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Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
- Anita Rau Badam

ISBN - 10:0676976050· Published By: Knopf Canada - Pages 432

The story of three women who are linked in love and tragedy. The story moves from Pakistan to India to Vancouver and offers an insight of life for new immigrants. We experience their hardships of trying to build a new life while the political upheavals in their homeland impacts them. Daily sights and sounds of Vancouver and India draw the reader into their world.

From the Publisher
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes.

Setting: Pakistan to Vancouver 1947 to 1986
Issues: Immigrants to Canada
       Current issues in Indo Canadian community
        India's Sikh community and their beliefs
         Immigration challenges
        Memory, myth and politics and their effect on our lives