“A few days after our conversation, he leaves to seek refuge in Syria, although he sees clearly the horror that is coming. “I think the Middle East is no longer safe and that what is coming will be much worse, and that there will be a lot of wars and many victims. I remember a book. I liked it so much. Its name was Life is Elsewhere. In it, the main character said, ‘my home is my feet’ and now I must take this seriously.””
The Iraqi Suitcase by Laura Waddington
Source: Interview with Milan Kundera (following the Spanish publication of Life is Elsewhere) by Joaquín Soler Serrano, A Fondo, Radiotelevisión Española, January 6, 1980. Edition restored by Gonzalo Herralde. Editrama (YouTube)