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Violence
Some
Moderate; the violence of migration and the dangers of European borders
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Significant; the psychological weight of displacement, identity, and the costs of the journey to somewhere safer
What this book is about
Helon Habila's novel follows a young Nigerian man in Berlin whose encounters with other African migrants become a novel about the experience of displacement — the journeys taken, the identities remade at borders, and what it means to be from a place you can no longer fully inhabit. Habila writes with the precision of a journalist and the ambition of a literary novelist.
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Immigration and refugee themes
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