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Silence Of The Chagos
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Author : Shenaz Patel
language : en
Publisher: Restless Books
Release Date : 2019-11-05
Silence Of The Chagos written by Shenaz Patel and has been published by Restless Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Fiction categories.
Based on a true, still-unfolding story, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural identity, the concept of home, and above all the neverending desire for justice. Shenaz Patel draws on the lives of exiled Chagossians in this tragic example of 20th century political oppression. Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze “back there”: to Diego Garcia, one of the small islands forming the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean. With no explanation, no forewarning, and only an hour to pack their belongings, the Chagossians are deported to Mauritius. Officials tell her that the island is “closed”— there is no going back for any of them. Charlesia longs for life on Diego Garcia, where the days were spent working on a coconut plantation; the nights dancing to sega music. As she struggles to come to terms with her new reality, Charlesia crosses paths with Désiré, a young man born on the one-way journey to Mauritius. Désiré has never set foot on Diego Garcia, but as Charlesia unfolds the dramatic story of his people, he learns of the home he never knew and the disrupted future of his people. With the sovereignty of Chagos currently being debated on an international judiciary level, Silence of the Chagos is an important and timely examination of the rights of individuals in the face of governmental corruption. Praise for Silence of the Chagos: “Some twenty years ago, I was struck by a photo showing barefoot women on the road facing the armed police. They were Chagossian women protesting in Mauritius with astonishing determination.” This photo, which she's never forgotten, is the inspiration for the Mauritian novelist and journalist Shenaz Patel's third book. Mingling various voice, Patel describes, in a bitter, clear-cut style, the tragedy of the inhabitants of the Chagos, those coral islands of the Indian Ocean that were turned into an American military base and whose inhabitants had been banished to Mauritius between 1967 and 1972. With a prose that seeps and stings, and a sharp sensibility, Shenaz Patel breathes life into the painful nostalgia, the lingering memories, and the eternal incomprehension of these expelled from a string of lost islands.” —Le Monde “This novel has two voices, those of Charlesia and Désiré, both of whom are foreigners, natives of the Chagos archipelago, living in exile in Mauritius, an island that is a paradise for some but a hell for them. The Chagos are an archipelago that would have been hidden in the depths of the Indian Ocean, had Americans not built a military base to bombard other countries. Charlesia and Désiré live and breathe; the Mauritian writer Shenaz Patel introduces us to them and gives them voice again.” —Libération “From scenes of daily life to the horrors of forced exile, through the grief of deculturation and the experience of an impossible identity, Patel interrogates the relationship between political expediency and its all-too-human consequences, between the abstract needs of international security and the concrete needs of the individual, and above all between the rich and the poor.” —L'Express
Silence Of The Chagos
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Author : Shenaz Patel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Silence Of The Chagos written by Shenaz Patel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with British Indian Ocean Territory categories.
Le Silence Des Chagos
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Author : Shenaz Patel
language : fr
Publisher: Editions de l'Olivier
Release Date : 2005
Le Silence Des Chagos written by Shenaz Patel and has been published by Editions de l'Olivier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with British Indian Ocean Territory categories.
A Port-Louis, sur l'île Maurice, Charlesia Garcia scrute l'horizon. Elle sait pourtant qu'aucun bateau ne la ramenera dans l'archipel des Chagos où il faisait si bon vivre, et dont elle, son mari et beaucoup d'autres ont été explusés dans les années 60. De son côté, Georges Désiré, né en 1973 sur le dernier bateau parti des Chagos, découvre le drame de ses parents et de son entourage.
The Silence Of Chagos
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Author : Elsa Engstrom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Silence Of Chagos written by Elsa Engstrom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Colonies categories.
Die Stille Von Chagos Roman
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Author : Shenaz Patel
language : de
Publisher: CulturBooks
Release Date : 2017-10-23
Die Stille Von Chagos Roman written by Shenaz Patel and has been published by CulturBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-23 with Fiction categories.
Shenaz Patels Roman zeichnet das Schicksal der Chagossianer nach, einer Volksgruppe, die auf den Inseln des Chagos-Archipels im Indischen Ozean lebte, bis sie ab Mitte der 1960er Jahre von dort vertrieben wurde. Die Chagos-Inseln gehören noch zum britischen Territorium und wurden für 50 Jahre an die USA verpachtet, die dort eine Militärbasis errichtet haben. Von hier wurden und werden Luftangriffe auf den Irak und Afghanistan geflogen. Die Inselbewohner hat man zwangsumgesiedelt – die meisten landeten in Slums in der mauritischen Hauptstadt Port Louis. Die Vertriebenen kämpfen bis heute vor Gericht vergeblich um ihre Rückkehr. Der Roman zeigt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven die Schicksale mehrerer Chagossianer. Da ist Charlesia, die mit ihrer Familie nach Mauritius fährt, da ihr Mann im Krankenhaus behandelt werden muß, und plötzlich und ohne jede Information nicht mehr auf ihre geliebte Insel Diego Garcia zurückkehren kann. Da ist Tony, ein Hafenarbeiter auf Mauritius, der Charlesia immer wieder am Kai stehen sieht, sehnsüchtig aufs Meer starrend. Da ist Désiré, der nach der Verschleppung seiner Mutter auf der Schiffsreise nach Mauritius geboren wird und sich zwischen den Welten fühlt. Und da ist der Schiffskapitän, der Gewissensbisse hat, weil er die Inselbewohner gegen deren Willen wegbrachte, nachdem er jahrelang mit Lebensmittellieferungen zu der isolierten und weitgehend unberührten Insel gekommen war. Die Frage, was es bedeutet, heimatlos und entwurzelt zu sein, ist heute aktueller denn je. Der Roman spürt sensibel den verschiedenen Varianten des Unrechts nach, das den Chagossianern vor rund 50 Jahren widerfahren ist. Frankreich war der Ehrengast der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017
The Mauritian Novel
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Author : Julia Waters
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-08
The Mauritian Novel written by Julia Waters and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book analyses how the idea – or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary ‘politics of belonging’ in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.
Diego Garcia
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Author : Natasha Soobramanien
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-06-21
Diego Garcia written by Natasha Soobramanien and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-21 with Fiction categories.
Sad and funny and bitter and true, a novel about grief, discovering your own story, and trying to listen for those stories that are not yours to tell. August 2014. Two friends, writers Damaris Caleemootoo and Oliver Pablo Herzberg, arrive in Edinburgh from London, the city that killed Daniel—his brother, her frenemy and loved by them both. Every day is different but the same. Trying to get to the library, they get distracted by bickering—will it rain or not and what should they do about their tanking bitcoin?—in the end failing to write or resist the sadness which follows them as they drift around the city. On such a day they meet Diego, a poet. They learn that Diego’s mother was from the Chagos Archipelago, that she and her community were forced to leave their ancestral islands by soldiers in 1973 to make way for a military base. They become obsessed with this notorious episode in British history and the continuing resistance of the Chagossian people, and feel urged to write in solidarity. But how to share a story that is not theirs to tell? Sad, funny and angry, this collaborative fiction builds on the true fact of another: a collaborative fiction created by the British and US governments to dispossess a people of their homeland.
Glorious Boy
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Author : Aimee Liu
language : en
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Release Date : 2020-05-12
Glorious Boy written by Aimee Liu and has been published by Red Hen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with Fiction categories.
“An absolutely gorgeous historical novel . . . set against the backdrop of a tribe in the Andamans struggling with British rule . . . Just magnificent.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You One of Booklist’s Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2020 Glorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail. Set in India’s remote Andaman Islands before and during WWII, the story revolves around a mysteriously mute four-year-old who vanishes on the eve of the Japanese occupation. Little Ty’s parents, Shep and Claire, will go to any lengths to rescue him, but neither is prepared for the brutal and soul-changing odyssey that awaits them. “A riveting amalgam of history, family epic, anticolonial/antiwar treatise, cultural crossroads, and more . . . a fascinating, irresistible marvel.” —Library Journal (starred review) “The most memorable and original novel I’ve read in ages . . . evokes every side in a multi-cultural conversation with sympathy and rare understanding.” —Pico Iyer, author of Autumn Light Shortlisted for the Staunch Book Prize New York Post’s Best Books of the Week Good Housekeeping’s 20 Best Books of 2020 Parade’s 30 Best Beach Reads of 2020
Look Hamlet
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Author : Barbro Lindgren
language : en
Publisher: Restless Books
Release Date : 2019-10-29
Look Hamlet written by Barbro Lindgren and has been published by Restless Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with Humor categories.
A hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna Höglund. Look Hamlet. Hamlet not happy. Hamlet’s mommy dumb. Hamlet’s daddy dead. So begins this wonderfully strange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy boiled down to its smallest possible size: 100 words, give or take, and fifteen etchings that look like the lovechild of Beatrix Potter and Edward Gorey. In our despondent antihero, a lop-eared bunny Hamlet with handbag in tow, is somehow embodied all the tremendous pathos of Shakespeare’s Danish Prince. And in legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren’s pithy prose resides the poetry of the original, reworked for the era of memes and short attention spans. Bold and brilliant, irreverent and humane, Look Hamlet is the perfect irreverent gift for Shakespeare readers of all ages. As the Bard himself wrote: “brevity is the soul of wit.”
The Last Colony
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Author : Philippe Sands
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2023-09-26
The Last Colony written by Philippe Sands and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with History categories.
The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory In 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby Elyse—twenty years old, newly married and four months pregnant—was, rounded up, along with the entire population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings and leave her beloved homeland by ship or slowly starve; the British had cut off all food supplies. Some two thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the 18th century by the French and British, were deported overnight from their island paradise as the result of a secret decision by the British government to provide the United States with land to construct a military base in the Indian Ocean. For four decades the government of Mauritius fought for the return of Chagos. Three decades into the battle, Philippe Sands became the lead lawyer in the case, designing its legal strategy and assembling a team of lawyers from Mauritius, Belgium, India, Ukraine, and the U.S. When the case finally reached the World Court in the Hague, Sands chose as the star witness the diminutive Liseby Elyse, now sixty-five years old, and instructed her to appear before the court, speaking in Kreol, to tell the fourteen international judges her story of forced exile. The fate of Chagos rested on her testimony. The judges faced a landmark decision: Would they rule that Britain illegally detached Chagos from Mauritius? Would Liseby Elyse sway the judges and open the door, allowing her and her fellow Chagossians to return home—or would they remain exiled forever? Philippe Sands writes of his own journey into international law and that of the World Court in the Hague, and of the extraordinary decades-long quest of Liseby Elyse, and the people of Chagos, in their fight for justice and a free and fair return to the idyllic land of their birth.