Title: Calamities of Exile
First published: May 23, 1996
Description: The three narratives by Lawrence Weschler here joined together were conceived from the start as a sort of triptych: three tales about basically decent expatriates (the first an Iraqi, the second a Czech, the third an Afrikaner), each of whom tries to do the right thing with regard to the totalitarian regime holding sway over his homeland - the thing we readers, too, might have done, if only we were much more courageous than we are - only to end up thoroughly wracked and bollixed.
Subjects: Political activists, Biography, Oedipus (greek mythology), Expatriation, Exiles, Aliens
People: Jan Kavan (1946-), Kanan Makiya, Breyten Breytenbach
LC classification: D849 .W456 1998