{"product_id":"the-ungrateful-refugee-by-dina-nayeri","title":"'The Ungrateful Refugee' by Dina Nayeri","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"42\" data-end=\"117\"\u003eWhat does it mean to ask for refuge, and what does the world ask in return?\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"119\" data-end=\"664\"\u003eIn this remarkable blend of memoir, reportage and political reflection, Dina Nayeri examines the stories we tell about refugees and the impossible standards they are expected to meet. Drawing on her own childhood flight from post-revolutionary Iran, she moves between refugee camps in Europe, interviews with displaced people, and the bureaucratic rituals everyone is forced to endure. Throughout, she argues that gratitude has become an unspoken condition of asylum, obscuring the reality that refuge is not a gift but a human obligation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"666\" data-end=\"1115\"\u003eThroughout, Nayeri remains attentive to its lived textures. All the waiting, paperwork, language, boredom, humiliation, hope and memory. The result is a deeply humane work that sits somewhere between memoir, political philosophy and literary journalism, and belongs alongside writers such as Kapka Kassabova, Behrouz Boochani and Rebecca Solnit in its insistence that stories can reshape the moral imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1142\" data-end=\"1296\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, first printing. Canongate, 2019. Paperback in very good condition, with clean pages, a tight binding and light shelf wear to the covers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45810593857619,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-12T110226.607.png?v=1783818247","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-ungrateful-refugee-by-dina-nayeri","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}