Even if suppressed during waking hours, the smells, sounds and sights of home invade their dreams. It also goes to explain the difficulty refugees face in settling into their adopted country, and the constant yearning for ‘home’, often when that version of home no longer exists. The nuanced description of their lives drives home their daily emasculation and humiliation, and powerfully personalises the present-day ‘issue’ of refugees the world is struggling with. However these men – once entitled members of the establishment – now eke out nondescript livelihoods as waiters, gardeners, delivery men, small shop owners. Having escaped death, one assumes, indeed expects, them to be grateful for whatever they get, along with “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. The description of life as refugees is both fascinating and poignant. They arrive in America as refugees but because they were on the side ‘aided’ by the Americans, they are granted residency and set up for a new life.
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