Synopsis
Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book of the Year
'This powerful study looks behind the statistics and political slogans to reveal the human face of the refugee crisis.' Guardian
A mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks ‘what else could I do?’ A runaway teenager who comes of age on the streets and in abandoned buildings. A student...
Details
24 January 2019304 pages
9781509815630Imprint: Picador
Reviews
[Lights in the Distance] calmly portrays the reality of life for people trying to enter a Europe that largely doesn’t want them . . . If knowledge is the foundation of action, then [Trilling] has done us a great service by turning masses and numbers into people whom we like, who we can see are like us.New Statesman
Brilliantly researched and written . . . Trilling [brings] his reader as close as possible to the actual circumstances of those who have found their way to Calais, or to Catania in Sicily or to London or to Athens, only to find themselves condemned to occupy space, rather than live.Observer
This powerful study looks behind the statistics and political slogans to reveal the human face of the refugee crisis.Guardian
Compelling . . . the author’s mastery of the details of his subject shines through.Financial Times
