num_pages: 384
description: To the charity workers Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents it is their last resort.In City of Thorns Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp and to sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped there. Rawlence combines intimate storytelling with broad socio-political investigative journalism.
language: English
title: City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
publisher: Picador