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Shortlisted for the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Winner of the 2022 Prix littéraire des Collégiens Nominated for the 2021 Prix des libraires du Quebec Caroline is seven years old when her family flees Pinochet's regime, leaving Chile for Montreal...

"My grandparents used to tell me Rwanda is a country unlike any other, and I knew they spoke the truth. Blessed with majestic mountains and breathtaking valleys, it is a sacred and spiritual land. And yet Rwandan men drenched the land in blood in acts of hate so horrific that the stains of those...

FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 EVERGREEN AWARD AN AUDIBLE BEST BOOK OF 2024 A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place. "Writing this memoir is a betrayal...

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of the war play out, the family bears witness from their new home of Toronto. Thangan's other son...

The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape Australia's notorious offshore detention centre--and his long search for freedom. In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar's brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of...

*WINNER OF A 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD* "A sweeping and mesmerizing story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly." --Alan...

Canadian immigrants share their stories to fight stereotypes and xenophobia. In Geographies of the Heart, eighteen newcomers to Canada tell their own stories, in their own voices. These accounts push back against misconceptions about immigration and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Shortlisted for the Jum Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes * A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year * One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction Books of the Year * The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to...

Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 50s up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers. It paints a picture of village life, his rebellion as a young Marxist and evolution into a free thinker, living in hiding as a...

For CI Financial executive Roy Ratnavel, 'started in the mailroom' is more than a cliche. That was his start on Bay Street only a few years after escaping the ethnic violence that was engulfing Sri Lanka. Ratnavel's incredible journey begins when he was 17, taken by government soldiers to a prison...

In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, eighteen-year-old Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia--but made it only as far as Bangkok before being stripped of her passport. She knew that if she was forced to return home she would be killed, like the other...

State-controlled refugee protection in Canada has gone through paradoxical developments in recent decades. While refugee rights have expanded, access to these rights has tightened. Previously unrecognized groups - such as women experiencing gender-based violence and LGBT populations - are now...

A sweeping family history, chronicling the journey of a group ofRussian refugees who settled in rural Alberta in 1924, this book paystribute to countless people who have found a safe haven in Canada overthe past 100 years. Every refugee has a story. Thisbook follows the life of...

A tender and funny debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family who will do whatever it takes to keep their no-frills nail salon afloat after a multimillion-dollar chain opens across the street. Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have made a good life for themselves in Toronto,...

A New York Times Book Review Summer Read Pick * A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of the Month * One of Booklist's Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts * One of Publishers Weekly's Writers to Watch * Named a Most Anticipated Book by The Millions,...

WINNER OF THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD NATIONAL BESTSELLER   From the widely acclaimed author of American War: a new novel--beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving--that...