The Displaced : Refugee Writers On Refugee Lives

Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen

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  • : $35.00 AUD
  • : 9781419729485
  • : Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
  • : Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
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  • : 0.317515
  • : January 2018
  • : 210mm X 140mm
  • : United States
  • : August 2017
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  • : Viet Thanh Nguyen
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  • : Hardback
  • : 2018
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  • : English
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Description

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained. In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience. Featuring original essays by a collection of writers from around the world, The Displaced is an indictment of closing our doors, and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge.

Author description

Viet Thanh Nguyen 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.