Exilio

“Exile never ends. Never. Not even if you return to your country. I always have the feeling of being trapped outside.” These pages remind us of emigration, refuge, and diaspora, of exile and internal exile, of exodus and banishment. Their presence is constant in our societies, but accounts of these experiences are often absent. Clara Obligado took decades to speak of being a foreigner and to tell the stories of these lives exposed to the elements. Fifty years have passed since the civic-military coup in Argentina, the same number of years that have passed since the author left her country and arrived in Spain. Exile unfolds a multifaceted narrative, where ghosts, survivors, and the forgotten find their voices and become protagonists. The story is enriched by Agustín Comotto's illustrations, and to be drawn into them is to embark on a journey and extend a hand to those who wander between shores, hemispheres, and lives.