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Child I

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Child I
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Steve Tasane
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 130
ISBN/Barcode 9780571337835
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
Children / Juvenile
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 3 May 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A group of undocumented children with letters for names, are stuck living in a refugee camp, with stories to tell but no papers to prove them. As they try to forge a new family amongst themselves, they also long to keep memories of their old identities alive. Will they be heard and believed? And what will happen to them if they aren't?

Author Biography

I am the son of a refugee, but that is not the reason why I wrote Child I. When I was a child I was a recipient of free school dinners, and charity bags full of toys and suchlike at Christmastime. We were a charity case and I had a foreign-sounding name - Tasane - and difficulty speaking English well. But in some ways, the worst thing of all, was that my father then deserted me and my three brothers, and my mother. We were a broken home. I hated being a 'broken' child. I grew up intensely envious of my friends who had a father. I grew up feeling the same otherness that my father must have felt as a refugee arriving in the UK. Child I is not my story. But it draws together the links between my own shattered upbringing and that of young refugee children growing up in today's crisis-defined world. Nothing has really changed. We just want to belong. We just want to not be hungry. We just want to be able to laugh and play. We want to be. And that is why I wrote Child I.