Explorers, writers and other creative strangers

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  • Published 20070202
  • ISBN: 9780733320569
  • Extent: 280 pp
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In homage to Lech Paszkowski and all creative strangers

IN THE IMMIGRATION office in Paris, I had one chance to convince the person in charge why I should be allowed to stay. Someone in the waiting room cried as he was handed his deportation papers. People of all nationalities, and their children, waited their turn. When it was my turn to face the immigration officer, I was determined to show that all was fine, that I was worthy of staying, that I was non-threatening. But something betrayed me to the woman in charge. She looked at me with professional suspicion.

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