Who Gets Believed?
- Author Dina Nayeri
- Narrator Ayesha Antoine
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 10 hours and 52 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Ethics and moral philosophy, History, Memoirs, Refugees and political asylum, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social and cultural anthropology, Social and cultural history, Social and political philosophy, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Society and Social Sciences.
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What to expect
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The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?
Dina Nayeri's wide-ranging, groundbreaking new book combines deep reportage with her own life experience to examine what constitutes believability in our society. Intent on exploring ideas of persuasion and performance, Nayeri takes us behind the scenes in emergency rooms, corporate boardrooms, asylum interviews and into her own family, to ask - where lies the difference between being believed and being dismissed? What does this mean for our culture?
As personal as it is profound in its reflections on language, history, morality and compassion, Who Gets Believed? investigates the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another.
'Ambitious and moving... it will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller of the refugee experience' Guardian
'An important, courageous, brilliant book' Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author of Underland
'Dina Nayeri asks an incredibly important question, and the answers she finds are crucial for all of us' Oliver Bullough, bestselling author of Butler to the World
'I was hugely moved by this book. Who Gets Believed? is essential reading, an extraordinary labour of love and hope that is destined to become indispensable in the continuing struggle for justice' John Burnside, winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2023
©2023 Dina Nayeri (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
An elegant telling of truth to power… published at a poignant moment
An important, courageous, brilliant book; an interrogation of “disbelief culture” and the injustice that both fuels it and is fuelled by it, a form-shifting memoir of an already-remarkable life, and a moving, harrowing investigation of love, loss and care.
I was hugely moved by this book … Essential reading, an extraordinary labor of love and hope that is destined to become indispensable in the continuing struggle for justice.
Instantly gripping… an ambitious and moving exploration of the border we draw around credible victimhood, and will cement Nayeri’s position as a master story teller of the refugee experience
Nayeri’s mesmerizing, genre-bending book braids together narratives of asylum seekers, exonerated felons, and religious converts … Heartbreaking and hopeful. Reading this book will upend your preconceptions about who is worthy of belief, as writing it did for Nayeri herself.
A compelling, generous, and distinctive inquiry into the nature of belief, credibility, and, above all, the deeply unjust and unequal societies in which we live.
A profound, gorgeous, devastating book, exhilarating in both its compassion and its contemplation of pain … Who Gets Believed? is that rarest of creations, an original work about a condition in which we are all implicated.
A truly remarkable book, where universal and deeply personal themes are powerfully interwoven … A masterclass in storytelling, teasing out the crucial implications of ‘who gets believed’ for all of us.
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