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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Boyagoda, Randy
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Soharn Randy Boyagoda's parents immigrated to Canada from Sri Lanka in 1967 and settled in Oshawa, Ontario where Randy was born in 1976. He completed a B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1999, and both an M.A. (2001) and Ph.D (2005) at Boston University. His doctoral thesis is entitled Imagining Nations and Imaginary Americans: Race, Immigration and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner. Boyagoda joined the English Dept. of Ryerson University in 2006. He is a frequent contributor to local magazines such as The Walrus and newspapers including The Globe and Mail and National Post. |
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Fiction
Beggar's Feast
Toronto: Viking Canada, 2011.
9th floor PS8603 .O978 B43 2011
Publisher's Synopsis
Sam Kandy, born to low prospcets in a Ceylon village in 1899, dies a hundred years later as the wealthy headman of the same village - a self-made shipping magnate and the father of sixteen who's been married three times and widowed twice. ... A novel about family, pride, and ambition set on a gorgeous, troubled island caught between tradition and modernity ... |
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Fiction
Governor of the Northern Province
Toronto: Viking, 2006.
9th floor PS8603 .O978 G69 2006
Publisher's Synopsis
He laughed at what passed for tragedy in his new country. So begins Randy Boyagoda's scalding first novel, about an ex-African warlord named Bokarie who moves to small-town Canada--a place of comfort and tolerance, a place free from judgment and punishment for his gruesome doings in the northern province of his native African country, Atwenty. ... With searing irony and irrepressible intellect, Randy Boyagoda has created a disquieting tale of ambition, reinvention and betrayal.
Awards and Honours
2006 Giller Prize -- Longlist |
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