{"product_id":"the-displaced-9781419735110","title":"The Displaced","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/em\u003e, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is \u003cem\u003eThe Displaced\u003c\/em\u003e, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to support the International Rescue Committee (IRC).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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. Yet in the United States, United Kingdom, and other countries with the means to welcome refugees, anti-immigration politics and fear seem poised to 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eViet Nguyen, called \"one of our great chroniclers of displacement\" (Joyce Carol Oates, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e), brings together writers originally from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, Ethiopia, and others 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 \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e contributors—and they are all refugees, many as children arriving in London and Toronto, Oklahoma and Minnesota, South Africa and Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir 17 contributions are as diverse as their own lives have been, and yet hold just as many themes in common. Reyna 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese essays reveal moments of uncertainty, resilience in the face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity, forming a compelling look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Displaced\u003c\/em\u003e is also a commitment: ABRAMS will donate 10 percent of the cover price of this book, a minimum of $25,000 annually, to the International Rescue Committee, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing humanitarian aid, relief, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eJoseph Azam\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eDavid Bezmozgis\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eFatima Bhutto\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThi Bui\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eAriel Dorfman\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eLev Golinkin\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eReyna Grande\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eMeron Hadero\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eAleksandar Hemon\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eJoseph Kertes\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003ePorochista Khakpour\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eMarina Lewycka\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eMaaza Mengiste\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eDina Nayeri\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eVu Tran\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eNovuyo Rosa Tshuma\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eKao Kalia Yang\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432875540716,"sku":"9781419735110","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781419735110.jpg?v=1774766229","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-displaced-9781419735110","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}