Asylum by John Hughes By John Hughes Paperback 1742588263 9781742588261 Asylum by John Hughes Just because you cant see the chains doesnt mean they dont exist. In the Sanctuary, two robed men cut the hair of clients who have been called to pass through the White or Black Door. Along with their hair, the clients shed stories: of the horrors of their past, the Place theyve inhabited since their escape, and what lies beyond the Doors. These stories are inscribed as Legends, but do they record a vision of Paradise or Hell? This allegory, echoing Kafka, illuminates the stark terror of the modern age, marked by a border in constant shift between gods and men, truth and deception, freedom and constraint, memory and forgetting, revealing a world whose essence is its hiddenness a world that hides, not in darkness, but in the light. What I will tell you now is only guesswork. Because when a person is called they just disappear and are never seen again. We assume that their case is finally being heard, that they have moved on from here to the next stage. You seem to think of it as something dreadful, but its why we came here after all. We came here of our own free will, you must remember that, and we are free to leave at any time. [Subject: Fiction]

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When the absence of compassion in almost all Australian public discourse about asylum seekers hit me with such force I found it impossible to resist The book I ve finally written is some way from that book I started to write in Venice almost three years ago It s grown into a surreal allegory about an enormous experiment whose purpose is not scientific But the original impulse and its heat are still there in what has emerged And Australia has not changed if anything the current election campaign has only shamed us deeply. EPub asylum seeker It s terrible for a writer when he thinks he s pushed reality to an extreme.

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Monday saw the celebration of World Refugee Day an initiative introduced by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR in 2001 as a result of the Australian Major General Paul Cullen s lobbying from the 1980 s Australia also celebrates National Refugee Week to actively inform the public about refugees and to celebrate the positive contributions made by refugees to Australian society This year the event runs from Saturday 19 June to Saturday 25 June 2016 Here is my small contribution to this week I made time to find read and now review a new release from Australia a work that touched my nerve when I read about how the book came into being. Book asylum I am going to be bold here and quote in full John Hughes note on the origins of Asylum a note he wrote for Charlotte Guest the Publishing Officer at UWA Publishing and a note that appears on the publisher s blog. Asylum granted In the European autumn of 2013 I took some leave in Venice to work on a novel about a Russian prince living in exile there after the Revolution On my first day in Venice a boat sank off the island of Lampedusa and over three hundred asylum seekers drowned. Asylumineurope The Italian response to such an unconscionable tragedy was to declare a National Day of Mourning No party politics no pious utterances about people smugglers border protection or stopping the boats no baying of radio talk back hosts The fact that it was quite simply a human tragedy made for the immediate response at least everything else at best irrelevant and at worst downright barbaric. Asylum seeker As the day wore on though I couldn t help but think what our response back in Australia might have been if something similar happened there The idea of an Australian National Day of Mourning struck me as so absurd as to be impossible And the fact that it struck me in this way made me feel so angry I couldn t do anything for the rest of the day but seethe After that came the sadness and the shame and finally the despair which even now three years on I still can t shake off. Asylum demon Asylum began in that anger and despair stretched a policy to what he believes is its reductio ad absurdum only to find that he s been trumped by the real When allegory becomes realism there s something very wrong Suffice to say Asylum has a number of resonances in English and they are all there in the book. Asylum customer communications hub The opening epigraph comes from Constantine Cavafy s poem Ithaka and is the closing line What these Itakas mean This is going to be a journey we learn from that experience than the arrival itself For my full review go to 176

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Just because you can t see the chains doesn t mean they don t exist In the Sanctuary two robed men cut the hair of clients who have been called to pass through the White or Black Door Along with their hair the clients shed stories of the horrors of their past the Place they ve inhabited since their escape and what lies beyond the Doors These stories are inscribed as Legends but do they record a vision of Paradise or Hell This allegory echoing Kafka illuminates the stark terror of the modern age marked by a border in constant shift between gods and men truth and deception freedom and constraint memory and forgetting revealing a world whose essence is its hiddenness a world that hides not in darkness but in the light What I will tell you now is only guesswork Because when a person is called they just disappear and are never seen again We assume that their case is finally being heard that they have moved on from here to the next stage You seem to think of it as something dreadful but it s why we came here after all We came here of our own free will you must remember that and we are free to leave at any time Subject Fiction Asylum by John HughesSydney based Australian writerJohn Hughes.