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Paperless | Buntu Siwisa
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Luzuko Goba, a South African studying at Oxford, navigates the worlds of the undocumented, and the people living at the margins of English life. His father, a former political exile, has just died, and Luzuko is weighing up his father's life of sacrifice and the price they both paid for freedom back home. This is a book about wayfarers, out of time, and on the wrong side of the UK's department of immigration. They are the paperless.Sweeping and soulful, Buntu Siwisa observes the hidden and exceptional modern lives of migrant Africans in England in this beautiful debut.
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"But I did not see myself as a refugee. I was a freedom fighter. I had been displaced from my own country. For me then, freedom could come the next day, or the following week. It had been coming 'tomorrow' ever since I was displaced from my home country in 1976. And it continued to come 'the following day' throughout my exile. Until that 'tomorrow' eventually became 1990....

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charl08
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I'm not usually a fan of an #OxfordNovel - hopefully this one is an exception.