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This passionate book describes the author's struggles against Islamophobia as it applies to women, especially those wearing hijab, who consistently get stereotyped as silent and compliant women dominated by their men.

Lien Chao's new collection of stories is about Toronto as a meeting place for people of all backgrounds. Set in the decades from the 1980s to the 2020s, the stories depict the ripple effects of China's economic success, the peak of business globalization, and its inevitable decline during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sargasso Sea Scrolls takes us on an evocative journey to the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, evoking slave experiences through historical remains, human memories, and the poet's own associations with his native West Africa and current homes in Puerto Rico and Canada.

These nine stories by Chinese young people describe Chinatowns: those of the past, those that were moved, those that are redesigned and lose their character, and those of the future.

The book is an utaniki, a poetic travel journal comprised of haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, zappai and various Japanese imagist sequences. It records a journey undertaken by the author and his family, c 1980, from northeastern Nigeria down to Lagos in the southwest and up the west coast of West Africa.

Streams That Lead Somewhere is Fareh Malik's debut collection of poetry, aiming to explore the intersection between mental illness and social racialization. Fareh Malik dives deep into his long history with Islamophobia, racism, and forms of discrimination.

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Raymond Dossougbé flees the misery of his hometown in Benin and arrives in Toronto, where he is immediately charmed by it. But as he becomes familiar with the city and its inhabitants, he sees deep poverty, extreme wealth, and the consequences of police brutality. Eventually he finds his bearings in this new world and comes to a better understanding of his new self and the colourful characters around him.

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This is a gripping and unique collection of linked stories full of local colour (rural Portugal and Toronto), that gives us a glimpse into the lives of the Portuguese.

The mask has become emblematic of the 2020 pandemic. It is also an important symbol of Japanese classical culture and tradition, a central motif of Noh Theatre as well as Kabuki. For Terry Watada, the mask not only conceals but reveals hidden truths of the bearer. It is with this mind that he wrote the poems for The Mask.

The third novel in the quintet depicts the lives of the people in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka. A time of people leaving, police and army repression, bombs falling indiscriminately, people taken away never to return. "The reality of their circumstances had drained their lives of colour. It was a time when everyday stabbings, deaths, and shattered limbs were becoming a part of their story. Death swooped before their eyes, randomly snatched peop...

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The final and shortest novel of the quintet is a coda that brings together several of its displaced characters in unexpected ways. The noble monk Sankarananda Thero meets a tragic end, but he remains an inspiration for Thiravi, who finds the direction he has been searching for for years. Suthan reunites with his mother and sister briefly in India, but their relationships remain strained. Thiyagu's mind begins to clear as he takes on new respon...

Set in the years between 1995 and 2000, the fourth novel in the quintet follows the lives of the families scattered from the island of Nainativu across the world. Arasi redoubles her efforts to find the forcibly disappeared poet Rakini, and finds allies in the feminist groups advocating for human rights in Sri Lanka. In France, Suthan contributes to the formation of an international network of Tamils mobilizing for the struggle back home, even...

The village obeahman Manko foresees trouble when an English-man Garry Johnson comes to stay in the cacao estate of his friend Roger Franklin in Trinidad. Before long his prophecy is fulfilled when the visitor falls in love with the lovely Indian Sarojini. What had been a carefree atmosphere quickly evaporates, replaced with a tension-filled air of jealousies, rivalries and intrigues as three races interact in post-independence Trinidad.

When a rock, a threatening letter, and a burning Quran are thrown into a mosque, religious leaders and the police shrug it off as an isolated incident, but not everyone is convinced. Kashif Siddiqui joins a group of volunteers on security watch during Eid night, which becomes a test of friendship, family, and faith for the people in Kashif's orbit. For Kashif, it may mean the difference between life and death.

This novel describes the turbulent journey of an Afghan girl called Nila who suddenly has to escape her homeland with her family during the long Afghan war. As a child refugee, she experiences the trauma of displacement, during which her family struggles to survive and slowly falls apart.

Kerim Neto returns to his hometown, a city on Africa's Atlantic coast, to search for Mina, his former model, lover, and muse. Which Mina will Kerim find? Does she hide behind a veil? Or sing of the risen Christ? Will she bear the marks of torture? He has returned to a nation steeped in fear, where power lies in the hands of evil forces, where religions and superstition lull the minds, as the ancient gods look on.