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The boat people : a novel
First edition.
Bala, Sharon, author.
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Doubleday, |
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[2018] |
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338 pages ; |
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9780385542296 |
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| PS 8603 A463 B63 2018 |
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.:Place Hold
The boat people : a novel
First edition.
Bala, Sharon, author.
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The boat people : a novel
First edition.
Bala, Sharon, author.
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Personal Author:
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Bala, Sharon, author.
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Title:
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The boat people : a novel / Sharon Bala.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Publication:
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New York : Doubleday, [2018]
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Copyright date:
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©2018
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Physical description:
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338 pages ; 25 cm
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text txt
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unmediated n
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Subject term:
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Refugees--Canada--Fiction.
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Fathers and sons--Fiction.
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Genre index term:
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Domestic fiction.
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Summary:
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"For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan; his lawyer, Priya, a second-generation Sri Lankan Canadian who reluctantly represents the refugees; and Grace, a third-generation Japanese Canadian adjudicator who must decide Mahindan's fate as evidence mounts against him, The Boat People is a spellbinding and timely novel that provokes a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis"--
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Summary:
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"A debut novel about a thirty-five-year-old Sri Lankan refugee who has survived the harrowing experiences of civil war, a prison camp, and a perilous ocean voyage to Canada -- but his journey has only begun, as he and his young son navigate the morass of the refugee system"--
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ISBN:
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9780385542296 (hardcover)
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ISBN:
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0385542291 (hardcover)
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ISBN:
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9780525432463 (softcover)
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ISBN:
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0525432469 (softcover)
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ISBN:
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(ISBN invalid)9780385542302 (eBook)
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key:
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8150172
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LCCN:
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2017020049
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