{"product_id":"the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives-paperback","title":"The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDavid Bezmozgis\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eThi Bui\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Displaced\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a powerful and timely dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday the world faces an enormous refugee crisis: 68.5 million people fleeing persecution and conflict from Myanmar to South Sudan and Syria, a figure worse than the flight of Jewish and other Europeans during World War II and beyond anything the world has seen in this generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet in the United States, United Kingdom, and other countries with the means to welcome refugees, anti-immigration politics and fear have shut the door. Even for readers seeking to help, the sheer scale of the problem renders the experience of refugees hard to comprehend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViet Nguyen, called \"one of our great chroniclers of displacement\" (Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), brings together writers originally from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, Ethiopia, and elsewhere to make their stories heard. They are formidable in their own right--MacArthur Genius grant recipients, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalists, filmmakers, speakers, lawyers, professors, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003econtributors--and they are all refugees, many as children arriving in London and Toronto, Oklahoma and Minnesota, South Africa and Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir 17 contributions are as diverse as their own lives have been, and yet hold just as many themes in common.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReyna Grande questions the line between \"official\" refugee and \"illegal\" immigrant, chronicling the disintegration of the family forced to leave her behind; Fatima Bhutto visits Alejandro Iñárritu's virtual reality border crossing installation \"Flesh and Sand\"; Aleksandar Hemon recounts a gay Bosnian's answer to his question, \"How did you get here?\"; Thi Bui offers two uniquely striking graphic panels; David Bezmozgis writes about uncovering new details about his past and attending a hearing for a new refugee; and Hmong writer Kao Kalia Yang recalls the courage of children in a camp in Thailand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There is no single refugee story, and as the editor of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Displaced\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a collection of refugee writers exploring and reflecting on their experiences, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives these stories room to breath and unfurl.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMillions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eList of contributors: \u003cbr\u003eJoseph Azam\u003cbr\u003eDavid Bezmozgis\u003cbr\u003eFatima Bhutto\u003cbr\u003eThi Bui\u003cbr\u003eAriel Dorfman\u003cbr\u003eLev Golinkin\u003cbr\u003eReyna Grande\u003cbr\u003eAleksandar Hemon\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Kertes\u003cbr\u003ePorochista Khakpour\u003cbr\u003eMarina Lewycka\u003cbr\u003eMaaza Mengiste\u003cbr\u003eDina Nayeri\u003cbr\u003eVu Tran\u003cbr\u003eNovuyo Rosa Tshuma\u003cbr\u003eKao Kalia Yang\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Vietnam in 1971. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, he and his family fled to the United States. The author of three books, Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53096743764192,"sku":"9781419735110","price":17.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/l_rpeH-LUK9781419735110.webp?v=1781678716","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}