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Title: The Unquiet Dead
Subtitle: Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak, Book 1
Author: Ausma Zehanat Khan
Narrator: Peter Ganim
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-08-17
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
In this important debut novel, Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a compelling and provocative mystery exploring the complexities of identity, loss, and redemption.
One man is dead. But thousands were his victims. Can a single murder avenge that of many?
Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto: the body of Christopher Drayton is found at the foot of the cliffs. Muslim Detective Esa Khattak, head of the Community Policing Unit, and his partner, Rachel Getty, are called in to investigate. As the secrets of Drayton's role in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide of Bosnian Muslims surface, the harrowing significance of his death makes it difficult to remain objective.
In a community haunted by the atrocities of war, anyone could be a suspect. And when the victim is a man with so many deaths to his name, could it be that justice has at long last been served?
Members Reviews:
set in Toronto and Bosnia&Herzegovina - An emotional multilayered story
For a debut novel, this was ambitious but Iâm so pleased the author took that leap of faith as sheâs produced a meaty read and one which is both police procedural, mystery, relevant and historically intriguing
The characters plot and setting are unique â lead character is a Canadian Muslim police investigator, Khattuck, whose recent case turns out to the death of a man who used to be a Bosnian Serb war criminal. So many people from that time must have fled in the same way and are now leading new lives. Quiet, and picturesque Scarborough seems as unlikely a place as any and the contrast between here and Bosnia emphasized a world torn apart.
You can tell this novel is written by someone who not only knows but cares about the subject â Ausma has a Ph.D. in international human rights law, specializing in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. I did feel that the novel often read more as an informed text that a novel at times â there is along list of references and document links at the end of the story, after the authorâs note on the background history so there is a sense that this is a novel to be read slowly and seriously. A mystery novel is a good way of bringing a subject like this to the literature world even if the history does override it at times.
Having said that, if this is the first novel, I want to read the rest as the premise and the overall subject matter is a unique one and it deserves a read to learn and gain horrifically realistic insights into the trauma and consequences of a country breaking up and how it affects it people, both then and years later.
This really is a book which makes you think and which lingers long after youâve read it.
What you likely never knew about Serbian âethnic cleansing
This book has haunted me. It was the first of several highly recommended books by Muslim authors. A dectective story, it is so much more. Every chapter begins with an unattributed quotation. When I thought to look a few chapters in, I found the annotations at the end of the book. To my horror most of them were from testimony on Bosnian War Crimes, interspersed with a few excerpts from the Koran and other quotations. As the story builds the full horror of the Serbian âethnic cleansingâ unfolds, as well as the culpability of the western countries in leaving the Bosnians undefended.
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Title: The Unquiet Dead
Subtitle: Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak, Book 1
Author: Ausma Zehanat Khan
Narrator: Peter Ganim
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-08-17
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
In this important debut novel, Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a compelling and provocative mystery exploring the complexities of identity, loss, and redemption.
One man is dead. But thousands were his victims. Can a single murder avenge that of many?
Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto: the body of Christopher Drayton is found at the foot of the cliffs. Muslim Detective Esa Khattak, head of the Community Policing Unit, and his partner, Rachel Getty, are called in to investigate. As the secrets of Drayton's role in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide of Bosnian Muslims surface, the harrowing significance of his death makes it difficult to remain objective.
In a community haunted by the atrocities of war, anyone could be a suspect. And when the victim is a man with so many deaths to his name, could it be that justice has at long last been served?
Members Reviews:
set in Toronto and Bosnia&Herzegovina - An emotional multilayered story
For a debut novel, this was ambitious but Iâm so pleased the author took that leap of faith as sheâs produced a meaty read and one which is both police procedural, mystery, relevant and historically intriguing
The characters plot and setting are unique â lead character is a Canadian Muslim police investigator, Khattuck, whose recent case turns out to the death of a man who used to be a Bosnian Serb war criminal. So many people from that time must have fled in the same way and are now leading new lives. Quiet, and picturesque Scarborough seems as unlikely a place as any and the contrast between here and Bosnia emphasized a world torn apart.
You can tell this novel is written by someone who not only knows but cares about the subject â Ausma has a Ph.D. in international human rights law, specializing in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. I did feel that the novel often read more as an informed text that a novel at times â there is along list of references and document links at the end of the story, after the authorâs note on the background history so there is a sense that this is a novel to be read slowly and seriously. A mystery novel is a good way of bringing a subject like this to the literature world even if the history does override it at times.
Having said that, if this is the first novel, I want to read the rest as the premise and the overall subject matter is a unique one and it deserves a read to learn and gain horrifically realistic insights into the trauma and consequences of a country breaking up and how it affects it people, both then and years later.
This really is a book which makes you think and which lingers long after youâve read it.
What you likely never knew about Serbian âethnic cleansing
This book has haunted me. It was the first of several highly recommended books by Muslim authors. A dectective story, it is so much more. Every chapter begins with an unattributed quotation. When I thought to look a few chapters in, I found the annotations at the end of the book. To my horror most of them were from testimony on Bosnian War Crimes, interspersed with a few excerpts from the Koran and other quotations. As the story builds the full horror of the Serbian âethnic cleansingâ unfolds, as well as the culpability of the western countries in leaving the Bosnians undefended.