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Shadow Behind the Sun: Flight from Kosovo: A Woman's Story (Non-Fiction)

Shadow Behind the Sun: Flight from Kosovo: A Woman's Story (Non-Fiction)

by Robert Davidson (Author), Remzija Sherifi (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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In Shadow Behind the Sun , Remzije Sherifi places the events of the 1990s in the context of her family's experience through a period of over 100 years, culminating in her own flight from Serbian forces in 1999. It is a gripping uplifting story of endurance, love and hope. In the same narrative she shows the work of the Integration Networks in day to day detail and invites the reader into the world of the Asylum Seeker.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Sandstone Press
Published: 19 May 2007
ISBN 10: 1905207131
ISBN 13: 9781905207138
Book Overview: Shadow Behind The Sun is perhaps the first substantial book to emerge from the wave of new Scots who have arrived here in the last decade from war zones across the world - from Iraq and Afghanistan. from Sudan and Zimbabwe, and of course from former Yugoslavia, in this case from Kosova. In this book, written with the help of Robert Davidson of Sandstone Press, Remzije Sherifi intercuts her story of the conflict in Kosova - the history of the region, the conflict which developed in the 1990's, and the reasons why she and her family finally had to leave - with her experiences today, working as an adviser to other refugees and asylum seekers in a drop-in centre in Glasgow. And between these two poles of experience, she produces a remarkable memoir. It's an angry book, but also a profoundly thoughtful one about the way in which this kind of ethnic conflict can flare up within months, or a few short years, in what previously seemed a peaceful and harmonious society, and about her experience of working with others who have faced similar crises. Sherifi is a woman younger than me, who has already seen more suffering and trauma than anyone should have to see in a lifetime. But she is still learning, growing and changing here in Scotland, building a new life which is not the same as the old one, but which still brings new challenges and fulfilments. And while there is never any room for complacency on these issues, I think that's something in which we can take some small amount of pride. Joyce McMillan: Saltire Awards Ceremony. 30 November 2007.

Media Reviews
Remzije Sherifi devotes large sections of 'Shadow Behind the Sun' to her life and work with other immigrants in Scotland. But the most moving and intriguing sections of her well-written and carefully assembled story deal with this former journalist's life as an Albanian woman in Yugoslavia and then, unluckily, in Greater Serbia. Remzije Sherifi was there. She left the bodies of loved ones behind. She knows what we did not know, or what we preferred to ignore. Sherifi certainly did not set out to write a justification for interventionist foreign policies. But that is one of the peripheral achievements of the splendid book that is 'Shadow Behind the Sun'.
Author Bio
Remzije Sherifi was for many years a broadcast journalist with Radio Gjilan in Kosova. She came to Great Britain with her family in 1999 as part of the humanitarian evacuation of refugees fleeing Serbian paramilitary forces. For health reasons she remains in the City of Glasgow but is in regular contact with family and other journalists who have returned. She now works as Development Officer for the Maryhill Integration Network, part of a UK wide network of organisations focussing on Asylum Seekers, their plight and their place in British society. Co-author Robert Davidson is the author of a wide body of work. Born and raised in Glasgow he has for many years made his home in Highland Scotland Foreword author George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to Great Britain as a refugee in 1956. His first book, 'The Slant Door', was published in 1979 and won the Faber Memorial prize the following year. In 1982, he was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, since then, has published several books and won various other prizes including the T S Eliot Prize for 'Reel' in 2005. His work has been translated into numerous languages.