Problemski Hotel / Dimitri Verhulst ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verhulst, Dimitri, 1972-

Contributor:

Colmer, David, 1960-

Standardized Title:

Problemski Hotel. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizen detention centers--Belgium--Fiction.

Noncitizen detention centers.

Noncitizens--Fiction.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration--Fiction.

Illegal immigration.

Belgium.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

160 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : M. Boyars, 2005.

Summary:

""Problemski Hotel" is an extremely fascinating book in which the daily life of asylum-seekers is related in an inimitable way . . . A profound portrayal of a group of people with no future."-"De Standaard der Letteren"

A comic novel on a very serious subject. Dimitri Verhulst, an investigative journalist, had himself locked up in the asylum-seekers center at Arendonk for several days for a Flemish magazine. He then wrote a magazine article, but the experience would not let go of him. He wrote this comic, unabashedly politically incorrect novel, which is told from the perspective of asylum-seeker Bipul Masli, a press photographer from Somalia. The action takes place in an asylum-seekers center in Belgium in the final weeks of 2001.

ISBN:

0714531103

OCLC:

57675721