[Nayeri's] exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent. -The New Yorker Rich and colorful... [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere. -New York Times Crystalline, vivid, moving, and without pretensions, Nayeri's writing is fluid and spare...Refuge is a timely novel, about a theme that touches and moves so many, no matter where you are from. -Los Angeles Review of Books [An] urgent, resonating contemporary story, highlighting today's scattered, displaced, lost, all-forced-to-be refugees in search of the titular refuge... Nayeri carefully illuminates the plight of the ever-searching, never-belonging global wanderer. -The Christian Science Monitor As the daughter of an immigrant father, the cultural divides that can exist within families is always on my mind. I love stories that explore questions of home, a central theme of Refuge. How do we relate to the homes of our parents, especially if they aren't ours? How do we build homes when we haven't left the old ones freely? -Elle Dina Nayeri focuses on the relationship between an Iranian father and daughter as they explore the experience of exile from different sides of the world and there is so much beauty and pain expressed in her prose... I'll be recommending it to everyone I know. It's stunning. -Buzzfeed The immigrant experience is at the heart of Dina Nayeri's powerful novel of a family split by circumstances. -Minneapolis Star-Tribune A lush, brimming novel of exile. -Newsday Topical and urgent. -W Magazine A nuanced look at what it means to seek refuge; novels don't get more timely than this. -The Millions Dina Nayeri's Refuge is a searing and moving meditation on the migrant experience...Against the ebb and flow of their separations and reconciliations, Nayeri charts the desperate journeys and the hopes and fates of other refugees of different nationalities seeking sanctuary in Europe. A timely read and a compelling one. -Malcolm Forbes for The National Refuge should be required summer reading in 2017... a beautiful and poignant portrait of the many different experiences of the displaced. A timely and necessary work... a vital read for anyone trying to understand what it means to lose and look for home. -Bustle Nayeri, who was an Iranian refugee herself, has written a novel that explores the current worldwide refugee crisis through the lens of a father-daughter relationship. -Brightly Niloo's story, and her complex relationship with her father, expose a narrative of immigration that is necessary and nuanced. -Read It Forward A poignant reflection on the plight of refugees... Nayeri uses gentle humor and evocative prose to illuminate the power of familial bonds and to bestow individuality on those anonymous people caught between love of country and need for refuge. A beautiful addition to the burgeoning literature of exile. -Library Journal (starred review) Richly imagined and frequently moving... [manages] various threads-the personal, the political, the cultural, the generational-deftly, and the result is poignant, wise, and often funny...a vital, timely novel about what it means to seek refuge. -Kirkus Set against landscapes of political unrest, Nayeri's novel of a daughter and father seeking to reconcile their long-distance perceptions of family offers a captivating, multilayered exploration of lives caught between worlds. -Booklist A heart-splicing portrayal of the current refugee crisis...These are people who, seeking asylum, arrive in countries that aren't their own but must be made inhabitable, if not home. -The Riveter A nuanced and remarkably textured narrative about a world few of us experience. -BookPage Nayeri's prose sings while moving nimbly with equal parts seriousness and humor. -Publishers Weekly Beautifully elegiac, Refuge brings into focus the entire experience of emigrat Skryť popis