refugees worldwide It should be read by everyone who is concerned about this crisis of humanity which has been invisible to the western press. It must certainly be read by all European and African policymakers on immigration.

I will briefly add my praises to those of [almost] everyone else. We simply cannot understand the world we live in without an intimate and heartfelt acquaintance with the material covered in this book. There may be other ways of acquiring this understanding, but this is among the very best. We come to know and care about these people, their lives, and their interactions--a necessity, of course, if we are to understand ourselves. Absolutely superb.

Ben Rawlence makes the life in the Dadaab camp and the characters of its occupants come alive with incredible descriptions and attention to detail. Reading in the comfort of ones home it is difficult to come to terms with the difficulties and complications of weather and politics that the inhabitants must endure. Although while reading it was tempting to give up, by the end, although feeling helpless to aid them, I was satisfied to have followed these resilient people through their stories and devoutly wish that politics, religion and weather will allow these people to return to their homes in peace. I judged three stars rather than four as the book is a very demanding read.

For me, it is hard for me to read on my iPhone with the Kindle app, but it is still an interesting book. I would buy it in paper form instead, though. I think it is easier to flip real paper pages back and forth than to flip virtual pages back and forth. That is just my preference and has nothing to do with the content other than I like to go back and look at the maps as I read about the various places. I imagine that my students and/or their families have had similar experiences to the people in this book and I think it helps me to understand them better. I wish everyone would read it whether they work with refugees or not.

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