6/28/2023 0 Comments Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck![]() ![]() Touchingly, Richard uses Classical and literary names as mnemonics to remember the foreign names of his new friends: Apollo, Tristan, the thunderbolt-hurler. There’s Rashid, from Nigeria, whose village is attacked and set on fire by Boko Haram: his neighbours and family are killed, and he is forced to go on the run to Niger. That life ends when the civil war begins and hundreds of African immigrants settled in Libya are rounded up by soldiers, put on a dinghy and set afloat in the Mediterranean. There’s Awad, born in Ghana, but sent to Libya aged seven to live with his father. ![]() Science and Technical Research and DevelopmentĪs Richard begins to show up at the centres where these asylum seekers are held and moved around until their applications are decided, and to interview them about how they came to be seeking refuge in Germany, a fractured mosaic emerges of the individual lives behind the statistics and the journalistic discourse of “hordes” and “swamping”. ![]() Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives. ![]() Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance. ![]()
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