Sunjeev Sahota is the author of Ours are the Streets and The Year of the Runaways. One of his top ten books about migrants, as shared at the Guardian:Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus LishRead about another book on the list.
This is the story of Zou Lei, a Chinese-Muslim illegal immigrant, and Brad Skinner, a disillusioned soldier, “stop-lossed” from Iraq. Zou, whose name means “thunder”, shows great resilience; it’s Brad who struggles to cope. The book is full of detail, sometimes upsetting, often beautiful in the way it gives a scene life: “He came towards her, his arms whispering on the body of his parka.”
--Marshal Zeringue
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