Summary
Brown Boy is an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class, told through Omer Aziz’s incisive and luminous prose.
In the early 2000s, Toronto, Omer Aziz’s working-class neighbourhood is miles away from the wealthy white downtown. A first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy, Omer struggles to find his place in a world of violence and uncertainty, torn between cultures old and new. Dreading the aimless, angry future that he sees oth…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471190339 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1471190331 |
| Author: | Omer Aziz |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 19 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 24mm |
You Can Find This Book In
About The Author
Omer Aziz
Omer Aziz is a lawyer, writer, and former foreign policy advisor in the administration of the Canadian Prime Minister. He was born to working-class parents of Pakistani origin in Toronto, Canada, and with the help of scholarships, became the first in his family to go to college in the West, later studying in Paris, at Cambridge University, and Yale Law School.
Aziz has clerked for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria and served as a foreign policy advisor in the government of Justin Trudeau. He has held residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and many other publications. He was most recently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.
Brown Boy is his first book.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.