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The thankless foreigner
- Title
- The thankless foreigner / Irena Brežná ; translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
- Author
- Brežná, Irena, 1950-
- Publication
- London ; New York ; Calcutta : Seagull Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kemp, Ruth Ahmedzai
- Description
- 140 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The Thankless Stranger is an account of the immigrant experience, fuelled by autobiography, which succeeds in conveying a real sense of intimacy and authenticity regarding the immigrant experience. The main storyline charts the struggle to come to terms with an alien culture - a situation which is compared to being a young, passionate woman forced to endure an imposed marriage with a stern and much older man. However, as the narrator matures, she has a growing awareness of those aspects of her new homeland which are positive. Interwoven with the main narrative are a series of 'mini-dramas' arising from the narrator's experiences as an interpreter mediating between immigrants, medical and legal authorities, and social workers. These often very moving episodes highlight the tragedy and vulnerability of those who flee impossible conditions at home and hope, often against overwhelming odds, to make something of their lives in a new country. Brežná's fluid writing style has a lyricism and lightness of touch which communicate her amusement and bemusement at the collective behavioural traits of the native people in her host country of Switzerland. And her moving depiction of the plight of other immigrants ensures that the serious underlying issues concerning poverty, exploitation and political persecution are not underplayed."--
- Series Statement
- The Slovak list
- Uniform Title
- Undankbare Fremde. English
- Alternative Title
- Undankbare Fremde.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Note
- Translated from the German.
- "First published in German as Die undankbare Fremde by Irena Brežná ; published under the imprint Galiani Berlin © Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH & Co., KG, Cologne, Germany, 2012" -- Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-1046
- ISBN
- 9781803090818
- 1803090812
- OCLC
- 1304399944
- Author
- Brežná, Irena, 1950- author.
- Title
- The thankless foreigner / Irena Brežná ; translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
- Publisher
- London ; New York ; Calcutta : Seagull Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Slovak list
- Added Author
- Kemp, Ruth Ahmedzai, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-1046