Refuge

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Finally, a moving immigrant story that looks at the larger 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 their lives diverge, but also the 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, our grown up transplant finds herself quickly entranced by a world that is at once everything she has missed and nothing that she has ever known Will her immersion in the lives of these new refugees allow her the grace to save her father Refuge charts the deeply moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration Beautifully written, full of insight, charm, and humor, the novel subtly exposes the parts of ourselves that get left behind in the wake of diaspora and ultimately asks Must home always be a physical place, or can we find it in another person Free Read Books Refuge by Dina Nayeri – kino-fada.fr Refugee novels are extremely popular right now Not surprising with the amount of refugees on the move around the world and the debate in various countries about what to do with them, to welcome them or send them back What sets this novel apart is that it is partly based on the authors own experiences as a refugee as she left Iran with her mother and brother due to persucution by the religious police She would see her father only four times in the preceding years Her character Niloo...I enjoyed this tender drama about a splintered Iranian family and their tenuous relationships as the mother, daughter and son emigrate to America and then disperse again into Europe The father, for various reasons, remains in Iran and remarries several times, occasionally traveling to Europe to visit his increasingly alienated children.The story is mainly focused on the father, Bahman, and the daughter, Niloo, and their complicated bond The first three quarters of the book really drew me in as I enjoyed this tender drama about a splintered Iranian family and their tenuous relationships as the mother, daughter and son emigrate to America and then disperse again into Europe The father, for various reasons, remains in Iran and remarries several times, occasionally traveling to E...Thoroughly enjoyed To see all my reviews visit Book Nation by Jen the late 1980s, Niloo, then 8 years old, left Iran with her mother and brother, thinking her dentist father would meet up with them soon after As it turned out, this daddy s girl only saw her father 4 times in a span of twenty years following their exodus In Refuge, Author Dina Nayeri follows Niloo as a young married, Iranian woman on a journey to find herself and establish roots Concurr Thoroughly enjoyed To see all my reviews visit Book Nation by Jen the late 198...RTCI had not heard of Nayeri s Refuge until it made the Tournament of Books Longlist Many within the Tournament of Books group were giving it rave reviews Even though Refuge deals with the socially relevant topic of refugees, it is not a typical refugee book Refuge tells the story of Niloo, a young Iranian refugee who fled to the United States when her mother s choice of religionChristianityputs the family at risk Covering a twenty year time span Refuge chronicle...i want to start this review by saying that dina nayeri doesn t have her own wikipedia entry i am to remedy this as soon as possible i would like to continue by saying that this is the most moving book i ve read this year i mean last year, 2017 and it s okay that it flew under many radar screens so we can keep her to ourselves a little bit longer from what i could find online, nayeri is about 15 years younger than i, but her understanding of people, relations, human pai...lovely you can t take the refugee out of the girl story about SO many things Lovely narration by Mozhan Marno Youssif Kamal was just alright I ll be thinking about this one for a while and might add a ...4 starsI nearly gave up on this book, but kept reading to find a very realistic to me story of a family as seen through the eyes of the daughter and the father Probably a bit too detailed and this could have made for a nice little novella but the details bring the culture and cross cultures to life.This was 4.5 read for me.Thoughts coming shortly.This is a story of immigration told in the fractured relationship between a woman and the father who remained behind in Iran Niloo was eight when she was bundled into a car and left Istafan, Iran forever Her mother, a Christian, was in danger and her father remained behind, his successful dental practice and opium addiction keeping him there Over then years, there were a few brief, unsatisfactory reunions Niloo is a success story Her mother works long hours in menial jobs to support them an This is a story of immigration told in the fractured relationship between a woman and the father who r...

Refuge
  • 23 March 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 336 pages
  • 1594487057
  • Dina Nayeri
  • Refuge