Toxic Fries: A Beautiful Foreign Child
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"This book relentlessly describes how identities change in foreign lands. It's sometimes funny, sometimes painful - and written so vividly that one doesn't forget the characters in this book quickly."
stern, 21/03/24
"What has this new life cost us? My father's voice, my mother's vitality. And me?"
Fleeing the war in Yugoslavia, the family moves to a host country that does not really want to be one. This book tells the story of the relationship between a daughter, whose sole purpose in life is to become the perfect immigrant, and her father, who loses himself in trying to make this possible for her.
Toxische Pommes, whose real name is Irina, works as a lawyer in Vienna. She has hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram and performs her cabaret show "Ketchup, Mayo & Ajvar - The Seven Deadly Sins of the Foreigner" to sold-out venues in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. In 2024, her debut novel "A Beautiful Foreign Child" was published by Zsolnay.
Reading and discussion with Toxische Pommes
Moderation: Jérôme Jaminet
In German language
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Tickets: 10 € | 5 € (<26 years) | 1.50 € (Culture Pass)
Organization: Institut Pierre Werner in cooperation with the Austrian Embassy in Luxembourg
Support: neimënster
Automatically translated from German.
Where does it take place?
Institut Pierre Werner
28
rue Münster
2160 Luxembourg
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