Refuge A Novel

Dina Nayeri, Mozhan Marnò, Youssif Kamal

eAudio - 2017

“Rich and colorful... [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere.” –New York TimesThe moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee experience. An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to overachieving Westerner to sophisticated European transplant, daughter and father know each other only from their visits: four crucial visits over two decades, each in a different international city. The longer they are apart, the more their lives diverge, but also the more each comes to need the other...'s wisdom and, ultimately, rescue. Meanwhile, refugees of all nationalities are flowing into Europe under troubling conditions. Wanting to help, but also looking for a lost sense of home,...

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Language
English
Main Authors
Dina Nayeri, Mozhan Marnò, Youssif Kamal
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MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size302 GB
Parts9
ISBN9781524776855
Release Date7/11/2017
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size302 GB
ISBN9781524776855
Release Date7/11/2017