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The brink of freedom / Stella Leventoyannis Harvey.
When a well-meaning Canadian aid worker in Athens decides to take a young refugee boy into her care, she is unexpectedly jailed and accused of kidnapping. The boy is just one of thousands who desperately cross the Mediterranean in rickety boats in the hopes of using Greece as the conduit to a better life elsewhere. But even here, on the the brink of freedom, these refugees who have sacrificed so much could lose so much more.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781927426760 (paperback)
- ISBN: 1927426766 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 323 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : Signature Editions, 2015.
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| Subject: | Refugees > Fiction. Racism > Fiction. Compassion > Fiction. Life change events > Fiction. Hope > Fiction. Greece > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Literary fiction. Canadian fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Lillooet Area Library Association.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Lillooet Branch | AF LEV (Text) | 35180000334010 | New Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Univ of Toronto Pr
Every day desperate people at the mercy of smugglers flee conflict zones, crossing the Mediterranean in rickety boats in the hopes of using Greece as the conduit to a better life elsewhere. Thousands perish in the attempt. Those who survive face yet more challenges, for the Greeks themselves, in an economic crisis worse than any in living memory, have neither the resources nor the will to play host to the constant influx of refugees. In The Brink of Freedom we see how worlds collide when a young boy goes missing from a refugee camp in Athens. He is found with a Canadian woman, but the police also apprehend a Gypsy from Ukraine on suspicion of human trafficking. When everyone is desperate, none of the rules of civilized society apply.
