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Foreword by Michael IgnatieffPreface by Rudyard Griffiths, The Dominion InstituteWithout departure, there is no arrival -- this is the experience of some of Canada's best-known émigré authors and public figures, shared in Passages: Welcome Home to Canada.In first-hand accounts, these celebrated writers explore the excitement and anguish of uprooting to a new country. Childhood memories, familiar streets, the aromas of local cooking, long-cherished plans -- to leave all this behind can only be traumatic. And yet, to find a haven from oppression and danger, a place to carve out a new identity and put down new roots -- this is a thrill only an emigrant can know. In Passages we see this terrible pain and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for growth in delicate balance.Alberto Manguel discovers the quiet pleasure of citizenship after years of cosmopolitan wandering. Ken Wiwa looks for a fresh start, far from the shadow of his martyred father in Africa. Nino Ricci, having grown up in an old-world Italian community transplanted to rural Ontario, describes his passage into the larger world, where other families don′t bake their own bread or slaughter their own pigs. Shyam Selvadurai tells of

Who reads Passages : Welcome Home to Canada?

Author

Ignatieff, Michael; Griffiths, Rudyard

Publisher

Doubleday Canada, Limited

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385674829

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir