{"product_id":"dying-in-toronto-9781912545568","title":"Dying in Toronto","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dasa Drndic | Celia Hawkesworth\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Istros Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Istros Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll of Drndic's award-winning work fluctuates between fact and fiction, and \u003cem\u003eDying in Toronto\u003c\/em\u003e gives an account of the author's first year in Canada as a refugee, in 1995. While the book is written in the form of essays, it is clearly shaped to tell of that year as a story, and the result is unique in both form and content, combining new techniques of creative personal confession and acute social perception, which offer a rare depth of insight and breadth of perspective on the real, difficult life of an immigrant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining the instinct of the good citizen, our narrator considers the confusion of the multinational myth of the 'New World' through her highly refined, critical intellect. Along the way she creates nothing less than the portrait of a new literary figure - the contemporary intellectual refugee - a point of view at once of its time and acutely contemporary. \u003cem\u003eDying in Toronto \u003c\/em\u003eis lucid and tenacious, witty and sad, part of the author's inability to reconcile with the status quo, and her fight for justice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Istros Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890010144919,"sku":"9781912545568","price":1215.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781912545568.webp?v=1781178515","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dying-in-toronto-9781912545568","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}