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Alla fine degli anni ottanta, quando la sua famiglia decise di fuggire dall'Iran in guerra, Dina Nayeri era una bambina. Il rumore delle bombe, le sirene e le corse per nascondersi nel seminterrato, la poca luce filtrata dalle finestre serrate erano tutte cose normali. Negli anni a venire, sui letti a castello delle case per i rifugiati di Londra, di Dubai, di Roma, poi dell'Oklahoma, Dina conobbe per la prima volta il silenzio del sonno tranquillo e ininterrotto: quella fu la sua prima idea di cosa fosse la pace. Sua madre le diceva di pregare e di essere grata. Sui migranti sono state scritte molte storie. A partire dall'Eneide, l'esperienza di chi è costretto a fuggire non ha mai smesso di essere all'origine di narrazioni impetuose, grandi, travolgenti. Storie di singoli individui, soli contro la perdita di tutto, storie che sono universali. Dopo un clamoroso reportage uscito sul "Guardian", "The Ungrateful Refugee", Dina Nayeri si misura con la domanda più impietosa del nostro tempo: che cosa significa essere un migrante? E soprattutto: cosa succede quando chi fugge diventa un rifugiato? Qual è il prezzo della sua integrazione? La risposta è semplice. La prima regola per il rifugiato è rimanere al proprio posto. Essere meno capace, avere meno esigenze degli altri. Accontentarsi e ringraziare per l'accoglienza, accettando il destino di un terribile circolo vizioso: sei un pigro richiedente asilo, finché non diventi un intruso avido. Grazie alla propria esperienza, una scrittrice esplora come vive chi è costretto a fuggire, come si declina il rifiuto delle comunità di approdo, e indaga la tragedia dello straniamento dell'identità che tutti i giorni avviene sotto i nostri occhi.
- ISBN: 8807033852
- Casa Editrice: Feltrinelli
- Pagine: 366
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Holy moly... wow wow wow!!!! WORTH READING... WORTH DISCUSSIONS ... but I’m not exactly on the same page with Dina on everything. I listened to this book from the wonders of Hoopla... ...reminded by just how far technology has come... in supporting instant availability in reading a book ( or listening in Leggi tutto
Dina was right years old when she, her brother and mother fled Iran. As a Christian convert, her mother was spreading pamphlets around the country, an act that brought death threats from the morality authorities. They became refugees. Told in alternating chapters, Dina chronicles her family's struggl Leggi tutto
"You never forget the moment you were part of a shivering horde, when another human threw you your food, when you slept in mud alongside your confused children, when you shoved and grunted beside other faceless people, some of them former architects, doctors, teachers. It can break your spirit as
I'm very torn on what rating to give this book. On the one hand, some parts of it are so beautifully written that it should be praised to the rooftops. On the other, it rambles about and loses its sense of direction far more often than I liked. I found the concept of the 'ungrateful' refugee very co Leggi tutto
An electrifying essential read. Nayeri describes the West as “as a mother who once adopted us, the exiles and outcasts, and now needs us to intervene as calluses harden fast around her heart.” This is her story as well as the story of the many. She sets out to volunteer on Lesbos and finds the stori Leggi tutto
This book blew me away. Nayeri combines her personal experience and the larger political situation and experiences of refugees in the world at present. She visits detention camps, talks with people trying to find asylum (fleeing from unbearable situations that people from other cultures cannot--and
I had a mixed experience with this. The journalistic parts about others' refugee stories were powerful and engaging. The sections on her own refugee experience and her feelings about that experience today were a little less engaging for me. Her reactions to her grandmother's experience, and then to
I LOVED Dina Nayeri's novel, Refugee, and I bought a copy for everyone I know. It was just so beautiful. This is sort of a memoir, but it's really not. If it had been a polemic, a memoir, or an analysis of the refugee experience, I think it would have been a clearer a story. The book is a series of
another MUST READ book about European immigration policies, refugees camps and about how dutch immigration treat refugees and asylum applicants😩 It is a MUST READ for everyone living in a western country, who hear politicians dehumanizing people who happened to become refugees, who give teddy bears f Leggi tutto
The title got my interest especially as I know a little bit of the author's backstory and had read other works by her. I was intrigued to read what she had to say, especially in light of the ongoing conversation of refugees seeking a better life, safety and hope for the future. The author lays out he Leggi tutto
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