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    The Boat People: A Novel

    Written by Sharon Bala

    Narrated by Athena Karkanis

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    By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada - only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.
     
    When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father is overcome with relief: he and his six-year-old son can finally put Sri Lanka's bloody civil war behind them and begin new lives. Instead, the group is thrown into prison, with government officials and news headlines speculating that hidden among the "boat people" are members of a terrorist militia. As suspicion swirls and interrogation mounts, Mahindan fears the desperate actions he took to survive and escape Sri Lanka now jeopardize his and his son's chances for asylum.
                Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan; his lawyer Priya, who reluctantly represents the migrants; and Grace, a third-generation Japanese-Canadian adjudicator who must decide Mahindan's fate, The Boat People is a high-stakes novel that offers a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis. Inspired by real events, with vivid scenes that move between the eerie beauty of northern Sri Lanka and combative refugee hearings in Vancouver, where life and death decisions are made, Sharon Bala's stunning debut is an unforgettable and necessary story for our times.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 9, 2018
    ISBN9780771001864
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    The Boat People: A Novel
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    Sharon Bala

    Sharon Bala, geb. 1979 in Dubai, lebt seit 1986 in Kanada, ihre Familie stammt aus Sri Lanka. Sie hat an der Queen’s University/Kingston und der University of Toronto studiert. Ihr Debütroman »The Boat People« (2018) wurde in Kanada ein großer Erfolg, gewann mehrere Preise, u. a. den Harper Lee Prize for Legal ­Fiction (2019), den Amazon Canada First Novel Award (2018) und den Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (2019), und wurde in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt.

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    • 5/5
      This was an excellent book! It demonstrates that there are always two sides to everyone's story and that things aren't always as they first appear to outsiders. It was so well read by Athena Karkanis. She made all of the voices believable. It was a pleasure to listen to her.