I’ve just finished this book – it only took me two days, I couldn’t put it down. It’s so well written. You can see from the blurb on the back cover what its about. Its a fabulous insight into what it must be like to experience the horrific trauma of having to flee ones home and try to find refuge and start a new life in a completely different culture and country. The mental anguish of loosing a son and the way it affects the mind. Quite harrowing but compelling.
It made me think of the mindset of some groups of people in England today and the racism and bigotry that seems to abound. If these people had to go through what refugees have to go through, I wonder what they would think then? A country as rich as ours, should be made to give shelter and comfort to those less well off. It made me realise how very very lucky I am andI just wish my country was more welcoming It makes me so ashamed of my country when I see how we herd refugees into detention/immigration centres that are worse than prisons.
I wrote this back in 2015 and things haven’t improved.
Totally agree.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if governments weren’t MADE to help, but human compassion and kindness meant that there would be an automatic caring response.
It would. I knew Id written about refugees in the blog a while ago. it was in 2015 and I found it and have put a link to it on the Beekeeper of Aleppo. Not much has changed. People can be so selfish.