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Lena Rexhepi

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Lena Rexhepi is a writer, storyteller, and former child refugee from Ferizaj, Kosovo who grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark after fleeing the Kosovo War at the age of nine in 1999.

Her writing explores identity, belonging, migration, womanhood, love, success, failure ambition, and the complicated space between the places we call home. Her work is deeply shaped by her own experience of growing up between cultures, building a life in Denmark, and navigating the expectations placed on women and people with immigrant backgrounds.

Lena holds a master’s degree from Copenhagen Business School and has built an international career spanning finance and the pharmaceutical industry. She has studied and worked across Europe and the United States and has volu
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But Where Are You Really From? by Lena Rexhepi
""But Where Are You Really From?" is the debut of writer Albulena Rexhepi. In it, she describes her journey as a child of the beautiful but oppressed Kosovo, towards Denmark where she together with her family must rebuild their life after having lost " Read more of this review »
But Where Are You Really From? by Lena Rexhepi
"This book is definitely a must-read! The book made me think about how a simple question like “Where are you really from?” can carry so much more meaning than what you might think. Lena’s experiences with displacement, discrimination, ambition, and th" Read more of this review »
But Where Are You Really From? by Lena Rexhepi
"The story is heavy and vulnerable. The woman behind the book is powerful. Every single word is so well considered that there are words behind each word."
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I obviously recommend my own debut book :) New Author to Goodreads<3

Not because I wrote it, but because I truly believe that this story needs to be heard, and that the topics and emotions in the book are universal.

Give it a go.

It’s an easy read, wit
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“IT´S NOT ALWAYS THAT I FEEL DIFFERENT. I AM JUST REMINDED OF IT.
CONSTANTLY.
THAT BELONGING HAS CONDITIONS”.”
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“A refugee does not leave their homeland for fun. They leave to save their lives”
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See the Invisible by Manish  Gaur
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Life is full of things that are invisible. What a sentence!

This book is a short and easy book to read but more importantly it makes you stop up and think.
Like truly evaluate your thought process and the way you live and think about life.

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“IT´S NOT ALWAYS THAT I FEEL DIFFERENT. I AM JUST REMINDED OF IT.
CONSTANTLY.
THAT BELONGING HAS CONDITIONS”.”
Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

“MY EMPATHY IS NOT A VIRTUE, IT´S THE SCAR OF MY SURVIVAL”.”
Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

“To belong everywhere and nowhere at the same time. To carry one home in memory and another in daily life!”
Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

“MY EMPATHY IS NOT A VIRTUE, IT´S THE SCAR OF MY SURVIVAL”.”
Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

“A refugee does not leave their homeland for fun. They leave to save their lives”
Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

“IT´S NOT ALWAYS THAT I FEEL DIFFERENT. I AM JUST REMINDED OF IT.
CONSTANTLY.
THAT BELONGING HAS CONDITIONS”.”
Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

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