Calamities of exile

Description:

The three narratives by Lawrence Weschler here joined together were conceived from the start as a sort of triptych: three tales about basically decent expatriates (the first an Iraqi, the second a Czech, the third an Afrikaner), each of whom tries to do the right thing with regard to the totalitarian regime holding sway over his homeland - the thing we readers, too, might have done, if only we were much more courageous than we are - only to end up thoroughly wracked and bollixed.

subjects: Political activists,  Biography,  Oedipus (greek mythology),  Expatriation,  Exiles,  Aliens

People: Jan Kavan (1946-),  Kanan Makiya,  Breyten Breytenbach