The boat people / Sharon Bala.
The boat people / Sharon Bala.
By
:
Bala, Sharon.
Publication Date
:
2018
Publication Information
:
Toronto : McClellan & Stewart,
Physical Description
:
401 p.
Subject Term
:
Refugees -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Legal stories.
Summary
:
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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780771024290
9780771024313
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