A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced
it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel
writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor.
'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.'
EDMUND DE WAAL 'Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of colourful
tales, beautifully weaving history and travel accounts.' ANDREA
WULF, author of The Invention of Nature 'A volume for our times.'
SARA WHEELER, THE SPECTATOR This is the story of three unheralded
nineteenth-century dissidents, whose lives were profoundly shaped
by the winds of empire, nationalism and autocracy that continue to
blow strongly today: Louise Michel, a leader of the radical
socialist government known as the Paris Commune; Dinuzulu
kaCetshwayo, an enemy of British colonialism in Zululand; and Lev
Shternberg, a militant campaigner against Russian tsarism. In
Exiles, William Atkins travels to their islands of banishment -
Michel's New Caledonia in the South Pacific, Dinuzulu's St Helena
in the South Atlantic, and Shternberg's Sakhalin off the Siberian
coast - in a bid to understand how exile shaped them and the people
among whom they were exiled. In doing so he illuminates the
solidarities that emerged between the exiled subject, on the one
hand, and the colonised subject, on the other. Rendering these
figures and the places they were forced to occupy in shimmering
detail, Atkins reveals deeply human truths about displacement,
colonialism and what it means to have and to lose a home. Occupying
the fertile zone where history, biography and travel writing meet,
Exiles is a masterpiece of imaginative empathy. 'A fascinating
study of exile and its effects.' OBSERVER '[Atkins] is humane,
humble, and empathetic . . . beautiful and moving.' ILYA KAMINSKY,
author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa 'An incredible,
brilliant act of retrieval.' PHILIP HOARE, author of Albert &
the Whale 'Thrilling.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A finely crafted and
lyrical meditation.' TLS 'Gracefully written . . . Brilliant.' THE
ECONOMIST 'Rarely has a book been more timely.' HISTORY TODAY ***
Read The Moor and The Immeasureable World for more award-winning
writing from William Atkins
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