‘Music is a way of reclaiming time’: Behrouz Boochani’s lauded memoir becomes a poetic musical event – The Guardian

A little blond girl plays in the shallows at Christmas Island, oblivious to a tugboat filled with exhausted refugees pulling up to a pier for Australian government processing in the middle of the Indian Ocean. For Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker and writer Behrouz Boochani, traumatised by nearly drowning at sea and still struggling to walk, this girl is like the cool gentle breeze this sunny day. She is his first real impression of Australia.
London-based Australian composer Luke Styles, who has created…

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