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By Said, Kurban2000., Chatto & Windus Call No: Fic Sai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: First pub. 1973. Romantic novel of love and adventure and a fascinating insight into the gulf between East & West, the Oriental & the Christian worlds, where they meet at the southern most tip of Russia.
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By Akhtar, Ayadc2012., General, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Fic Akh Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young Pakistani boy, whose parents left the fundamentalists behind when they came to America, finds transformation and a path to happiness through a family friend, Mina, who shows him the beauty and power of the Quran.
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2017., Adult, Minotaur Books Call No: Fic Kha Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak series Volume: 3Summary Note: "On leave from Canada's Community Policing department, Esa Khattak is traveling in Iran, reconnecting with his cultural heritage and seeking peace in the country's beautiful mosques and gardens. But Khattak's supposed break from work is cut short when he's approached by a Canadian government agent in Iran, asking him to look into the death of renowned Canadian-Iranian filmmaker Zahra Sobhani. Zahra was murdered at Iran's notorious Evin prison, where she'd been seeking the release of a well-known political prisoner. Khattak quickly finds himself embroiled in Iran's tumultuous politics and under surveillance by the regime, but when the trail leads back to Zahra's family in Canada, Khattak calls on his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, for help. Rachel uncovers a conspiracy linked to the Shah of Iran and the decades-old murders of a group of Iran's most famous dissidents. Historic letters, a connection to the Royal Ontario Museum, and a smuggling operation on the Caspian Sea are just some of the threads Rachel and Khattak begin unraveling, while the list of suspects stretches from Tehran to Toronto. But as Khattak gets caught up in the fate of Iran's political prisoners, Rachel sees through to the heart of the matter: Zahra's murder may not have been a political crime at all."--From publisher.
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2020., Black Cat Call No: SC Fic Abo Edition: First Grove Atlantic edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Salma, Moni, and Iman--friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group--decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when she's contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni gave up a career in banking to care for her disabled son without the help of her indifferent husband; and Iman, in her twenties and already on her third marriage, longs for the freedom and autonomy she's never known. When the women are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird from Muslim and Celtic literature, they are compelled to question their relationships to faith and femininity, love, loyalty, and sacrifice.
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2020., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Maj Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: " For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise--to the middle class, to politcal power, to fame in the movies--and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely--an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humour--has the alibi that can set Jivan free, but it will cost her everything she holds dear. Taut, symphonic, propulsive, and riveting from its opening lines, A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed it can be read in a single sitting. Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance at a breakneck pace on complex themes that read here as the components of a thriller: class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism. An extraordinary debut. A novel about fate, power, opportunity, and class; about innocence and guilt, betrayal and love, and the corrosive media cycle that manufactures falsehoods masquerading as truths--A Burning is a debut novel of exceptional power and urgency, haunting and beautiful, brutal, vibrant, impossible to forget."--
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c2012., Adult, Scribner Call No: Fic Ami Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Iran in 1576 is a place of wealth and dazzling beauty. But when the Shah dies without having named an heir, the court is thrown into tumult. Princess Pari, the Shah's daughter and protégé, knows more about the inner workings of the state than almost anyone, but the princess's maneuvers to instill order after her father's sudden death incite resentment and dissent. Pari and her closest adviser, Javaher, a eunuch able to navigate the harem as well as the world beyond the palace walls, are in possession of an incredible tapestry of secrets and information that reveals a power struggle of epic proportions."-- Dust jacket.
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2020., Little, Brown and company Call No: Fic Akh Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one--least of all himself--in the process."--
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2011., Adult, Éditions L'Interligne Call No: QWF FR Fic Maz Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Il y a des romans dont la fibre même, ou l'écriture, est une clé magique qui ouvre comme un sésame sur un monde de mystères qui font peur et que l'on n'ose pas approcher parce que les vérités qu'ils recèlent sont invisibles à cause de nos préjugés de Nord-Américains. Je parle ici du roman de Monia Mazigh qui met en scène des femmes immigrantes venues d'Afrique du Nord, du Moyen-Orient et d'Asie avec leur culture, leurs espoirs, leurs différences et surtout leur religion musulmane. Ce sont des mères gardiennes des us et coutumes, maîtresses des secrets de l'Orient qui souhaitent pour leurs filles une émancipation dans le respect des valeurs de l'islam, mais en faisant aussi leurs, la modernité de l'Occident et toutes ses opportunités de bonheur. Ce sont des filles qui étudient à l'Université, spontanées, ouvertes d'esprit, qui se questionnent sur la façon de vivre leur foi dans cet Ottawa des tentations. De prime abord, les relations sont tendues entre les générations, la sacrifiée qui vit par procuration et la dépositaire d'un héritage fait de croyances et de découvertes qui remet tout en question. Il est difficile pour ces femmes de s'adapter, mais elles trouvent des complices et des amies. Leur vie leur semble alors moins cloisonnée et la lumière naît de ces échanges. Leurs destinées s'entrecroisent multipliant à l'infini les facettes de l'immigrante musulmane. Elle n'est plus seulement un voile, un niqab ou un accent qui chante, mais elle devient, sous la plume d'expérience de Monia Mazigh, un être humain doué de sensibilité et de majesté.
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2014., Adult, Arachnide Call No: QWF Fic Maz Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters. They are immigrant mothers - Emma, Samia, and Fauzia - guardians of tradition who want their daughters to enjoy freedom in Western society. They are daughters - Lama, Sally, and Louise, a young woman who converted to Islam for love - university students who are clever and computer savvy. They decide for themselves whether or not to wear a veil, or niqab. Gradually, these women cross paths, and, without losing their authenticity, they become friends and rivals, mirrors and mirages of each other.
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By Ali, Anar2019., Adult, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada Call No: Fic Ali Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "As the heir to a successful business empire in Uganda, Mansoor Visram had everything a man could want: money, power, influence, a beautiful wife, and a baby son. But when Idi Amin's regime begins its crackdown on its South Asian population, Mansoor and his family are forced to flee, leaving behind everything. As refugees, they arrive in Canada, settling in Calgary, but the strain of what the family has been through begins to show. Years later, Mansoor's son, Ashif, is a rising star in a multinational firm. He has spent years distancing himself from his overbearing father but finds himself continuously drawn back to the family he left behind. Now, his father claims he has a plan for a dry cleaning franchise that will raise the Visrams back into their old position of prominence. But after so many failed attempts to succeed, one more pipe dream may be too many for the family to bear. Night of Power examines the psychological and emotional burdens placed on a family of refugees. What they leave behind and what they hope to gain in the future are all carefully weighed in Anar Ali's beautifully crafted prose that reflects the dream-like quality of past triumphs and the vivid realism of today."--.
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c2014., Adult, Tyrant Books Call No: Fic Lis Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Zou Lei, a Chinese Muslim of the Uighur tribe, enters the U.S. via Mexico, and makes her way to New York City. Keeping a low profile and employed in a restaurant, she meets Skinner, a veteran of the Iraqi war, who's afflicted with PTSD.
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2023., Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Call No: Fic Abo Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice.
