The Illegal Keita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland a poor fictional island thatis erupting in political violence When his father a journalist is murdered Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of Fre
Keita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island thatis erupting in political violence When his father, a journalist, is murdered,Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of Freedom State an imagined countrymuch like our own A stateless refugee without documentation, Keita musthide from the authorities even as he races marathons to support himselfKeita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island thatis erupting in political violence When his father, a journalist, is murdered,Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of Freedom State an imagined countrymuch like our own A stateless refugee without documentation, Keita musthide from the authorities even as he races marathons to support himself andransom his sister who has been kidnapped This tension filled novel by thebest selling author of Someone Knows My Name is an astute exploration ofdislocation, starting all over again, and the desperate need for home andcommunity Compelling and
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Lawrence Hill
Hill is the author of ten books of fiction and non fiction In 2005, he won his first literary honour a National Magazine Award for the article Is Africa s Pain Black America s Burden published in The Walrus His first two novels were Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood, and his first non fiction work to attract national attention was the memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice On Being Black and White in Canada But it was his third novel, The Book of Negroes HarperCollins Canada, 2007 published in some countries as Someone Knows My Name and in French as Aminata that attracted widespread attention in Canada and other countries Lawrence Hill s non fiction book, Blood The Stuff of Life was published in September 2013 by House of Anansi Press Blood is a personal consideration of the physical, social, cultural and psychological aspects of blood, and how it defines, unites and divides us Hill drew from the book to deliver the 2013 Massey Lectures across Canada In 2013, Hill published the essay Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book An Anatomy of a Book Burning University of Alberta Press.His fourth novel, The Illegal, was published by HarperCollins Canada in 2015 and by WW Norton in the USA in 2016 Hill is currently writing a new novel and a children s book, and co writing a television miniseries adaptation of The Illegal for Conquering Lion Pictures Hill is a professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph, in Ontario.