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Translation: Valentina Agustín

Alem lives by the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia and is a national of both countries. A violent conflict erupts in the region and his family receives death threats, so the young man is taken against his will to the other end of the World, to a London East End neighborhood, in an attempt to guarantee his safety.

The friends that welcome him will appreciate his bravery, his abnegation and his generosity. He will make an effort to learn as much as possible and will try to make the most of his time in the United Kingdom, but the problems that occur in his birthplace will irrupt incessantly and disturbingly through the assimilation and new life of this unique adolescent hero.

Alem Kelo, refugiado makes no concessions. This novel by acclaimed British poet Benjamin Zephaniah denounces ignorance, awakens our consciousness and exposes how and under what circumstances Western society is capable of solidarity.