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| 005 | 20230223111202.0 | ||
| 008 | 170619s2018 nyu 000 1 eng | ||
| 020 | _a9780385542296 (hardcover) | ||
| 020 | _a9780525432463 (softcover) | ||
| 041 | _aeng | ||
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_a813.6 _bBAL |
| 100 | 1 |
_aBala, Sharon, _927612 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 |
_aThe boat people / _cSharon Bala. |
| 250 | _aFirst Edition. | ||
| 300 |
_a338 pages ; 25 cm _eHardcover |
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| 520 | _a"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"-- | ||
| 520 | _a"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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_aRefugees _927613 |
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_aFathers and sons _927614 |
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| 650 | 7 |
_aFICTION / Family Life. _927615 |
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| 650 | 7 |
_aFICTION / Cultural Heritage. _927616 |
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| 650 | 7 |
_aFICTION / Legal. _927617 |
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| 942 | _cBK | ||
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