Mhāǧrw ālqārb / Sharon Bala.

Mhāǧrw ālqārb / Sharon Bala.

Alternate Title
Boat people

By
Bala, Sharon.

Publication Date
2018

Publication Information
[S.I. : Fawasel Publishing and Distribution],

Physical Description
479 p.

Subject Term
Refugees -- Fiction.
 
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
 
Domestic fiction.
 
Arabic 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
Arabic

ISBN
9789933927745

General Note
Arabic translation of "The Boat People."


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall NumberStatus
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH)Adult Fic NL MultilingualAdult Fiction NL MultilingualARA FIC BALChecked In
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH)Adult Fic NL Ref - Cons RmAdult Fiction NL Reference - Conservation RoomARA FIC BALNonCirculating