The New Odyssey ─ The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis

Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World War II. Meeting hundreds of refugees and fleeing with them across the Mediterranean to reach the wary shores of Europe, Kingsley investigates why these victims are forced to leave their homes, how they do it, and who helps or hinders their path to safety. Tracing the journey of one Syrian migrant, Hashem al-Souki, in particular, who braved the harrowing trek not once but twice, Kingsley draws a compassionate, visceral portrait of the mass migration in both its epic scope and its heartbreaking specificity. From the hideouts of Berber smugglers and the ports of Sicily to the railways of Western Europe and the footpaths of the Balkans, The New Odyssey provides unprecedented, novelistic detail of a world in crisis.