WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history. In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. ‘Hi sister Sally, we need your help,’ it read. ‘We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.’ More messages followed from more refugees. They told stories of enslavement and trafficking, torture and murder, tuberculosis and sexual abuse. And they revealed something else: that they were all incarcerated as a direct result of European policy. From there began a staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa. This book follows the shocking experiences of refugees seeking sanctuary, but it also surveys the bigger picture: the negligence of NGOs and corruption within the United Nations. The economics of the twenty-first-century slave trade and the EU’s bankrolling of Libyan militias. The trials of people smugglers, the frustrations of aid workers, the loopholes refugees seek out and the role of social media in crowdfunding ransoms. Who was accountable for the abuse? Where were the people finding solutions? Why wasn’t it being widely reported? At its heart, this is a book about people who have made unimaginable choices, risking everything to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sally HaydenEAN: 9780008445577COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 740 gHEIGHT: 240 cm
PUBLISHED BY: HarperCollins PublishersDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, HISTORY / Africa / North, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, SOCIAL SCIENCE / RefugeesWIDTH: 159 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Libya, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Refugees and political asylum, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties
‘Journalism of the most urgent kind’Financial Times
‘The triumph of the book is to inject a renewed urgency and moral clarity into a story most people think they are familiar with’The Times
‘[A] devastating, moving and damning account of one of the tragedies of our age … Hayden never flinches in documenting human nature at its worst – its best is shown here, too’Irish Independent
‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read … I hope that Sally Hayden's work can help to begin a radically new and overdue discussion about Europe's approach to migration and borders’Sally Rooney
‘Brilliant, hugely important reportage on the ongoing situation many of us try to tune out’Marian Keyes
‘What a devastating book about the catastrophic inhumanity of European migration policy. It’s a journalistic masterpiece. Shattering stories. It absolutely demands to be read … Essential’Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers
‘Extremely good’Mark O’Connell, author of Notes from an Apocalypse
‘Compassionate, brave, enraging, beautifully written and incredibly well researched. Hayden exposes the truth’Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
‘One of the most important testaments of this awful time in life's history. It is both heartbreaking and stoic’Edna O'Brien, author of The Little Red Chairs
‘This vivid chronicle … may make you cry, but it should make you angry … A blistering rebuke’Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor of Channel 4 News
‘A veritable masterclass in journalism … The most riveting, detailed and damning account ever written on the deadliest of migration routes’Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Sunday Times
‘Heart-stopping … A vital book for anyone who wants to feel what it means to be human in the 21st century’Fintan O’Toole, author of We Don’t Know Ourselves
Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned, won the 2022 Orwell Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford. She is currently the Africa correspondent for the Irish Times, and has also worked with VICE News, CNN International, the Financial Times, TIME, BBC, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New York Times, Channel 4 News, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera and Newsweek, among others. A law graduate with an MSc in international politics, she has twice sat on the committee deciding the winner of Transparency International's Anti-Corruption Award. In 2019, she was included on the Forbes '30 Under 30' list of media in Europe.
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history. In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. ‘Hi sister Sally, we need your help,’ it read. ‘We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.’ More messages followed from more refugees. They told stories of enslavement and trafficking, torture and murder, tuberculosis and sexual abuse. And they revealed something else: that they were all incarcerated as a direct result of European policy. From there began a staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa. This book follows the shocking experiences of refugees seeking sanctuary, but it also surveys the bigger picture: the negligence of NGOs and corruption within the United Nations. The economics of the twenty-first-century slave trade and the EU’s bankrolling of Libyan militias. The trials of people smugglers, the frustrations of aid workers, the loopholes refugees seek out and the role of social media in crowdfunding ransoms. Who was accountable for the abuse? Where were the people finding solutions? Why wasn’t it being widely reported? At its heart, this is a book about people who have made unimaginable choices, risking everything to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sally HaydenEAN: 9780008445577COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 740 gHEIGHT: 240 cm
PUBLISHED BY: HarperCollins PublishersDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, HISTORY / Africa / North, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, SOCIAL SCIENCE / RefugeesWIDTH: 159 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Libya, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Refugees and political asylum, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties
Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned, won the 2022 Orwell Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford. She is currently the Africa correspondent for the Irish Times, and has also worked with VICE News, CNN International, the Financial Times, TIME, BBC, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New York Times, Channel 4 News, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera and Newsweek, among others. A law graduate with an MSc in international politics, she has twice sat on the committee deciding the winner of Transparency International's Anti-Corruption Award. In 2019, she was included on the Forbes '30 Under 30' list of media in Europe.
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A fantastic book. The moment I started reading I was pulled into a gripping storyline that constantly had me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t put it down even for a moment.
As daar nou al ooit ’n onwaarskynlike liefde geskets is in ’n romanse, is dit die verhouding tussen Danika en Dewald. Dit kon skaars slegter begin, met sy ondeurdagte opmerking by die begrafnis van Danika se man. Maar dit is sy grysblou oë, en nie net die beskuldiging wat hy uitgespreek het nie, wat haar ry.
Die storielyn fokus sterk op skuld, aanspreeklikheid en die invloed van ander se oordeel oor situasies. Mens kan kers opsteek by Dewald, met sy nugtere uitkyk. Dit was egter juis sy geneigdheid om jammer te kry en te vergoed vir onreg, wat ’n tydelike wig tussen hulle ingedryf het.
Ek het nog nooit die voorreg van ’n ski-vakansie gehad nie, daarom het ek dit baie geniet saam met Danika en haar familie. Net genoeg inligting om die storielyn te ondersteun en Danika se vertwyfeling finaal stop te sit.
Ek het vinnig weer gekyk na hierdie skrywer se vorige twee Romanzas, Om die sterre te raak, en Waag en wen, en ek voel daar is ’n duidelike groei in haar skryfstyl. Onvoorwaardelike liefde verdien ’n ekstra ster van my kant af.
Die Romanza in die Moderne subgenre, is uitgegee deur Lapa Uitgewers.
In onlangse Romanzas was daar ’n paar boere waaroor lesers en heldinne geswymel het. Malene Breytenbach skryf toe ook ’n boer in haar nuwe Romanza in, maar met die verskil dat hierdie boer die skurk is. ’n Angswekkende en afstootlike teisteraar wat vir Kira Louw noop om ’n pos as verpleegster op ’n luukste passasierskip te aanvaar in ’n poging om van hom ontslae te raak.
Dit bring dan ook die ware held in die prentjie, die aantreklike skeepsdokter, Albert Dorell. Struikelblokke is ’n gegewe in die romanse genre, maar die skrywer vermy een wat alte dikwels opduik, naamlik ’n held wat vooraf besluit het, om welke rede ookal, dat hy nie gaan trou nie. Sy kom met ’n vars invalshoek, naamlik die vereiste dat ’n vrou vir Albert moet kan aanpas by ’n gegoede en tradisievaste familie op Malta. Anders as sy pa en sy voormalige Suid-Afrikaanse vrou, wie se huwelik nie die toets deurstaan het nie.
Die feit dat aantreklike mans en vrouens gewoonlik té veel aandag kry van die teenoorgestelde geslag, maak ook telkens deel uit van die storielyn van Seenimf en die skeepsdokter. Die skip en die bedrywighede dien as agtergrond, maar oorheers nie die storielyn nie. ’n Oulike ekstra is die pittige karakter, Lee-Anne in wie Kira ’n bondgenoot vind. “Jy’t nie vir my koebaai gesê nie, toe’s ek nogal aangevat in my binneste, jy weet.” (p.106) Ek het vir Lee-Anne baie geniet, so ook die storie as geheel. Daar was oorgenoeg onverwagte wendings om die aandag te behou, alvorens die uiteindelike gelukkige einde aanmeld.
Haar voorneme om nie weer betrokke te raak nie, swig voor 'n aantreklike boer
’n Jaar nadat haar verlowing misluk het, koop Marguerite van Wyk Die Blou Turksvy, ’n besige winkel op haar grootworddorp, Viljoensvlei. Sy het groot planne om dit uit te brei en vaste voornemens om “eerder kaalvoet oor die naaste berg (te loop) as om ooit weer die gedagte te kry om haar aan ’n man te verbind.” (p. 11)
Op Engels is daar ’n uitdrukking wat lui: famous last words. Dit is wat mens spoedig van haar voorneme kan sê wanneer Bernard Visagie op die toneel verskyn. Die aantrekkingskrag tussen dié twee gee ook aanleiding tot ’n interessante dimensie in die storielyn, want dit word duidelik dat daar ’n vete van meer as dertig jaar bestaan tussen die Van Wyks en die Visagies. Die skrywer hou mens aan die wonder daaroor, terwyl Bernard en Marguerite hulle eie stryd het met hulle gevoelens vir mekaar.
Die oulike titel kom by monde van die einste boer, Bernard: “Miskien gee iemand jou eendag ’n rede om te bly.” (p.117) Die held kry volpunte by my, ’n man uit een stuk, standvastig en met goeie maniere. Die romanse is uitgegee in die sub-genre, Plaas, en het goed daarin geslaag om my aandag te behou. Ek het juis deesdae so ’n swakte vir boere en boere se vrouens!