Gulsun Karamustafa alludes to a more lasting loss of direction in an assemblage about the rootless lives of Turkish laborers in Germany.
His chronicles of rootless lives in the fictional hamlet of Harrison, Tex., present in their way as unrelenting an assessment of the human condition as "Waiting for Godot".
Chronically just a few dollars away from broke, Lloyd and Frank spend their days dreaming and scheming, and occasionally working, angling for a way to get a leg up on fate, on luck and their aimless, rootless lives.
But it was the young, rootless people living in Venice Beach who intrigued him the most.
This version demanded to be taken seriously for its message of love, peace and living rootless off the land, but it seldom was.
Women riders, who are often far from home, underpaid or not paid at all, living a rootless existence where the word of their (often male) team manager is law, are in just such an environment.
The most successful people nowadays are flexible and rootless; they can live anywhere and believe anything.
For me, she epitomizes Iyer's "global soul," in that she has become a living embodiment of global interconnectedness, becoming rootless herself in an effort to plant enduring and global seeds of change.
The fallout of this event is told from multiple characters' perspectives — a Lebanese shopkeeper with a nose for news; a Broadway has-been turned alcoholic music teacher; a talented, rootless graffiti artist; a well-meaning kid from the projects living in the grim shadow of his father's murder.
Capriciously switching his allegiance from one German philosopher to another, cadging off all his friends and both defying and living off his estate-owning father, Bakunin is a rootless anarchist who believes in the "abolition of the state by the liberated workers".
