Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

Name: Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages
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ISBN: 9780857201188

ISBN-10: 0857201182

ISBN-13: 9780857201188

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sophie Hardach

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Mehmet's first view of Europe is a vast, thick carpet of digested pasta. Swimming through sewage towards traffickers on the Italian shore, he parts Europe's soft defences with his bony chest before collapsing on the sand. Waiting for him is a truck, officially loaded with crates of tomatoes: the sunny taste of Italy. Unofficially, secretly, illegally, the truck is loaded with Mehmet and his fellow refugees: the sunny taste of Kurdistan. Mehmet is unloaded in Germany, where this plucky, unlikely hero must plead his case for a bright new life in Europe, and political asylum. Examined by dentists and doctors, he's declared to be about thirteen and is assigned a date of birth. Mehmet can't…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Limited
Publication date: 4/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.50" long
Language: English

Sophie Hardach is the author of two novels, The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages, about Kurdish refugees, and Of Love and Other Wars, about pacifists during World War Two. Also a journalist, she worked as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in Tokyo, Paris and Milan and has written for a number of publications including the Atlantic, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.