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The Boat People

The Boat People

Bala, Sharon

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0525432469
ISBN13: 9780525432463
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Dec 4 2018
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Globe and Mail bestseller, 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.

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