Research Catalog

Title

Coming back : diary of a mission to Afghanistan / Edoardo Albinati ; translated by Howard Curtis.

Author

Albinati, Edoardo

Publication

London : Hesperus Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xii, 233 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"March 2002: the repatriation of Afghan refugees begins. It is one of the largest migrations in history, an exodus of biblical proportions, yet this time people are not fleeing, but returning to their own country, where they find demolished houses, mined fields and no water supplies." "Edoardo Albinati spent four months in Afghanistan working in the UNHCR centres where the tide of returnees was at its peak. He traveled around Kabul, Kandahar, the deserts and the rural areas in search of solutions to the problems of reintegrating refugees. The book - written with the zest of a diarist and peopled by a myriad unforgettable faces and stories - is the daily account of what he saw, heard and did (or tried to do) while hundreds of thousands of people struggling for survival rolled past in overcrowded trucks. It is a critical, impassioned reportage on a gigantic collective effort whose outcome is still highly uncertain."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Ritorno. English

Alternative Title

Ritorno.

Subject

• Albinati, Edoardo > Travel > Afghanistan
• United Nations Volunteers > Biography
• 2000-2099
• Return migration > Afghanistan
• Afghanistan > Social conditions > 21st century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Diaries
• Diaries.

Note

• Translated from the Italian. Originally published as: Il ritorno. Milano : Arnoldo Mondadori, 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Coming Back -- April 3 -- May 71 -- June 131 -- July 183.

ISBN

1843919044

OCLC

• 55899892
• SCSB-10816543

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library