Results for: books tagged ‘Immigration’
The Ordinary Seaman: Francisco Goldman
The ordinary seaman is Esteban, a 19-year-old veteran of the war in Nicaragua who has come to America with fourteen other men to crew the boat 'Urus'. Docked on a ... More
San Diego: David Greig
San Diego weaves together a series of connecting and diverging stories, merging threads that stretch around the globe into a single compelling narrative of tremendous scope; stories of illegal immigrants, ... More
Maps for Lost Lovers: Nadeem Aslam
In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for ... More
My Ear at His Heart: Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own ... More
Look We Have Coming to Dover!: Daljit Nagra
Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose ... More
Drown: Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz made his remarkable debut as a writer with this collection of stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New ... More
The War After: Anne Karpf
Anne Karpf's parents survived the Nazi Holocaust. Her mother, a concert pianist when she was eighteen, was a survivor of Plaszow and Auschwitz concentrations camps. Her father survived several Russian ... More
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Junot Diaz
The long-awaited first novel from one of today’s most original and electrifying literary voices. Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in ... More
A Wavering Grace: Gavin Young
As an Observer correspondent in Vietnam before the American withdrawal in 1975, Gavin Young met many courageous Vietnamese people. He frequently stayed with one such person, Madame Bong, a woman ... More
The Black Album - adapted for the stage: Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi’s witty stage adaptation of his strikingly prescient and acclaimed novel, The Black Album, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2009. More
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