Of the 23 personal narratives around which This Is Europe is built (each character gets his or her own chapter), almost half belong to refugees. In Ben Judah’s illuminating depiction of modern-day Europe, almost everyone has a dream. He starred in a homemade porn video that went viral: ‘100 per cent real Arab bull.’ Next, he’s earning close to a seven-figure salary, owns a flash car and has women dripping off his arm. Immigrant life was tough at first: the strange language, the alien norms, the overt racism. A clean $4,000 in cash to a smuggler got him a fake passport and, voilà, a ticket to Europe – briefly in Greece, then in Germany (‘the people, they looked different’), now in Spain.
He fled Aleppo just before the bombs began to fall.
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