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Anansi Turns 55
When you purchase $55 worth of books from our anniversary collection you will receive a limited edition Anansi enamel pin.
To celebrate our 55th anniversary we're looking back at some of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, culture-defining books that made Anansi what it is today. In our 55th anniversary collection you'll find 55 books that reflect our original mission: challenge the status quo. Among these books are Canadian fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that has redefined genres, started national conversations, and stolen hearts in Canada and around the world.
Looking to the future, we're guided by the same principles that inspired Dennis Lee and David Godfrey to found Anansi. Our new publisher, Leigh Nash, put it best in a recent edition of Publishers Weekly: "We want to be powered by that sense of relentless optimism that buoyed early Anansi lists." This holiday season, that glittering feeling of possibility guides our celebrations as we step back to admire 55 years of very good books and look forward to the new year ahead.
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Death Goes Better With Coca-Cola
Originally published in 1967, Death Goes Better with Coca-Cola features stories about hunting — in Florida, in Africa, and in northern Ontario.
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No Pain Like This Body
The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community.
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The Honeyman Festival
A night in the life of a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between her family and the need for a life in which impulse can once again find play.
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Ana Historic
A CanLit classic, here is the A List edition of Daphne Marlatt’s utterly original novel about rescuing a forgotten woman from obscurity.
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Simply put, for its compelling documentary value as an artifact of a dangerous time\" ―\u003cstrong \u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“[A] major bid to encourage Americans to evade military conscription … [Contains] detailed advice about how to qualify as a Canadian immigrant, and information about Canadian jobs and school opportunities, housing, politics, culture, and climate.” —\u003cstrong\u003eEdward Cowan, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, February 11, 1968\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“One of the most important and iconic movement publications of the Vietnam War era.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanadian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“[Contains] useful information that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.” —\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Lauter and Florence Howe, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, June 20, 1968\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada, with new modern relevance.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2017-08-26","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada, with new modern relevance.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada
A handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada, with new modern relevance.
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Hard Core Logo
A graphic novel about a legendary Canadian punk band, based on the feature film by Bruce McDonald and the novel by Michael Turner.
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{"id":6817702608955,"title":"The Circle Game","handle":"the-circle-game","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a part of the launch of the new A List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Literary Award–winning \u003cem\u003eThe Circle Game\u003c\/em\u003e, with an introduction by Suzanne Buffam.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works, such as \u003cem\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBodily Harm\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAlias Grace\u003c\/em\u003e. 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The Circle Game
A-List series edition of Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Award–winning The Circle Game, with an introduction by Suzanne Buffam.
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When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks
The first collection of short fiction from bestselling author Austin Clarke is a provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada.
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Technology and Justice
Six magnificent and stimulating essays examining the role of technology in shaping how we live, by one of Canada's most influential philosophers.
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In her search for a lover, Shirley sheds her drab existence together with torturous memories of guilt and loss as a Jewish immigrant in Toronto.
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The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories
The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring Canadian classic.
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She lives in Montreal.","ContributorBio_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLISA MOORE\u003c\/strong\u003e is the acclaimed author of the novels \u003cem\u003eCaught\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFebruary\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAlligator\u003c\/em\u003e; the story collections \u003cem\u003eOpen\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSomething for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e; and the young-adult novel \u003cem\u003eFlannery\u003c\/em\u003e. Her books have won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads, been finalists for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Moore is also the co-librettist, along with Laura Kaminsky, of the opera \u003cem\u003eFebruary\u003c\/em\u003e, based on her novel of the same name. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","ContributorRole_2":"Introduction by","Contributor_0":"Blais, Marie-Claire (CA)","Contributor_1":"Fischman, Sheila (CA)","Contributor_2":"Moore, Lisa (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’ prize-winning novel cycle — acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction — reissued in a handsome A List edition, featuring an introduction by \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1995 under the title \u003ci\u003eSoifs\u003c\/i\u003e, the first novel in Marie-Claire Blais’ masterful series won the Governor General’s Award for French Fiction and was hailed by critics around the world as a tour de force, comparing Blais to such literary greats as Virginia Woolf, Dante, Sophocles, and Shakespeare. In this dazzling rendering, \u003ci\u003eThese Festive Nights\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrated translator Sheila Fischman brings Blais’ novel to life for English-speaking readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sun-drenched paradise in the Gulf of Mexico surrounded by the glimmering blue sea; Renata is convalescing on this island poised between two worlds: between great wealth and extreme poverty, between the past and an uncertain future, between the beauty of the world and the horrors of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring her time here, Renata becomes tormented by thirst — for justice, for pleasure, for intoxication — while all around her, festivities are going on in joint celebration of the birth of baby Vincent and the end of the twentieth century. Over the course of three days and three nights a flock of characters assembles — an entire spectrum of humanity is depicted in the grip of doubt and suffering. 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As her stature as a literary legend grows, House of Anansi wishes to aptly honour her \u003cem\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/em\u003e with special editions of her most acclaimed novels in English translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA SEMINAL TRANSLATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSheila Fischman is the preeminent translator of French fiction in Canada and has twice received the Félix Antoine-Savard Award from the Translation Center at Columbia University. Her translation work has helped to spread a new generation of French voices across North America, including Michel Tremblay, Hubert Aquin, Jacques Poulin, Anne Hébert, and Kim Thúy.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA SPECIAL REISSUE FOLLOWING AN ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis A List reissue will land just a few short months after Marie-Claire Blais’ newest novel in the Soifs cycle, \u003cem\u003eA Twilight Celebration\u003c\/em\u003e, publishes in June 2018. Reviewers and prize juries will surely be buzzing about the new work, and this will be an excellent time to reinvigorate Blais’ impressive backlist for rediscovery and for a brand-new generation of readers.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED LITERARY ICON:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMarie-Claire Blais is a literary icon. Her work is treasured in Canada, and it is widely revered in the U.S. Her writing has been described as “magical,” “powerful,” and “enriching,” and her award-winning series about contemporary North America has been compared to works by Virginia Woolf. As her stature as a literary legend grows, House of Anansi wishes to aptly honour her \u003cem\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/em\u003e with special editions of her most acclaimed novels in English translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA SEMINAL TRANSLATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSheila Fischman is the preeminent translator of French fiction in Canada and has twice received the Félix Antoine-Savard Award from the Translation Center at Columbia University. Her translation work has helped to spread a new generation of French voices across North America, including Michel Tremblay, Hubert Aquin, Jacques Poulin, Anne Hébert, and Kim Thúy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA SPECIAL REISSUE FOLLOWING AN ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis A List reissue will land just a few short months after Marie-Claire Blais’ newest novel in the Soifs cycle, \u003cem\u003eA Twilight Celebration\u003c\/em\u003e, publishes in June 2018. Reviewers and prize juries will surely be buzzing about the new work, and this will be an excellent time to reinvigorate Blais’ impressive backlist for rediscovery and for a brand-new generation of readers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Marie-Claire Blais’s best, and without a doubt, the richest and most impressive tableau d’époque I have read in a long time . . . Blais has modestly, generously, written The Divine Comedy of our time.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_1":"[These Festive Nights] resounds with what has become a Blais leitmotif: the spiritual thirst born of hardship, and the hunger for redemption in a brutal world.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The Gazette","OtherText_Review_2":"[In These Festive Nights] Marie-Claire Blais appeals to the best part of who we are. It’s a book that we finish reluctantly and with a deep sense of gratitude for the characters who, like the heroes of Sophocles and Shakespeare, are the messengers of a hidden truth of fundamental concern to the human heart.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Magazine Littéraire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The first volume in Marie-Claire Blais’ ten-book \"Soifs\" novel cycle, acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2018-08-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"A List","ShortDescription":"The first volume in Marie-Claire Blais’ ten-book \"Soifs\" novel cycle, acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
These Festive Nights
The first volume in Marie-Claire Blais’ ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle, acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction.
