Passage to Lahore is a no-holds-barred telling of the Pakistani-Canadian-British-Indian-Québécois experience, challenging conventional history with frequent outbreaks of scathing satire. Fractious, erudite, and raunchy, Samuel's narrative takes us from Montreal to Lahore to Algeria to Hong Kong to China to Surrey, in search of ways to comically damage the suicidal sterility of The Correct and of the tribal debates raging today.

Julian Samuel, author of Passage to Lahore, is a filmmaker, writer, and artist who was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1952, and has lived in the UK, Toronto, and Peterborough. His films include Black Skin; White Masks, Dictators, Resisting the Pharaohs, Red Star over the Western Press, and he is the co-author of The Raft of the Medusa: five voices on colonies, nations, and histories and author of Lone Ranger in Pakistan, a book of poetry. His articles and essays have appeared in Arab World Review, Canadian Literature, and FUSE, among others. He makes his home in Montreal, where he completed an MFA and has taught at Concordia University.

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