There are 35
million child refugees in the world today; over a million children were born in
flight, in exile, in camps. While a great deal has been written about the suffering
of those who are fleeing persecution, displacement, hunger and war, in Nadir
Laura Fusco attempts to record the voices of the refugees themselves,
especially the women and the children.
Nadir is a book about desert
caravans, dangerous sea-crossings and desperate marches, about fences, camps, detention
centres, squats and underpasses. It is a portrait of ‘a crowd of a hundred
solitudes’, the wretched of the earth, the defeated who refuse to accept
defeat.