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Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an interpreter for asylum seekers in the outskirts of the city. Translating the stories of men and women who come from her country of birth, into the language of her country of citizenship, Sinha's narrator finds herself caught up in a tangle of lies and truths. Armed with an acerbic sense of humour she exposes prejudices on all sides.

Down with the Poor!

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Paperback / softback by Shumona Sinha , Teresa Lavender Fagan

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Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her... Read more

    Publisher: Les Fugitives
    Publication Date: 04/08/2022
    ISBN13: 9781838490461, 978-1838490461
    ISBN10: 1838490469

    Number of Pages: 150

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an interpreter for asylum seekers in the outskirts of the city. Translating the stories of men and women who come from her country of birth, into the language of her country of citizenship, Sinha's narrator finds herself caught up in a tangle of lies and truths. Armed with an acerbic sense of humour she exposes prejudices on all sides.

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