Exiles

✍ Scribed by Krieger, Elliot

• Book ID: 107662768
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 210 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"Krieger evokes the dreary darkness of the Uppsala winter and the paranoia and entitlement of the young Americans there. . . . Krieger touches on the mix of noble and self-interested impulses that can propel activism."--New York Tiems Book Review

"Exiles is filled with suspense. . . . It's a fascinating look at a place during a particular time, but the intrigue transcends the locale. The ending is riveting and insidious. Which I mean as a compliment."--Ann Beattie

"Elliot Krieger has created an original and wonderfully fallible hero in Lenny Spiegel, an American college student who finds himself in Sweden among Viet Nam war draft resisters. Passionate and complex, Exiles is a story about the confusion and quest for identity--personal, political, and moral."--Hester Kaplan , the author of Kinship Theory and The Edge of Marriage

Sweden has granted asylum to American protesters against the Vietnam War. Some are draft...