"En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemania azi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad en el interior del Estado de Nueva York. El padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al único trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio. Los prejuicios locales y la debilidad emocional de los Schwart suscitan una terrible tragedia familiar. Rebecca, la hija del sepulturero, comienza entonces...

"¿Por qué la gente deja su país, su familia y sus costumbres en busca de un mundo que muchas veces sólo conoce de oídas? ¿Por qué es tan poderoso el sueño americano? Los veinte relatos que componen este libro son historias de seres que, voluntaria o involuntariamente, se enfrentan a la necesidad de adaptarse a una realidad que no es la suya. Son historias de esperanza y de lucha, donde personajes entrañables buscan un lugar propio en este...

As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister's footsteps. And their estranged son, Amar, returns to the family for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets...

"An account of an immigrant family's struggle and the lessons learned about diversity Writing at the height of her powers, The Bad Immigrant cements Sefi Atta's place as one of the best storytellers of our time. Through the voice of her first male protagonist, Lukmon, Atta peels away nuanced layers to expose the realities of migration from Nigeria to the USA, such as the strains of adjustment and the stifling pressure to conform without loss of identity....

"The unnamed protagonist of this brilliantly written, powerfully affecting novel - by the critically acclaimed author of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite and The Snows of Yesteryear - is Central European by birth but American since World War II: a man shaped in equal measure by the breeding and wealth he inherited and the cynicism he mastered on his own. Suddenly, without warning or farewell, he removes himself from the arena of his daily life: from his...