The Boat People
Publisher: Self www.sharmathewriter.com
Published: 2007
Place of publication: United Kingdom
Number of pages: 225
First sentence: Jaggi smiled. Jaggi always smiled.
Description: The year is 1964 and Jaggi is one of a group of 128 Indians who set sail from Bomaby for Britain. Shortly after arriving in London they part company, each to go their separate way. While most of them settled down in the prosperous South, an accident of fate takes Jaggi up North. Thirty-something years later "the boat people" meet again - on board the luxury yacht of one of them, who is now a multi-millionaire businessman. The get-together has been organised to toast their collective success in their new homeland but Jaggi finds he has little to celebrate about ... and there are new shocks waiting for him
Notes: The Boat People is a work of serious fiction. It throws new light on the North-South divide in the United Kingdom from a migrant's point of view.
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