Better Lives: Refugee Stories
The Bone Sparrow : shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017
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Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2014-10-9 Pages: 320 Publisher: Hachette International Reading website Goodreads named 2013 Best biographical works .I come from a country that was created at midnight When I almost died it was just after midday. .When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.On Tuesday. October 9. 2012. when she was fifteen. she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school. and few expected her to survive.Instead. Malalas miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen. she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the No...
Author: Malala Yousafazi
Format: Soft cover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Publication Date: 2014
In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.
'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.' Peter Craven, Heat
'Nam Le is . . . a disturber of the peace.
'Consider the subjects of his stories- a child assassin in Colombia ('Cartagena'), an ageing New York artist desperate for a reconciliation with his daughter ('Meeting Elise'), a boy's coming of age in a rough Victorian fishing town ('Halflead Bay'), before the first atomic bomb falls in Japan ('Hiroshima'), The suffocations of theocracy in Iran ('Tehran Calling'). This astonishing range is topped and tailed by accounts of the uneasy reunion of a young Vietnamese writer in America with his ex-soldier father, and by the title story - the escape of a group of exhausted refugees from the Vietcong in a wallowing boat.
'One might be permitted to think, after all this high seriousness and intensity, Nam Le can't do funny. But this criminally talented 29-year-old can do that as well.' Barry Oakley, Australian Literary Review
'Stunning'
The Times
'A fearless new Australian voice that accepts no geographical limits- these are stories of leaping power and the most breath-taking grace and intimacy.' Helen Garner
'Wonderful stories that snarl and pant across our crazed world . . . an extraordinary performance. Nam Le is a heartbreaker, not easily forgotten.' Junot Diaz
'The fiction debut of the year.' James Ley, Australian Book Review
'The best book debut of 2008.' New York Magazine
'The runaway literary success of 2008.' Weekend Australian
Author: Nam Le
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Publication Date: 02 Mar 2009