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| | Amazon.ca: The Tiger Claw: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Shauna Singh Baldwins novel, The Tiger Claw, a nominee for the 2004 Giller Prize, is a fictionalized account of the life of Noor Inayat Khan, an Indian Muslim, who worked as a spy for the Allies Special Operations Executive during World War II, and who was eventually captured and imprisoned by the Germans. |
 | | In this sense, Singh Baldwins vision in the novel is an optimistic one, since it is located in the notion that the struggle for love and freedom is an essentially noble and heroic endeavour, which we abandon at the cost of losing our humanity. |
 | | Singh Baldwin includes in the novel a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Noor scratched into the wall of her cell the words, I resist, therefore I am. Noor was unable to escape the dizzying, headlong rush of history but, to her dying breath, she refused to capitulate to it. |
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