{"product_id":"no-more-boats-paperback","title":"No More Boats - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFelicity Castagna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"timely and powerful\" novel that provides \"a haunting and compassionate consideration of the question of who can and cannot come into a country\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in Sydney's working-class western suburbs, \u003cem\u003eNo More Boats\u003c\/em\u003e tells of a family whose unraveling lives collide with a refugee crisis known as the Tampa Affair, when over four hundred refugees were left stranded fifteen miles off the Australian coast.\u003cbr\u003eThe story revolves around Antonio, an Italian immigrant, his wife, Rose, with a rich back story of her own, and their two children, Nico and Clare--both, in their owns ways, drifting. After a job-related accident forces him into early retirement and the familiar scaffolding of work, family, the immigrant's dream of betterment, is removed from his life, Antonio's mind begins to fragment. Manipulated by the media and made vulnerable by his feeling of irrelevance, Antonio commits an act that makes him a lightning rod for the factions that are bitterly at odds over the Tampa Affair . . .\u003cbr\u003eA finalist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2018, \u003cem\u003eNo More Boats\u003c\/em\u003e is not only a riveting story of a modern family; it also directly addresses issues that many nations are grappling with--immigration, xenophobia, protectionism, racism, media manipulation, and the precariousness of the working poor--and is \"full of timely lessons for those pondering the rise of me-first nationalism throughout the world\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFelicity Castagna\u003c\/b\u003e won the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for her previous novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Incredible Here and Now\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia and NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and adapted for the stage by the National Theatre of Parramatta. Her collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eSmall Indiscretions\u003c\/i\u003e, was named an \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year. Castagna's work has appeared on radio and television, and she runs the storytelling series Studio Stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247655010553,"sku":"9781609455095","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MzZuSm1LaHFzQWdpRGJ5SHQrMkpUZz09.webp?v=1768626937","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/no-more-boats-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}