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Monster child : a novel / Rahela Nayebzadah.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.N43 M66 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nayebzadah, Rahela, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afghans--Canada--Fiction.
- Afghans.
- Teenagers--Fiction.
- Teenagers.
- Canada.
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Rape--Fiction.
- Rape.
- Racism--Fiction.
- Racism.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages ; 22 x 14 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hamilton, ON : Buckrider Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- "In a powerful debut novel author Rahela Nayebzadah introduces three unforgettable characters, Beh, Shabnam and Alif. In a world swirling with secrets, racism and a touch of magic we watch through the eyes of these three children as Nayebzadah's family of Afghan immigrants try to find their way in an often uncaring society. But as a sexual assault on thirteen-year-old Beh unleashes the past and destroys the family the reader is left wondering who is the monster child? Is it Beh, who says she is called a disease? Is it Shabnam, who cries tears of blood? Is it Alif, who in the end declares "We are a family of monsters"? Or are the monsters all around us?"-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 198949630X
- 9781989496305
- OCLC:
- 1204137147
- Publisher Number:
- 99988448733
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