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Title Statement | Night of power / [book club set] / Anar Ali. |
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Author | Ali, Anar |
Publication | [Toronto]: Viking,2019. |
Extent of Item | 234 pages |
ISBN | 0670064262 (pbk.) 9780670064267 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3599752 |
Summary | As the heir to a successful business empire in Uganda, Mansoor Visram had everything a man could want: money, power, influence, a beautiful wife, and a baby son. But when Idi Amin's regime begins its crackdown on its South Asian population, Mansoor and his family are forced to flee, leaving behind everything. As refugees, they arrive in Canada, settling in Calgary, but the strain of what the family has been through begins to show. Years later, Mansoor's son, Ashif, is a rising star in a multinational firm. He has spent years distancing himself from his overbearing father but finds himself continuously drawn back to the family he left behind. Now, his father claims he has a plan for a dry cleaning franchise that will raise the Visrams back into their old position of prominence. But after so many failed attempts to succeed, one more pipe dream may be too many for the family to bear. |
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By Topic | Refugees--Fiction--Canada |
Businessmen--Fiction | |
Families--Fiction | |
By Location | Calgary (Alta.)--Fiction |