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Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

Written by: Anita Rau Badami
Narrated by: Anita Rau Badami
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Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the political, become heartrendingly connected. Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature
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Critic Reviews

"Pulsates with humanity. . . . If you do manage to put this novel down, it’s probably only to compose yourself to keep on reading."
–Edmonton Journal

"Like Canada, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? may be read on many levels, each of which illuminates a little more of who we are. . . . Rich in echoes and irony and questions, this is one book in the growing catalogue of books we need to read to understand ourselves."
–The Globe and Mail

"As Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? shows, the enduring state of ‘in-between’ that is part of both immigrant life in Canada and Sikh life in post-partition India is equally rich in the complex joy of struggle and the possibility for tension, misunderstanding, and, sometimes, violence."
–Calgary Herald

"Anita Rau Badami has scored again with Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?"
–Edmonton Journal

"Nightbird brilliantly tells the timeless story of immigrants who face hardship as they try to build new lives, straddling two worlds and never really fitting into either."
–The Vancouver Sun

Praise for The Hero’s Walk:
"A powerful, heady mix of brilliant characters, poignant reality, and a rare depth of emotional integrity and commitment. . . . This is a book you will want to explore and savour."
–The Telegram (St. John’ s)

"A big-hearted and compulsively readable novel. . . . [Badami is] a gifted observer of the human comedy."
–Toronto Star
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I came with no expectations and was blown away by the brilliance in the writing as well as in the narration by the author. This audiobook truly deserves your attention if you are interested in the sufferings of the Sikh community and the 1984 Sikh Massacre. Although these are the main backdrop, the author has seemingly connected them with the Partition and Indira Gandhi’s emergency actions, the raid on the Golden Temple, Indira Gandhi’s assassination leading to the violent Sikh Massacre, and then the Air India bomb blast.

The story and performance both are brilliant.

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