Asylum

By Channa Wickremesekera

"Allah shouldn’t 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 mum’s 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 Khalid’s 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Channa Wickremesekera
• Release date: Jun 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310795787

Channa Wickremesekera

I was born in Sri Lanka and have been living in Australia since 1990. I have written five novels: 'Walls', 'Distant Warriors', 'In the Same Boat' and 'Asylum' and 'Tracks'. My fiction often deals with the experience of migrants. I am also a military historian, having obtained my PhD. in History from Monash University, Melbourne in 1998. I have written four monographs on South Asian military history, 'Best Black Troops in the World', 'Kandy at War', 'The Tamil Separatist War in Sri Lanka' and 'ATough Appreniceship: Sri Lanka's Military Aganst the Tamil Militants 1979 - 1987.'

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