Título: The Ungrateful Refugee
Autor: Dina Nayeri
Sinopse: What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. To be a refugee is to grapple with your place in society, attempting to reconcile the life you have known with a new, unfamiliar home. All this while bearing the burden of gratitude in your host nation: the expectation that you should be forever thankful for the space you have been allowed. 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. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement. In these pages, a couple falls in love over the phone, and 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. Nothing here is flattened; nothing is simplistic. Nayeri offers a new understanding of refugee life, confronting dangers from the metaphor of the swarm to the notion of “good” immigrants. She calls attention to the harmful way in which Western governments privilege certain dangers over others. With surprising and provocative questions, 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.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Ungrateful Refugee”, de Dina Nayeri, publicado pela editora Catapult, em 2019 e com 336 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Catapult
Páginas: 336
Ano: 2019
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Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 1948226421
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Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Catapult oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas densas e sensoriais, que exploram conflitos íntimos e sociais com um olhar atento à identidade, pertencimento e memória. Muitas obras apresentam protagonistas em situações de tensão entre culturas, como imigrantes ou comunidades marginalizadas, enquanto outras mergulham em temas contemporâneos como vigilância, justiça social e crises ambientais. O catálogo reúne tanto ficção literária com ritmo envolvente e vozes narrativas distintas quanto ensaios e coletâneas que dialogam com história, política e cultura visual. Essa diversidade se manifesta em obras que transitam entre o lirismo especulativo e o relato investigativo, sempre com um tom que convida à reflexão sem simplificações.
