{"product_id":"the-thankless-foreigner-hardcover","title":"The Thankless Foreigner - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIrena Brezná\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRuth Ahmedzai Kemp\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel that offers a timely and important viewpoint on the immigration experience about the need for resistance to blind assimilation in a host country. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1968, in search of a better world, a young person flees her country and ends up in Switzerland, the land of hard cheese. There she's told not to talk nonsense, or not to \"talk cheese,\" as they say in the local dialect. Home is where you can grumble, but here you have to be grateful. Her new environs seem unwieldy, aloof, and she rebels against this host country that insists on her following its rules, that won't let her be herself. But as an interpreter, she meets many others who have ended up here--petty criminals, depressives, hustlers, refugees, victims of exploitation, and others who have gone out of their way to assimilate, people who share a hope that they can make something new of their lives. Gradually she learns to experience the richness of exile and foreignness, to build bridges between cultures. A brilliantly written novel about the search for identity between assimilation and resistance, Irena Brezná's \u003ci\u003eThe Thankless Foreigner\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant addition to the important literature of immigrant experience. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrena Brezná\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1950 in Bratislava, formerly Czechoslovakia, and emigrated to Switzerland in 1968. She is a journalist, writer, Slavicist, psychologist, human rights activist, and the author of ten books. \u003cb\u003eRuth Ahmedzai Kemp\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator working from German, Russian and Arabic into English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765869183264,"sku":"9781803090818","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e7c9471cf6172ea1c7a33a5296909444.webp?v=1780282045","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-thankless-foreigner-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}