The Thankless Foreigner
Brezna, Irena / Ahmedzai Kemp, Ruth 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....