The Rain of Fire

Pramudith D. Rupasinghe
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The story takes place at the northern tip of British Burma.... today Mayanmar, in a Rohingya family that was forced to leave all what they had for generations, and imposed a gettorised life. An enduring story of a refugee boy who survived a wreckage of a rattling boat in Andaman sea, and finally found himself in Chicago Illinois - a land a great promise was held, and becomes a leading entrepreneur in the county. Being a minority is not a reason to be treated differently, believing in what the majority does not believe is not a reason to be persecuted. But being born in a minority family of most persecuted ethnicity on the earth, he realised that the world does not adhere to what the theories in the books say. Today, he is cataracted about the tomorrow of his children on the land that sheltered him years ago. 'I am one of them, we thrived in diversity and we built a nation which belongs to every one of us'. He sighs. 'I decided to take the ferry from Seattle, to Vancouver, where there is a ray of hope and respect to humanity'. The book takes its reader on a journey that many people hesitate to go and compels to look at immigrants through a completely unconventional view point.
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