Irena Brežná

Roman

Die undankbare Fremde

Jürgen Kehrer

Alex Capus

Sandra Lüpkes

Arno Camenisch

Tanja Kummer

Andrea Keller

Brigitte Schorr

Matto Kämpf

Thomas C. Breuer

Ernst Bromeis

Flurin Caviezel

Daniela Dill

Heinz D. Heisl

Pedro Lenz

Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart

Achim Parterre

Sabine Reber

Daniel Rohr

Thomas Sarbacher

Ariela Sarbacher

Monika Schärer

Esther Schaudt

Elisabeth Schnell

Marco Todisco

Vincenzo Todisco

Mona Vetsch

Perlen-Reihe

Zimmerservice

A novel that offers a timely and important viewpoint on the immigration experience about the need for resistance to blind assimilation in a host country. 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 The Thankless Foreigner is a significant addition to the important literature of immigrant experience.

The Thankless Foreigner

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Postrehy emigrantky

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Soubor reportáží a esejů z čečenské války doplňují texty Ireny Brežné věnované Rusku, jeho historii, zejména gulagu, mafii, ruské povaze i každodenním problémům této země.

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