#the men who swallowed the sun
“We were told not to look beyond the wall and the Libyan Auxiliary Police made the rocky hills shake while they searched for us.” It is a raw, concise vision of an otherwise unsentimental reality. Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s ‘The Men Who Swallowed the Sun’ (2022) spins a furious, unapologetic tale of illegal immigration, discrimination, and erasure. Here is a book that not only attempts to understand the calculus of poverty and aspiration, but also the flawed politics that undercurrent North…
