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12%OFFSuad Aldarra - I Don´t Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging - 9781781620625 - 9781781620625
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I Don´t Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging

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Description for I Don´t Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging Paperback. **Growing up in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, Suad Aldarra never quite felt at home. The daughter of Syrian migrants, she railed against the extreme strictures placed on women in Saudi society. When the opportunity came to study software engineering at Damascus University, she jumped at the chance for a degree of freedom she'd never known. But when the war came, everything changed. Suddenly Suad and her new husband Housam were thrown into a world of relentless pressure; first fleeing to post-Arab Spring Egypt, Suad's work as a data scientist was a saving grace that allowed her to come to Ireland as an economic migrant. Yet reaching safety came at a price... I Don't Want to Talk About Home is not a memoir about war and destruction. It's not about camps or boats. It's about what came before and how to build a life out of the rubble. With great warmth and insight, Suad writes about those left behind, the sacrifices made, and the parts of yourself you lose when integrating into a new world and culture

Powerful, fascinating and deeply moving - this book pushes aside our lazy images of human migration and refugees. I loved it.
RODDY DOYLE, author of Love

THE BESTSELLING MEMOIR - SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR

'I carry my troubled homeland within me; I hide it like a crime.'

Growing up in conservative Saudi Arabia, Suad Aldarra felt stifled by the strictures placed on women. She yearned for the vibrant Syrian streets of her family's origin. When the opportunity arose to study at Damascus University, she jumped at the chance to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781781620625
SKU
9781781620625
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Suad Aldarra
Suad Aldarra is a writer and data scientist based in Dublin. She was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Syrian parents. In 2003 she moved back to her family home in Syria to study software engineering. After fleeing the war in 2012 she lived in Egypt and the US, before eventually settling in Ireland. In 2021, Suad was awarded the ... Read more

Reviews for I Don´t Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging
Powerful, fascinating and deeply moving - this book pushes aside our lazy images of human migration and refugees. I loved it.
Roddy Doyle, author of Love Full of heart, honesty and hard-learnt wisdom, I Don't Want To Talk About Home addresses complex issues about identity, belonging and family. This book took me on a captivating journey across ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for I Don´t Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging


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