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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MIGRATION LITERATURE KARTON...

[Ahmad's] introduction is fiery and charismatic... This book encompasses the diversity of
experience  with beautiful variations and stories that bicker back and forth. --Parul Sehgal 
The New York TimesThe 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 InsideA 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.

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