The displaced : refugee writers on refugee lives / edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

Contributor:

Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- editor.

Standardized Title:

Displaced (Abrams Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees.

Medical Subjects:

Refugees.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

2022.

New York : Abrams Press, [2019]

Summary:

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. Poignant and insightful, this collection of essays reveals moments of uncertainty, resilience int he face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity. The Displaced is a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge. -- Adapted from book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Viet Thanh Nguyen

Last, first, middle / Joseph Azam

Common story / David Bezmozgis

Flesh and sand / Fatima Bhutto

Perspective and What gets lost / Thi Bui

How succulent food defeated Trump's wall before it has been built / Ariel Dorfman

Guest of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa / Lev Golinkin

The parent who stays / Reyna Grande

To walk in their shoes / Meron Hadero

God's fate / Aleksandar Hemon

Second country / Joseph Kertes

13 ways of being an immigrant / Porochista Khakpour

Refugees and exiles / Marina Lewycka

This is what the journey does / Maaza Mengiste

The ungrateful refugee / Dina Nayeri

A refugee again / Vu Tran

New lands, new selves / Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Refugee children: the Yang warriors / Kao Kalia Yang.

Notes:

Originally published: 2018. Contains new chapter: The road / Chris Abani.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781683352075

1683352076

OCLC:

1028941702