The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns

Synopsis

The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything Inside

A Penguin Classic

Every year, three to four million people move to a new country. From war refugees to corporate expats, migrants constantly reshape their places of origin and arrival. This selection of works collected together for the first time brings together the most compelling literary depictions of migration.

Organized in four parts (Departures, Arrivals, Generations, and Returns), The Penguin Book of Migration Literature conveys the intricacy of worldwide migration patterns, the diversity of immigrant experiences, and the commonalities among many of those diverse experiences. Ranging widely across the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, across every continent of the earth, and across multiple literary genres, the anthology gives readers an understanding of our rapidly changing world, through the eyes of those at the center of that change. With thirty carefully selected poems, short stories, and excerpts spanning three hundred years and twenty-five countries, the collection brings together luminaries, emerging writers, and others who have earned a wide following in their home countries but have been less recognized in the Anglophone world.

Editor of the volume Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction, notes, and suggestions for further exploration.

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780525505167

Related ISBNs:

9780143133384

Publisher:

Penguin Publishing Group

Date of Addition:

09/17/19

Copyrighted By:

Dohra Ahmad. Foreword copyright

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Dohra Ahmad

Foreword by:

Edwidge Danticat

Introduction by:

Dohra Ahmad