Asylum : breaking the fourth wall ; Ransomed (anatomy of a refugee) /
"A flip book, Asylum/Ransomed features two separate titles. In Asylum, join Sameer in a classroom under Taliban rule. Escape persecution in a plastic dingy with Mohammad. Witness the brutality of a Ugandan orphanage. Feel Mahwish's agony as she searches through garbage dumps to feed her un...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) :
Guernica Editions,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Essential prose series ;
163. |
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| Summary: | "A flip book, Asylum/Ransomed features two separate titles. In Asylum, join Sameer in a classroom under Taliban rule. Escape persecution in a plastic dingy with Mohammad. Witness the brutality of a Ugandan orphanage. Feel Mahwish's agony as she searches through garbage dumps to feed her unborn baby. And then--come with them to Canada. Experience new tortures, new pains--and sometimes, smatterings of joy and peace. Ransomed is the story of quarries: of the hunted, the displaced--the world's refugees. In a Canadian resettlement centre, English teacher Sarah struggles to find meaning among refugees who are learning to live again. When she travels on a pilgrimage to Israel, she discovers how to walk with others in the aftermath of unspeakable horror."-- "Asylum features interviews with sixteen Canadian refugees from around the world. The interviews are shaped into a five-act play in the likeness of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to address poignant questions about what is true, what is real. Philosophers, artists, and politicians take the stage alongside the refugees to highlight stories of war, displacement, and being other."-- |
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| Item Description: | Titles from separate title pages; works issued back-to-back and inverted. |
| Physical Description: | 248, 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm. Issued also in electronic format. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781771833875 1771833874 |