This is a gripping, page-turning memoir of a US-trained Iranian fighter pilot who flew in the Shah of Iran’s and the Ayatollah Khomeini’s air force. Sharifirad was shot down in the Iraqi-Iranian war in the early 1990s. Saved by a group...
Political refugees
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Author:Sharifirad, YadollahSummary: -
Author:Salazar, RebeccaSummary:Ce recueil engagé de Rebecca Salazar nous transporte tantôt à Sudbury, ville où l'autrice a grandi, tantôt dans la région de Fredericton, son lieu d'accueil, tantôt encore chez ses aïeux en Colombie. Des réflexions percutantes...
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Author:Boochani, BehrouzSummary:Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text...
- Author:Zia, HelenSummary:
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today.
“A true page-turner...
- Author:Thi, Kim Phuc PhanSummary:
Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames-before napalm bombs...
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Author:Dashtgard, AnnahidSummary:Annahid Dashtgard was born into a supportive mixed-race family in 1970s Iran. Then came the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ushered in a powerful and orthodox religious regime. Her family was forced to flee their homeland, immigrating to...
- Author:Mulder, MichelleSummary:
Ten-year-old Rosario Ramirez and her family are political refugees from Mexico, trying to make a new life in Canada. After being teased at school, Rosario vows not to speak English again until she can speak with an accent that’s one...
- Author:Allende, IsabelSummary:
In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them...
