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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hill, Lawrence, 1957-     Subjects     Refugees -- Fiction.     Runners (Sports) -- Fiction.     Noncitizens -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hill, Lawrence, 1957-       by title:      The illegal : a nove...         MARC Display

The illegal : a novel / Lawrence Hill. by Hill, Lawrence, 1957- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. Subjects Refugees -- Fiction.   Runners (Sports) -- Fiction.   Noncitizens -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780393070590 (hardcover) : 039307059X (hardcover) Description:  392 pages : map ; 25 cm Edition:  First American edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  Keita Ali is on the run. He is desperate to flee Zantoroland, a mountainous black island that produces the fastest marathoners in the world. Keita signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, who provides Keita with a chance to run the Boston marathon in return for a huge cut of the winning purse. But when Keita fails to place among the top finishers, rather than being sent back to his own country, he goes into hiding in Freedom State a wealthy nation that has elected a government bent on deporting the refugees living within its borders in the community of AfricTown. Keita can be safe only if he keeps moving and eludes Hamm and the officials who would deport him to his own country, where he will face almost certain death. This is the new underground. A place where tens of thousands of people deemed to be illegal live below the radar of the police and government officials. As Keita surfaces from time to time to earn cash prizes by running local road races, he has to assess whether the people he meets are friends or enemies: John Falconer, a gifted student intent on making a documentary about AfricTown; Ivernia Beech, an elderly woman who is at risk of being forced into an assisted living facility; Rocco Stanton, a recreational marathoner who is the Immigration Minister; Lula DiStefano, self-declared Queen of AfricTown and Madame of the community s infamous brothel; and Viola Hill, one of the only black reporters in the country, who is investigating the possibility of corruption linking the highest officials in Freedom State and Zantoroland. Keita s very existence in Freedom State is illegal. As he trains in secret, eluding capture, the stakes keep getting higher. Soon, he is running not only for his life, but his sister s life, too. Fast-moving and compelling, The Illegal is a literary thriller that addresses the fate of undocumented refugees who struggle to survive in nations that do not want them.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aiea Public Library Adult Fiction Hill Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Fiction Hill Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Fiction Hill Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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