The Burden of Exile, Aaron Berhane
The Burden of Exile, Aaron Berhane
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The Burden of Exile
A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship

Author: Aaron Berhane, Brendan de Caires

Narrator: Mussie Berhane

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dundurn Press

Published: 08/01/2023

Synopsis

The incredible true story of a journalist who escaped the brutal dictatorship of Eritrea after his story angered the president, and how he established a new life and newspaper in Canada A memoir published posthumously after the author died shortly after completing the manuscript Includes an Afterword by the author's children and a Foreword written by Brendan de Caires, the executive director of PEN Canada

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Goodreads review by Sarah (sarahanneisreading) on June 17, 2024

4.5 stars......more

Goodreads review by Enid on February 03, 2023

This title has a lot of similarities to The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins. In this case, it is the story of the flight - with the assistance of smugglers - of an Eritrean journalist… his eventual arrival in Canada, the community he finds to support him here, and his reunification wit......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on December 31, 2023

What an inspiring and heartbreaking story of an Eritrean-Canadian journalist fighting for his rights and those of his fellow citizens. This reminds me of reasons why I choose to work in the settlement sector here in Canada. Audiobook read by his son (which makes me tear up).......more

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