Concerned with the themes of dislocation, revolution, and the shifting politics of the Third World, this collection of fourteen stories explores the personal consequences of political upheaval, the restraints of tradition and society, and the alienation of the immigrant

Digging up the Mountains: Selected Stories

Literature & Fiction

BISSOONDATH, Neil

United States

Penguin??Books

On the eve of uncertain tomorrows

In this expertly crafted book of short stories, his first since Digging up the Mountains, Neil Bissoondath evokes an exhilarating range of emotions. He is a master of comic detail, a sly conjurer of the unexpected, and a compassionate chronicler of people's hopes, fears, dreams, and needs. 
 His gallery of characters, vividly brought to life by the precise and supple prose for which Bissoondath is renowned, is made up of strangers in strange lands, desperately hoping to find their tomorrows. Some do. The tragedies and complexities -- both political and personal -- of these characters are laid bare. Yet this is, above all, Neil Bissoondath's most hopeful book to date. With his assured and humane voice, he celebrates the small acts of triumph achieved by people emotionally endangered, people searching for a calm centre.

On The Eve Of Uncertain Tomorrows

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Canada

The Innocence of Age

Penguin

Since he immigrated to Canada two decades ago, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation -- a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, discourages the full loyalty of Canada's citizens. Through the 1971 Multiculturalism Act, Canada has sought to order its population into a cultural mosaic of diversity and tolerance. Seeking to preserve the heritage of Canada's many peoples, the policy nevertheless creates unease on many levels, transforming people into political tools and turning historical distinctions into stereotyped commodities. It encourages exoticism, highlighting the differences that divide Canadians rather than the similarities that unite them. Selling Illusions is Neil Bissoondath's personal exploration of a politically motivated public policy with profound private ramifications -- a policy flawed from its inception but implemented with all the political zeal of a true believer.

Selling illusions: The cult of multiculturalism in Canada

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Since he immigrated to Canada almost three decades ago, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, discourages the full loyalty of Canada's citizens. 
Through the 1971 Multiculturalism Act, Canada has sought to order its population into a cultural mosaic of diversity and tolerance. Seeking to preserve the heritage of Canada's many peoples, the policy nevertheless creates unease on many levels, transforming people into political tools and turning historical distinctions into stereotyped commodities. It encourages exoticism, highlighting the differences that divide Canadians rather than the similarities that unite them. Selling Illusions is Neil Bissoondath's personal exploration of a politically motivated public policy with profound private ramifications - a policy flawed from its inception but nonetheless implemented with unmatched zeal.

Selling Illusions Revised Edition: The Cult Of Multi Culturalism In Canada

History

Americas

Leaving Toronto for Casaquemada, the Caribbean island of his birth, Dr. Raj Rassingh finds the formerly affluent community now plagued by random violence and widespread paranoia

A Casual Brutality

Clarkson/Potter

A collection of short stories explores a range of moral and social themes--alienation and estrangement, political and domestic morality, racial prejudice--as individuals and cultures clash

On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows

Digging up the Mountains

Viking Adult

Set in both the Caribbean and Canada, The Worlds Within Her joins politics and love as Yasmin recollects her life in the 40s and 50s. Alternating between Yasmin and her mother Shakti, their worlds and dreams collide to release deeply buried secrets.

The Worlds Within Her

Knopf Canada

This beautiful novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Casual Brutality and The Innocence of Age, joins politics and love in a powerful story set in both the Caribbean and Canada. Neil Bissoondath draws us with a startling grace of language into the lives of a mother and daughter whose worlds and dreams collide to release deeply buried secrets.

World Literature

Vintage Canada

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Books by BISSOONDATH, Neil

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Digging up the Mountains: Selected Stories

On The Eve Of Uncertain Tomorrows

The Innocence of Age

Selling illusions: The cult of multiculturalism in Canada

Selling Illusions Revised Edition: The Cult Of Multi Culturalism In Canada

A Casual Brutality

On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows

Digging up the Mountains

The Worlds Within Her

The Worlds Within Her