Part dark fairy tale, part mystery, Yiza is the story of three homeless street children on the run. One evening, not long after her arrival in Germany, six-year-old Yiza is abandoned at the market where she spends her days. At a shelter for migrant children she meets two boys, Schamhan and Arian, and together they run away. Trekking through snowy forests and housing settlements, they evade police custody, subsisting on the margins of society and doing whatever it takes to survive. Both boys are protective of Yiza but are blind to the moral and emotional complexities of their actions. When Yiza falls ill they take shelter in a greenhouse and Arian spends his days begging for food and medicine, but before long they are discovered. When Yiza is illicitly taken into care and confined the novel reaches its brutal denouement as Schamhan and Arian will do anything to be reunited with her. Narrated in simple language and with an innocent charm that belies its social reality, Yiza is a pertinent and timely tale of displacement and suffering.
- ISBN10 1910376752
- ISBN13 9781910376751
- Publish Date 31 October 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 February 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Haus Publishing
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 120
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9781910376751