Asylum - Channa Wickremesekera

Allah should not have revealed so much to the Prophet. It only makes pious people like us suffer.
So muses Khalid Khan a seventeen year old Afghan boy living in Melbourne. Khalid is like any other boy of his age in Australia he loves his Footy, his mums cooking and takes every opportunity to tease his sister Aisha. He believes in Allah although he sometimes wonders whether it is such a good idea to convert everybody in the world to Islam. The quiet suburban life of Khalids family is turned upside down one Friday morning when they have an unwelcome visitor. What follows is a hilarious – and poignant – intercultural encounter in multicultural Australia. Channa has a wonderful ear for the patois of teenagers. He helped me to empathise with the lives of people, whose religion is intertwined with their culture, and he did it with humor and insight which, given the political tenor of the times we live in, cannot be a bad thing. Michael Cooke, Doryanthes

LKR 450.00



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