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Winner of the prestigious John Florio Prize for Italian
Translation; A solid contribution to a rising genre: the
noncombatant's war memoir - Kirkus Review; First time that we see
the war through the eyes of a novelist and a poet; Royalties to be
donated to a charity providing housing for refugees in the
highlands of Afghanistan March 2002: the repatriation of Afghan
refugees begins. It is one of the largest migrations in history, an
exodus of biblical proportions, yet this time people are not
fleeing, but returning to their own country, where they find
demolished houses, mined fields and no water supplies. Edoardo
Albinati spent four months in Afghanistan working in the UNHCR
centres where the tide of returnees was at its peak. He travelled
around the cities of Kabul, Kandahar, the deserts and the rural
areas in search of solutions for the reintegration of the refugees.
This book - written with the zest of a diarist and peopled by a
myriad unforgettable faces and stories - is the daily account of
what he saw, heard and did (or tried to do) while hundreds of
thousands of people struggling for survival rolled past in
overcrowded trucks. It is the critical, impassioned testimony of a
gigantic collective effort whose outcome is still highly uncertain.
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