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| fixed length control field |
02395aam a22003498i 4500 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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000045130404 |
| CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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| control field |
CaOOAMICUS |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20170427100518.0 |
| FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
170427s2018 onc 000 1 eng |
| NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
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| Record control number |
20179028839 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780771024290 (tr. pbk.) |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
CaOONL |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
CaOONL |
| CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED IN CANADA |
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| Classification number |
PS8603 A463 |
| Item number |
B63 2018 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
C813/.6 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Bala, Sharon, |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The boat people / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Sharon Bala. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
401 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father believes the struggles that he and his six-year-old son have long faced are finally over. But their journey has only just begun. The group is thrown into a detention processing centre, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among "the boat people" are members of a separtist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these insurgents now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees are subjected to heavy interrogation, Mahindan fears 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. Set in Vancouver, with riveting scenes in civil war-torn Sri Lanka, the novel asks difficult but necessary questions that will continue to be relevant as the world-wide crisis remains a reality for years to come. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Refugees |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Fathers and sons |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
02. English Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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| d |
F BAL |
| c |
410 |
