The Thankless
Foreigner
translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
January 2023
160 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-1-80309-081-8
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. A brilliantly written book about the search for identity between assimilation and resistance, Irena Brežná’s The Thankless Foreigner is a significant addition to the important literature of immigrant experience.