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Governor Of The Northern Province

by (author) Randy Boyagoda

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
Oct 2007
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780670065646
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $32.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780143050926
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $20.00

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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.

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