Review: The Politics of Exile

The Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the book that would hunt me for long...reads like a beautifully narrated novel but it's not a fiction and maybe that's the reason why it will hunt my thoughts more. I don't know how to review this book so I have shared three reviews/statements that have said closer to what I felt while reading this extraordinary book on Bosnia War and its aftermath:

i. "An extraordinary work that I found hard to put down each night, and whose emotions, echoes and affects disturbed my sleep and days…a very fine and powerful work of art that glows dangerously in the hands." - (Anthony Burke, Associate Professor, International and Political Studies, UNSW Canberra, Australia)

ii. "Elizabeth Dauphinee's moving book is so engaging because it is so self-aware, so achingly candid. Here is the book to read if you want to get even a glimpse of the impossible choices that one has to make when one becomes one of the world's "displaced." This book will stick to your ribs." - (Cynthia Enloe, Author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War)

iii. "This very thought provoking book challenges the notion that the injustice of war violence and misery of others can be grasped by a detached, rational scholar." - (Maja Korac, School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London)

I would recommend any fiction reader and non-fiction readers, scholars of academia to read this book.

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