The Boat People
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…
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August 11, 2020
Sharon Bala’s bestselling debut novel, The Boat People, won the 2020 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award and the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. It was a finalist for Canada Reads 2018, the 2018 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. The Boat People is on sale worldwide with translations in French, German, Arabic, and Turkish. The unpublished manuscript won the Percy Janes First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers.
In 2017 Sharon won the Writers’ Trust/ McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize for…
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The Boat People
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The Journey Prize Stories 30
Selected by Sharon Bala, Kerry Clare, and Zoey Leigh Peterson
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Kim Thúy Translated by Sheila Fischman
A Minor Chorus
Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl
A Great Country
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Until August
Gabriel García Márquez
The Golden Doves
Martha Hall Kelly
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Nobody Asked for This
Georgia Toews
Flesh
David Szalay
Curiosities
Anne Fleming
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
Helen Simonson
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Universality
Natasha Brown
Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange