The Ungrateful Refugee - What Immigrants Never Tell You

Zusatztext With her own experience to guide her, she talks to present-day refugees in camps in Greece, weaving her own story into the tales of hardship she hears . . . Nayeri presents their stories sensitively and respectfully Informationen zum Autor Dina Nayeri was born in Iran during the revolution and arrived in America when she was ten years old. She is the winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, an O. Henry Award and the UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize. The author of two novels and contributor to The Displaced , her work has been published in over twenty countries. Her stories and essays have been published in Best American Short Stories and by the New York Times , Guardian , Wall Street Journal and Granta . She lives in London. dinanayeri.com | @DinaNayeri Klappentext Dina Nayeri combines her own experience of fleeing Iran with her mother and brother when she was eight, eventually gaining asylum in America, with the true stories of other refugees in recent years. 'A work of astonishing, insistent importance...' "Observer" A timely, provocative and personal examination of the refugee experience Zusammenfassung A timely, provocative and personal examination of the refugee experience Inhaltsverzeichnis dinanayeri.com

Product details

• Authors: Dina Nayeri, Nayeri Dina
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781786893499
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-349-9
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Memoirs, Social & cultural history, Social discrimination & inequality, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional