From the author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Calamities of Exile combines three gripping narratives that afford a sort of double CAT scan into the natures of both modern totalitarianism and timeless exile.
Annotation: These are stories of average men who are unable to return to their native countries, including Kanan Makiya, who criticized Saddam Hussein in his book "Republic of Fear"; and South African poet Breyten Breytenbach, who was imprisoned for revolutionary activities.
