The boat people / Sharon Bala ; translated from English by Véronique Lessard and Marc Charron.
The boat people / Sharon Bala ; translated from English by Véronique Lessard and Marc Charron.
By
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Bala, Sharon.
Publication Date
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2020
Publication Information
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Montréal, Qué. : Mémoire d'encrier,
Physical Description
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441 p.
Subject Term
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French fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Genre
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Legal stories.
Additional Contributors
:
Lessard, Véronique, 1979- ,
Charron, Marc, 1963- ,
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.
Language
:
French
ISBN
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9782897126971
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic NL Multilingual | Adult Fiction NL Multilingual | FIC BAL | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Fiction NL Reference - Conservation Room | FIC BAL | NonCirculating |