About the Author
I didn't realize that I was a writer until I moved away from home and started writing letters to my mother. She loved my letters. She saved them and reread them. Almost a decade after I wrote a funny letter to my Mum, she handed it to me and asked me to read it aloud, which I did. We shared a good laugh over it.
My mother was once an English teacher. Pam was very strict. Strict about pronunciation, grammar, the use of words and their overuse. She was also a voracious reader, she was always reading books. She could read more than one book a week. She would talk to me about the books, the storylines, and the authors, with great enthusiasm. My mother always wanted me to read more books. The only way I could get her to stop this was by asking her why she didn't write a book herself. She'd lived a long and interesting life and how hard could it be. Well, it is hard.
I am Farid Rifaat. I was born in Egypt and immigrated to Canada with my family as a child. Some of the events in this book happened to me, and I felt compelled to write about them. I love films and photography, which inspire my writing style. I mostly write the way I speak. I love wordy films with delicious dialog and well-crafted sentences that contain words I am unfamiliar with and have to look them up in the dictionary to get their meaning. I love films about relationships, difficulties of communication, and arguments ensued from misunderstandings. I feel that I have become a bit of an expert on the subject of communication, in all its forms. May I say this and get away with it? The Boy from Shangri-La is my first book. I live in downtown Toronto but I'm only truly alive when I travel. I think I'll read books when I travel and when I'm older. This one's for you Mum, hope you like it. RIP
My mother was once an English teacher. Pam was very strict. Strict about pronunciation, grammar, the use of words and their overuse. She was also a voracious reader, she was always reading books. She could read more than one book a week. She would talk to me about the books, the storylines, and the authors, with great enthusiasm. My mother always wanted me to read more books. The only way I could get her to stop this was by asking her why she didn't write a book herself. She'd lived a long and interesting life and how hard could it be. Well, it is hard.
I am Farid Rifaat. I was born in Egypt and immigrated to Canada with my family as a child. Some of the events in this book happened to me, and I felt compelled to write about them. I love films and photography, which inspire my writing style. I mostly write the way I speak. I love wordy films with delicious dialog and well-crafted sentences that contain words I am unfamiliar with and have to look them up in the dictionary to get their meaning. I love films about relationships, difficulties of communication, and arguments ensued from misunderstandings. I feel that I have become a bit of an expert on the subject of communication, in all its forms. May I say this and get away with it? The Boy from Shangri-La is my first book. I live in downtown Toronto but I'm only truly alive when I travel. I think I'll read books when I travel and when I'm older. This one's for you Mum, hope you like it. RIP
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