- Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist
The Thankless Foreigner
Die undankbare Fremde
Irena Brežná (born 1950)
Translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
English editions
In EnglishThe Thankless Foreigner
Seagull Books · United Kingdom · 2022 · Hardcover · 160 pages
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The novel works on two layers of memory linked by a first-person narrator. She reflects on her own experience of making a home in the new country, and in her role as an interpreter she conveys the turbulent fates of present-day migrants. Through these two strands, despair at the loss of a homeland turns into joy at gaining new, hybrid identities in every kind of foreignness, told with humour and thoughtfulness.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 140 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland
- First published
- 2012 by Galiani Berlin
- Author's age
- 62 when first published
- ISBN
9783869710525 (original)
9781803090818 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)