Boat People [Audiobook] download free by Sharon Bala
- Listen audiobook: Boat People
- Author: Sharon Bala
- Release date: 2018/12/3
- Publisher: ALFRED A. KNOPF
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Crime and Thriller
- ISBN: 9780385544023
- Rating: 8.59 of 10
- Votes: 771
- Review by: Magdalena Johnson
- Review rating: 8.09 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/12
- Duration: 3H54M39S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-11
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, Vorbis, WAV, MP3, AIFF, WMA, FLAC (compression RAR, TGZ, ZIP, LHA, TAR.Z)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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. 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Political & Legal
- Download servers: Dropbox, FileCupid, BitShare, Hotfile, FileWhopper, Microsoft OneDrive, FreakShare, Torrent, pCloud, Uploaded. Compressed in RAR, TGZ, ZIP, LHA, TAR.Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.56 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x30mm
- Weight: 501g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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