{"id":15933,"date":"2023-01-02T18:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T23:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=15933"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:48:11","slug":"amita-parikh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/amita-parikh\/","title":{"rendered":"Amita Parikh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Amita Parikh is an author, web developer and marketer from Scarborough (Toronto), Ontario. She earned a BSc Hons. from the University of Toronto. Parikh worked in the tech start-up industry in Europe and Canada for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Circus Train: A Novel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
PS8631.A74635 C57 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

At the World of Wonders, Europe\u2019s most magnificent travelling circus, every moment is full of magic, and nothing is as it seems\u2014especially for the people who put on the show<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, despite her father\u2019s overprotectiveness and the limitations of her wheelchair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lena\u2019s unconventional life takes an exciting turn when she rescues Alexandre, an orphan with his own secrets and a mysterious past. Over several years, as their friendship flourishes and Alexandre trains as the illusionist\u2019s apprentice, World War II escalates around them. When Theo and Alexandre are contracted to work and perform in a model town for Jews set up by the Nazis, Lena becomes separated from everything she knows. Forced to make her own way, she must confront her doubts and dare to believe in the impossible\u2014herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2022 The Globe 100 (Globe and Mail<\/em>, 2 Dec. 2022)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amita Parikh personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher HarperCollins Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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