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Title Statement | The boat people / Sharon Bala. |
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Author | Bala, Sharon |
Publication | New York: Doubleday,[2018]©2018 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 338 pages ; |
ISBN | 0385542291 9780385542296 |
Other Number | 3232188 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father believes the struggles that he and his six-year-old son have long faced are finally over. But their journey has only just begun. The group is thrown into prison, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among "the boat people" are members of a terrorist militia infamous for suicide attacks. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Refugees--Fiction--Sri Lanka |
Refugees--Fiction--Canada | |
Women lawyers--Fiction | |
Fathers and sons--Fiction | |
Trials (Terrorism)--Fiction | |
By Location | Sri Lanka--Fiction--History--Civil War, 1983-2009 |
Vancouver (B.C.)--Fiction |