Governor Of The Northern Province
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2007
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780670065646
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $32.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143050926
- Publish Date
- Oct 2007
- List Price
- $20.00
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Description
Sam Bokarie is an ex–African warlord who moves to small-town Canada to capitalize on its zealous hospitality. Based in part on a notoriously vicious figure, this debut novel responds to this warlord’s mysterious disappearance by imagining what would happen if he turned up in Canada and aligned himself with an ambitious but clumsy politician. With searing wit, Boyagoda has created a powerful tale of political ambition and unlikely alliances that reviewers hailed as genius.
About the author
Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and professor of English at the University of Toronto. His novels, which include Original Prin and Dante’s Indiana, have been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize. He lives in Toronto with his wife and four daughters. Little Sanctuary is his first novel for young readers.
