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A conversation with Sadi Muktadir
Sadi Muktadir discusses his strikingly original, poignant, and humorous debut novel, Land of No Regrets. Nominated for the Toronto Book Award, Land of No Regrets is a compassionate exploration of faith, friendship, and the true value of freedom. It is a heart-wrenching story of four students who find hope and kinship amid the challenges of growing up at a harrowing madrasa, a religious Islamic school, in rural Ontario.
Freshly plucked from middle school in Scarborough, Nabil struggles to find his place at an Islamic academy. Between the intense religious studies and the new rules, he longs for his past life of baseball, video games, comic books, and girls. He falls into the company of two students and joins them in their misdeeds, ultimately forming a pact and hatching a plot to escape. Their decision sends them hurtling down a path that changes their lives forever.
A Different Drummer Books will be on site with books for sale and signing after the talk.
Presented in partnership with Harper Collins Canada
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Sadi Muktadir's writing has appeared in various magazines and literary journals. He was a winner of Toronto's What's Your Story competition, took third place in Humber Literary Review's Emerging Writer Story Contest, and was a finalist for the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize and Malahat Review's Open Season Awards.
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