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Return : why we go back to where we come from / Kamal Al-Solaylee.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443456159 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 311 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | 303.482 AlS | 31681010248482 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Al-Solaylee interviews dozens of people who have chosen to or long to return to their homelands, from the Basques to the Irish to the Taiwanese. Return is a chronicle of love and loss, of global reach and personal desires. It sets the narrative of goinghome against geopolitical forces that are likely to shape the rest of this century and beyond"-- - HARPERCOLL
A Globe and Mail, Hill Times and CBC Best Book of the Year
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to return to your roots?
Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee, author of the bestselling and award-winning Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes and Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), yearns to return to his homeland of Yemen, now wracked by war, starvation and daily violence, to reconnect with his family. Yemen, as well as Egypt, another childhood home, call to him, even though he ran away from them in his youth and found peace and prosperity in Canada.
In Return, Al-Solaylee interviews dozens of people who have chosen to or long to return to their homelands, from Basques to Irish to Taiwanese. He does make a return of sorts himself, to the Middle East, visiting Israel and the West Bank, as well as Egypt. A chronicle of love and loss, of global reach and personal desires, Return is a book for anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to return to their roots.
