The Abandoned Persons Tale by Olivia Laing

Title	:	The Abandoned Persons Tale
Author	:	Olivia Laing
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ISBN	:	-
Language	:	English
Format Type	:	Kindle Edition
Number of Pages	:	10
Publication	:	First published February 5, 2018

This story is taken from Refugee Tales: Volume II - modelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. In these stories, poets and novelists create a space in which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and listening becomes an act of welcome.

Olivia Laing - Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. She’s the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City, which has been translated into 17 languages and sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. Her collected essays, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, were published in 2020.Her first novel, Crudo, is a real time account of the turbulent summer of 2017. It was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and a New York Times notable book of 2018 and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2019 it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.Laing’s writing about art culture appears in the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and frieze, among many other publications. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. She’s ...

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