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It revolves around Amory de Catinat, a Huguenot guardsman of Louis XIV, and Amos Green, an American who comes to visit France.Major themes include Louis XIV's marriage to Madame de Maintenon, retirement from court of Madame de Montespan, the revoking of the Edict of Nantes (1685) and the subsequent emigration of the Huguenot de Catinats to America.
The Refugees is a 2017 short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen. [4] It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer. The eight-story collection, set in different locations in California and Vietnam, earned favorable reviews from critics, particularly for offering ...
Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2019. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany , 1980s Cuba , and modern-day Syria .
Boy 87 (Refugee 87) is a contemporary novel by Ele Fountain. The refugee crisis is one of the themes in this novel. It is published by Pushkin Children's Books in the UK and by Little Brown in the US (as Refugee 87). The book was written while the author was living in Ethiopia.
Jenny Sawyer writing in The Christian Science Monitor credit's Fleming's ability to tell the personal story and frame it in the wider refugee crisis, but also notes the lack of Al Zamel's own voice, the story only ever being told by the third party narrator. [4] Hannah Solel writing in the Financial Times called the book gripping and moving. [1]
According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on 36 critic reviews with 19 being "rave" and 12 being "positive" and four being "mixed" and one being "pan". [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In its starred review , Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Nguyen is deft at balancing his hero's existential despair with the lurid glow of a crime saga."
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The Refugees is a 2015 drama television series created by Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira, Cristóbal Garrido and Adolfo Valor. [1] [2] The series is a joint production of BBC Worldwide and Atresmedia that premiered on laSexta on 7 May 2015. It shows a rural community faced with millions of refugees from the future seeking shelter in the present. [3]