Refuge
Subtitle: a novel
By: Dina Nayeri
Publisher: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781594487057
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Culture conflict; Fiction
Description: "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 more their lives diverge, but also the more 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?"--Amazon.com