The Common Dream

<i>The Common Dream</i> is a haunting and provocative work taking the reader deep inside lives traumatized by the agonies endured in a historically repressed society. The taut narratives of refugees fleeing across the sea reveal facets of a brutal system that denied freedom instilled fear and fostered hopelessness. The nightmare is compounded by cruelties of a different sort some residual and some newly imposed at the emigrants' port of call. <i>The Common Dream</i> is an inordinately credible fiction documenting escape from an incredibly horrid reality and the dream of not having the need to do so.