The Refugee Hotel

by Carmen Aguirre

Two events gave birth to this play: the 1998 arrest of Augusto Pinochet by the spanish courts and the 1995 death of Aguirre's uncle, who drank himself to death on Vancouver's skid row, never living to make a victorious return to his country. It has taken decades of silence for Aguirre to understand and come to terms with her family's experience as refugees and exiles: "The few times we spoke about it to other people, we were accused of being pathological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889226504
• ISBN13: 9780889226500
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"