- Title:
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The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
- Written by:
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Dina Nayeri
- Read by:
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Dina Nayeri
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 33 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2020
- Available Date:
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November 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867501497
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Autobiography; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Canongate audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
A timely, provocative and personal examination of the refugee experience, narrated by author Dina Nayeri.
Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. Now, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with those of other asylum seekers in recent years. Here, women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home, a closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials.
Surprising and provocative, The Ungrateful Refugee recalibrates the conversation around the refugee experience. Here are the real human stories of what it is like to be forced to flee your home and to journey across borders in the hope of starting afresh.
'A work of astonishing, insistent importance ... This is a book full of revelatory truths, moments where we are plunged deeply and painfully into the quotidian experience of the refugee.'
The Observer
'Dina Nayeri has written a vital book for our times. The Ungrateful Refugee gives voice to those whose stories are too often lost or suppressed. Braiding memoir, reportage and essayism, Nayeri allows those fortunate enough to have never been stateless or displaced to glimpse something of the hardships and subtleties of the refugee experience. Written with compassion, tenderness and a burning anger, her book appears at the end of a decade in which division and dislocation have risen to a terrible pitch. It speaks powerfully from – and to – the heart.'
Robert MacFarlane
'A thoughtful investigation ... This wide-ranging, reasoned book is no polemic: its observations are self-reflective, contemplative and significant.'
Financial Times