The Leash and the Ball

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By the author of Two Blankets, Three Sheets, published in January 2020 Based on the author's personal experience Picks up where Two Blankets, Three Sheets left off, but stands alone as a novel In Two Blankets, Iraqi refugee Samir spends nine years in a Dutch refugee center. In The Leash, he is finally released and has a chance to start his new life as a European citizen Uniquely humorous adventure story in which a newly released immigrant from the Middle East tries to make sense of the incomprehensible rules and habits of the West Two Blankets, Three Sheets was reviewed in LA Review of Books, Words Without Borders, Foreign Affairs, and Shelf Awareness Galidi's work was compared by the European Press to George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Steven Spielberg's film The Terminal The author has an fascinating life story: o He was born in Iraq, but does not know his birth date as his native country didn't register births o He studied as an engineer in Iraq before fleeing to escape military service. He spent 7 years anonymously wandering through Asia, until he finally made it to the Netherlands with a fake passport o His request for asylum was rejected, and instead he was sent to an asylum center and assigned a bed in a shared dorm-where he spent the next nine years o Not allowed to follow the official courses of the Dutch language, he taught himself the language and started writing. He is now considered to be a Dutch writer and receives stipends from Dutch as well as Flemish institutes o In 2007, Rodaan was one of the people to benefit from the general pardon given by the Dutch parliament to asylum seekers arriving before 2001, and he still lives in the country. His novel "The Autist and the Carrier Pigeon" won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011-the same year he failed his Dutch citizenship course Al Galidi's work has been translated into 10 languages