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{"id":6817704214587,"title":"The Emperor of Lies","handle":"the-emperor-of-lies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director -- and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s very existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom one of Sweden's most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of Lies\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four years. Driven by a titanic ambition, he sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove to make it --and himself -- indispensable to the Nazi regime. 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The Emperor of Lies
Winner of the prestigious August Prize, The Emperor of Lies is a powerfully moving story set in World War II Poland.
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{"id":6817703100475,"title":"Still Counting the Dead","handle":"still-counting-the-dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary book. This dignified, just and unbearable account of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone.\" — Roma Tearne, author of \u003cem\u003eMosquito\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns, and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout that the world was unaware of their suffering. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow, a UN enquiry has called for war crimes investigation, and Frances Harrison, a BBC correspondent for Sri Lanka during the conflict, recounts those crimes for the first time in sobering, shattering detail.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:31-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:21:12-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","Anansi International","By (author) Harrison Frances","pub date: 2012-09-20"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2495,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220016214075,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893047","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Still Counting the Dead - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2495,"weight":390,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770893047","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220021030971,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893054","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Still Counting the Dead - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770893054","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220023619643,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897656","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Still Counting the Dead - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897656","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9285ce70-4d92-42f1-807f-6c91afbc9aa2.jpg?v=1678598216"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9285ce70-4d92-42f1-807f-6c91afbc9aa2.jpg?v=1678598216","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324531392571,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.655,"height":2752,"width":1802,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9285ce70-4d92-42f1-807f-6c91afbc9aa2.jpg?v=1678598216"},"aspect_ratio":0.655,"height":2752,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9285ce70-4d92-42f1-807f-6c91afbc9aa2.jpg?v=1678598216","width":1802}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary book. This dignified, just and unbearable account of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone.\" — Roma Tearne, author of \u003cem\u003eMosquito\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns, and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout that the world was unaware of their suffering. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow, a UN enquiry has called for war crimes investigation, and Frances Harrison, a BBC correspondent for Sri Lanka during the conflict, recounts those crimes for the first time in sobering, shattering detail.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Still Counting the Dead
BBC correspondent Frances Harrison covers the attacks on Sri Lanka’s Tamils, civilians, and rebels alike by their own government.
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Doppler
A bestseller in Scandinavia — Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose.
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{"id":6816229720123,"title":"Maggie \u0026amp; Me","handle":"maggie-amp-me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLong-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e' selection for Memoir of the Year.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning to end.\" — Diana Athill, Costa Book Award–winning author of Somewhere Towards the End \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank McCourt's \u003cem\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e crossed with Billy Elliot, Maggie \u0026amp; Me is a unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Thatcher years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 12, 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. 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Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions, and makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice, Damian works hard and plans his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life and — in spite of violence, strikes, AIDS, and Clause 28 — manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaggie \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of, the Iron Lady.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Maggie & Me
A unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years.
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War defined my entire childhood and all but the last two years of my adult life. It was a time when neighbor turned against neighbor, schools were divided, friendships and romances broken off. A time when suspicions grew, movements were restricted, freedoms curtailed, and people’s rights were compromised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u2028\u2028\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the government of Sri Lanka in May 2009, I worked on an essay for a magazine about my experiences as a child growing up in Sri Lanka. The editor and I went back and forth several times, and during the process it became clear that the editor wanted a clearly delineated tale about villains and saints, uncomplicated by the nuances of my own, real experience. While I understood that American newspaper culture looked for black and white, the story I was writing was not so simple, and I needed to place it within fiction in order to allow it the necessary space. \u003c\/p\u003e\u2028\u2028\u003cp\u003eI wrote down seven hundred words about several very different families who lived on one lane, and sent it to one of my brothers. He happened to be online and we started chatting about what I had written. He reminded me of the riots, and what happened that day when we were very young and interpreted the world differently than we do now. It was the stuff of online chats, those half-sentences lacking punctuation, but right away I realized that this was exactly what I had been harkening toward. I didn’t want official statements and propaganda to be the only story heard. I wanted to give people a sense of who we once were, who we became, and how we all lost something that was worth fighting for in that shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u2028 \u2028\u003cp\u003eAs a political journalist I understand perfectly how easy it is to reinterpret or misinterpret anything that is said or done, how necessary it is to stay focused on a single message. When I write short political pieces, my opinions are always clear and, often, unforgiving. Fiction is the place where I look for the truth, because it allows for conversation. When I write fiction I am interested in engaging with readers. To see what they think, to hear what they have “taken” from the book, what I intended and what I did not. There is more truth to be had in a communal evocation of it than there is in single-person reportage. 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With the publication of the book coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the war’s end, I feel there will be a chance to get this message out both to Sri Lankans and to an American audience: wars can and do end, peace is possible so long as there is acknowledgment of wrongdoing to be set beside the necessity of forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Lovingly written, historically rich and compassionate to all sides of the turmoil.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"…with prose both lingering and breathtaking – the children, even the lane’s bully who could have been different with just the occasional kindness, will charm you, tease you, play with you, and when they leave you, they’ll shatter your heart.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"BookDragon, book review blog produced by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC)","OtherText_Review_2":"By the time Freeman’s characters are finally tested, some found wanting, some proving to be caring neighbours after all, the reader is thoroughly invested in the fate of all the residents on Sal Mal Lane.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Joel Yanofsky","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"Ru Freeman is a tender-hearted fireball.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Hope Mills","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Millions","OtherText_Review_4":"There is something positively Russian in the feel of this book – in its full-bodied evocation of domestic lives...which, beyond logic and any ability I might have to convey it, draw us in almost hypnotically.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Kathleen Byrne","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"It is the Heraths, and especially their children — Suren, Rashmi, Nihil and little Devi — who are at the heart of this generous story…They are wondrous to behold, with their intelligence, imagination and innocence. 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On Sal Mal Lane
This epic novel explores the lives of the families that live on Sal Mal Lane and the heartbreaking ways this once harmonious community turns to war.
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Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
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{"id":6582764306491,"title":"Swearing Is Good For You","handle":"swearing-is-good-for-you","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid you know that chimpanzees can swear? Or that we do most of our swearing in our first language? Have you ever noticed that swearing is an excellent painkiller?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn delightfully fun and accessible language, backed by riveting historical case studies and the latest cutting-edge research, Dr. Emma Byrne explores the science behind swearing and why bad language might actually be good for us. Swearing, it turns out, is socially and emotionally essential. Not only has some form of swearing been around since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, prevent violence, help stroke victims recover their language, and help people work together as a team. \u003ci\u003eSwearing Is Good For You\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:15:47-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:15:47-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","Anansi International","By (author) Byrne Emma","pub date: 2017-11-25"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403473010747,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001780","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Swearing Is Good For You - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001780","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413928493115,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001773","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Swearing Is Good For You - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":280,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001773","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413928656955,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001797","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Swearing Is Good For You - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001797","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_775a499a-a638-4b84-a2a8-c2aae82887e4.jpg?v=1651991425"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_775a499a-a638-4b84-a2a8-c2aae82887e4.jpg?v=1651991425","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22038719430715,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_775a499a-a638-4b84-a2a8-c2aae82887e4.jpg?v=1651991425"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_775a499a-a638-4b84-a2a8-c2aae82887e4.jpg?v=1651991425","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid you know that chimpanzees can swear? Or that we do most of our swearing in our first language? Have you ever noticed that swearing is an excellent painkiller?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn delightfully fun and accessible language, backed by riveting historical case studies and the latest cutting-edge research, Dr. Emma Byrne explores the science behind swearing and why bad language might actually be good for us. Swearing, it turns out, is socially and emotionally essential. Not only has some form of swearing been around since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, prevent violence, help stroke victims recover their language, and help people work together as a team. \u003ci\u003eSwearing Is Good For You\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Swearing Is Good for You makes science feel downright celebratory.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Mary Norris","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[From the Introduction]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was about nine years old, I was smacked for calling my little brother a ‘twat.’ I had no idea what a twat was – I thought it was just a silly way of saying ‘twit’ – but that smack taught me that some words are more powerful than others and that I had to be careful how I used them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as you’ve no doubt gathered, that experience didn’t exactly cure me of swearing. In fact it probably went some way towards piquing my fascination with profanity. Since then I’ve had a certain pride in my knack for colourful and well-timed swearing: being a woman in a male-dominated field, I rely on it to camouflage myself as one of the guys. Calling some equipment a piece of shit is often a necessary rite of passage when I join a new team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when I discovered that other scientists have been taking swearing seriously for a long time – and that I’m not the only person who finds judicious profanity useful – I was fucking delighted! I first began to realise there was more to swearing than a bit of banter or blasphemy when I happened to read a study that involved 67 volunteers, a bucket of ice water, a swear word and a stopwatch. I was working in a neuroscience lab at the time and that study changed the course of my research. It set me on a quest to study swearing: why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor example, I’m definitely not the only person who uses swearing as a way of fitting in at work. Research shows that swearing can help build teams in the work place. From the factory floor to the operating theatre, scientists have shown that teams who share the same lexicon of swearing tend to work more effectively together, feel closer, and be more productive than those that don’t. These same studies show that managing stress in the same way that we manage pain – with a fucking good swear – is more effective than any number of team building exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has also helped to develop the field of neuroscience. By providing us with a useful emotional barometer, swearing has been used as a research tool for over 150 years. It has helped us to discover some fascinating things about the structure of the human brain, such as its division into left and right hemispheres, and the role of cerebral structures like the amygdala in the regulation of emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has taught us a great deal about our minds, too. We know that people who learn a second language often find it less stressful to swear in their adopted tongue, which gives us an idea of the childhood developmental stages at which we learn emotions and taboos. Swearing also makes the heart beat faster, and primes us to think aggressive thoughts while, paradoxically, making us less likely to be physically violent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd swearing is a surprisingly flexible part of our linguistic repertoire. It re-invents itself from generation to generation as taboos shift. Profanity has even become part of the way we express positive feelings – we know that football fans use ‘fuck’ just as frequently when they’re happy as when they are angry or frustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat last finding is one of my own. With colleagues at City University, London, I’ve studied thousands of football fans and their bad language during big games. It’s no great surprise that football fans swear, and that they are particularly fond of ‘fuck’ and ‘shit.’ But we noticed something interesting about the ratio between these two swearwords. The ‘fuck-shit’ ratio is a reliable indicator of which team has scored because, it turns out that ‘shit’ is almost universally negative while ‘fuck’ can be a sign of something good or bad. Swearing amongst football fans also isn’t anywhere near as aggressive as you might think; fans on Twitter almost never swear about their opponents and reserve their outbursts for players on their own team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing is one of those things that comes so naturally, and seems so frivolous, that you might be surprised by the number of scientists who are studying it. But neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians have long taken an interest in bad language, and for good reason. Although swearing might seem frivolous it teaches us a lot about how our brains, our minds and even our societies work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book won’t just look at swearing in isolation. One of the things that makes swearing so fucking amazing is the sheer breadth of connections it has with our lives. Throughout this book I’ll cover many different topics, some of which may seem like digressions. There are plenty of pages that contain no profanity whatsoever but, from the indirectness of Japanese speech patterns to the unintended consequences of potty training chimpanzees, everything relates back to the way that we use bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs this book simply an attempt to justify rudeness and aggression? Not at all. I certainly wouldn’t want profanities to become commonplace: swearing needs to maintain its emotional impact in order to work. We only need to look at the way that swearing has changed over the last 100 years to see that, as some swearwords become mild and ineffectual through over-use or shifting cultural values, we reach for other taboos to fill the gap. Where blasphemy was once the true obscenity, the modern unsayables include racist and sexist terms as swearwords. Depending on your point of view this is either a lamentable shift towards political correctness or timely recognition that bigotry is ugly and damaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\"Lively . . . In exploring the universe of swearing, [Byrne] has lined up some nifty stories.\"","OtherText_Review_0":"[Swearing] deserves a closer, clinical look. And Emma Byrne, a scientist and a journalist who has done research in the field, is well qualified to be our guide.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Lively . . . In exploring the universe of swearing, [Byrne] has lined up some nifty stories.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"Written in an engaging and conversational style . . . Byrne provides a refreshing, entertaining, instructive examination of a ‘surprisingly flexible part of a linguistic repertoire.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2017-11-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","Subtitle":"The Amazing Science of Bad Language"}
Swearing Is Good For You
In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.
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And why — and how — has she come back now? \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e is the most unputdownable and extraordinary novel you will read this year.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","EAN":"9781770898240","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770898240\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","guide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770898240\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=guide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"Literary; women writers; Desmond Elliott Prize; survivalist; North London Retreaters; wilderness; nature; discovery; debut novel; post apocalyptic; fairy tale; magical realism; Desmond Elliott Prize Winner; Contemporary Fiction; betrayal; book club; coming of age; literary fiction; historical fiction; survival; family; relationships; dystopian; thriller; family drama; end of the world; kidnapping; female writers; survival stories; forests; dysfunctional families","NumberOfPages":"304","OtherText_Review_0":"I finished this book and turned right back to the first page to start it again. Like the wilderness into which Claire Fuller's characters disappear, Our Endless Numbered Days is rigged with barbs and poisons, tricks and tragedies. It’s weird and wild and sometimes terrifying, but it’s also beautiful and heartbreaking and breathlessly alive.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Amy Stewart, author of New York Times Bestseller The Drunken Botanist","OtherText_Review_1":"Graciously written and capriciously imagined, Our Endless Numbered Days holds up a magnifying lens to the human spirit and deftly captures both its fragility and its resilience. The brilliant ending, like the best endings do, casts new light on all that comes before it.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls","OtherText_Review_2":"Our Endless Numbered Days is suspenseful, utterly riveting, and as dark as midnight in the forest.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rebecca Hunt, author of Everland and Mr. Chartwell","OtherText_Review_3":"This young girl’s harrowing experience growing up in the wilderness and living only with her father establishes that what’s more terrifying than the perils of nature is being made captive by the ideals of one’s parents. The lasting impression of Our Endless Numbered Days, which gracefully seesaws back and forth between two different time periods, however, is not one of how horrid an experience can be, but how resourceful and resilient the human psyche can become in order to survive. Fuller eschews the conventional means of providing labored explanations of emotions, and in its place deftly relies on the power of description to invoke genuine feeling. The result is beautiful. It will keep you turning the pages, and long afterwards it will keep you turning over in your mind the events in this haunting story.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Yannick Murphy, author of The Call and This Is the Water","OtherText_Review_4":"A remarkable first novel. I was much impressed by the conviction of the child’s-eye view, the vivid climate, and the power of the narrative.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Penelope Lively","OtherText_Review_5":"You don’t really know what’s going on in this surreal psychological thriller until the OMG–worthy denouement. Eight-year-old Peggy is kidnapped by her survivalist father, who tells her the world has come to an end and keeps her prisoner in a deserted cabin. The true horror of what happens to Peggy, a survivalist of a different stripe, emerges only in the final pages. Prepare yourself.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Flare","OtherText_Review_6":"Fuller’s book has the winning combination of an unreliable narrator and a shocking ending.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_7":"Both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is combined with some very dark undertones.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Desmond Elliott Prize Jury","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeName_0":"Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel","PrizeYear_0":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2015-02-22","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Our Endless Numbered Days
A powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.
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With courage, humour, and unfailing emotional honesty, Péter Gárdos illuminates the incredible power of the human will — the drive not just to stay alive, but to fight for a life worth celebrating.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Péter Gárdos gives us the extraordinary tale of his parents’ courage, faith and love in the aftermath of the Holocaust … This book is a testament to the power of good to heal broken spirits, of love to empower hope, and of faith to sustain a celebration of life that could be shared down the generations … Gárdos shows that we survive together. It is not the past but the sharing of our humanity that enables individuals and societies to build new futures. It is the decision to trust life’s goodness and to act from it that enables us to thrive collectively. 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With playfulness and charm, with iron conviction, Fever at Dawn will convince you that it’s possible not only to survive the worst of human hell, but to transcend it.","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name","OtherText_Review_0":"Like other writers of fictionalised memoir — Karl Ove Knausgaard and Elena Ferrante come to mind — Gardos’s novel gains an extra dimension when the narrative reverts into the present tense, and he movingly considers the words his parents don’t write to each other in their letters … There is a timeless quality to Fever at Dawn, a kind of classical romanticism. Trite as it sounds, bromides such as “love conquers all” carry real weight when written in the context of Lili and Miklos’s story. Gardos’s fascinating novel is sure to become a staple in book clubs.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"The Australian","OtherText_Review_1":"Deeply moving … There is little in this story of the horrors of Belsen and forced labour on starvation rations, and much of friendship, determined persistence, and transcendent love.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Otago Daily Times","OtherText_Review_2":"[Fever at Dawn] has the sweetness of The Rosie Project and the pathos of The Fault in Our Stars … A book to fall in love with.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Herald Sun","OtherText_Review_3":"A poignant, ultimately uplifting story of how the longing for love and family can defy tragedy and terror.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Sunday Express","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2016-04-30","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Fever at Dawn
A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.
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She has translated books by Fredrik Backman and Katarina Bivald, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Khemiri, Jonas Hassen","Contributor_1":"Menzies, Alice","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA grandfather who lives abroad returns home to Sweden to visit his adult children. His son is a failure. His daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather himself is perfect — in his own eyes, at least.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of ten intense days, relationships unfold and painful memories resurface. The grandfather confronts his past. The daughter faces an impossible choice. The son tries to write himself free. Something has to give. According to a long-standing family agreement, the grandfather has maintained his Swedish citizenship by coming to stay with his son in Stockholm every six months. 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And now, some weeks later, I know I will never forget the grandfather, the son who is a father, the sister, or the girlfriend. They are here to stay in my mind, like those other fictional characters you never meet in real life but whom you would recognize on the street the minute you saw them. Their personalities are far from perfect, but because of that, you love them all the more for who they are.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Herman Koch, author of The Dinner","OtherText_Accolades_1":"A beautiful study of familial need and mess, in which the universal and the particular play footsie with each other. Deft, artful, but above all insightful till it hurts, this is Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s best yet.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Nikita Lalwani, author of The Village","OtherText_Accolades_2":"A bold and remarkable novel — a marvel of form and imagination that is also miraculously full of heart and compassion.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names","OtherText_Accolades_3":"The Family Clause vibrates with rueful humour and quiet wisdom. The more you get to know the characters contained within it, the more you see how tremendously large Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s heart must be. His redemptive vision is rare and needed in these dark times.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Joshua Furst, author of Revolutionaries","OtherText_Review_0":"Exquisitely translated by Alice Menzies, this novel by a significant Swedish author and playwright is deceptively simple. It is narrated over ten days, each day a new section. The first day presents the return of a ‘grandfather’ — who now spends time in his ‘old country’ for several months at a stretch — and his interactions with his two children: a professionally successful daughter who is also a divorced mother and estranged from her son, and a far less successful son with a family showing signs of strain under the pressures of parental care … The Family Clause ranges from the parodic to the sentimental to the tragic without ever hitting a false note. This flexibility of register is essential to a narrative about this web of relations, with its various embedded traumas, delights, and absurdities.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Tabish Khair","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Times Literary Supplement","OtherText_Review_1":"Satisfying . . . Khemiri succeeds at creating an infectious sense of melancholia as the poisonous patriarch is forced to reckon with the truth. In a slow build of quotidian moments, Khemiri constructs a familiarly flawed universe that lays bare what it means to be human.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"This nuanced, dryly hilarious novel is a sharply observed window into modern family dynamics.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Khemiri’s prose has a zing and bite stylishly served by Alice Menzies’ pacy, idiomatic translation.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Spectator","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeName_0":"National Book Award for Translated Literature","PrizeName_1":"Le prix Medicis du roman étranger","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-06-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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{"id":6811314126907,"title":"This Lovely City","handle":"this-lovely-city","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London, \u003ci\u003eThis Lovely City\u003c\/i\u003e shows that new arrivals have always been the prime suspects — but that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon, 1950.\u003c\/i\u003e With the war over and London still rebuilding, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for labour. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the \u003ci\u003eEmpire Windrush\u003c\/i\u003e, he’s rented a tiny room in south London and fallen in love with the girl next door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaying in Soho’s jazz clubs by night and pacing the streets as a postman by day, Lawrie has poured his heart into his new home — and it’s alive with possibility. 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Four people with dark skin tone stand on top of the letters of the title. The letters in all three words of the title are staggered like stairs. One man in a suit plays the clarinet. A couple dances on separate letters. Another man in a suit plays the saxophone. Text: This Lovely City. 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Immersive, poignant, and utterly compelling, Louise Hare’s debut examines the complexities of love and belonging, and teaches us that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487007058","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487007058\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.25","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"Brixton; race riot; racism; Trinidad; Caribbean; migrant; diaspora; 1950s; post colonial; love story; Where the Crawdads Sing; Queenie; Zadie Smith; Maya Angelou; Langston Hughes; Well Read Black Girl; Frying Plantain; Black character; Toni Morrison; murder; Contemporary British Literature; Black Author; Immigrant community; Call the Midwife; Summer of Rockets; Bletchley Circle; Debut","NumberOfPages":"400","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eHe cycled back the way he’d come, recognizing the woman he’d seen with the terrier as he drew close to Eagle Pond, but the dog was nowhere to be seen. There was something strange about the way she was moving, and he found himself slowing down. She was pacing up and down in front of the pond, looking for something. Her gait was lopsided, and, when she drew closer, he saw that her face was wet from tears that were blinding her. She didn’t notice Lawrie until the last moment, suddenly aiming towards him and coming up short as she took him in properly. She held herself rigid, her mouth gasping for air that her lungs didn’t seem to want to accept.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Ma’am?” Lawrie swung his leg and dismounted, making his movements slow so that she didn’t spook. “You all right? Can I help you?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eShe looked over her shoulder but turned back to him, fixing her eyes on his uniform. Whatever she’d seen was more frightening than one skinny black man. And there was no one else in sight. “You — you’re … a postman?” Her tongue tripped as she spoke.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Yes, ma’am. Do you need help?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eShe nodded and pointed in the direction she’d come from, a ragged sob creasing her body.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHe couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary at first. There was the pond, and there he spied the terrier. The small dog was soaked through. Barking urgently at him, it ran back towards the water.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“The pond.” The woman squeezed out the words, and he noticed now that her hands were filthy, her coat spattered with mud.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“There’s something in the pond?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eIt was useless. She had begun to shiver, her teeth actually chattering as shock took hold. Lawrie laid his bike down on the grass and headed towards the pond on foot. The dog was still barking in a fury, running laps between the edge of the pond and the path.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“What you got, boy?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe dog splashed into the water, checking back to make sure he was being followed. There was a bundle there, a dirty blanket that once had been white. Lawrie crouched by the edge next to a smaller set of footprints that must have belonged to the woman. It didn’t look like much, this wad of sodden wool, but that didn’t stop fear from squeezing his chest tight as he reached out with his right hand, the palm of his left sinking into freezing mud as he tried to keep his balance.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHe strained his arm and caught an inch of fabric between two fingers. Pulling gently, the bundle moved closer and he grabbed a tighter hold. The wool was heavy with water. White and yellow embroidered flowers peeked out from beneath the pond filth. Daisies. When he lifted it the bundle was heavier than he’d anticipated, but it wasn’t the weight that sent him crashing to the ground — only sheer luck landing him onto the bank rather than into the water. His heart pounded his ribs so hard that he glanced down at his chest, expecting to see it burst out through his coat, scattering buttons onto the ground.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe blanket lay there on the grass, the bundle coming apart. A baby’s arm had escaped, along with a shock of dark curly hair and a glimpse of a cheek. It could have been a doll, but one touch had been enough to convince him that it wasn’t. The hand was frozen stiff but the skin gave as his fingers had brushed against it.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eSomeone had left a baby in the pond to die. A baby whose skin was as dark as Lawrie’s.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Louise Hare’s debut novel pairs a poignant tale of young love and shameful prejudice with a twisting mystery, all embedded in a historical moment with keen contemporary resonance. Tantalizing ingredients to be sure, yet it’s her steady, calm prose, and the animating authenticity of her material that make [This Lovely City] so hard to resist.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_1":"Tenderly evokes the experiences of the Windrush generation in postwar London.","OtherText_Review_10":"Poignant and compelling.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Hello!","OtherText_Review_11":"An exciting ride … I demolished it in two sittings.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Daily Record","OtherText_Review_12":"Vividly captures the life of the times, and the trials faced by the Caribbean immigrants who were enticed to come to Britain by the government, but who faced discrimination and economic hurdles in society … [Louise Hare’s] characters are well developed … and give life to the immigrant community … This Lovely City’s many storylines — prejudice, romance, dark hidden secrets, immigrant life — are engaging and paint a vivid picture of life in a nation that is trying to reshape itself in the years following a devastating world war and new economic and societal challenges.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Independant","OtherText_Review_2":"You’ll root for Lawrie and Evie and won’t fail to notice the timely message of Hare’s beautifully told tale.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Cosmopolitan","OtherText_Review_3":"This Lovely City tells the story of a group of people searching for a place to belong and discovering the power of persistence and hope to carry them through.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_4":"Hare’s absorbing narrative builds a compelling portrait of immigrants struggling to belong to a country that needs but doesn’t really want them . . . A must read for fans of Zadie Smith and Call the Midwife.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_5":"This hotly anticipated debut offers a vivid portrait of the immigrant experience in postwar London.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_6":"You’ll be rooting for the pair from start to finish.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Glamour","OtherText_Review_7":"[A] mistress of suspense, Hare keeps us guessing to the last page. I loved the postwar atmosphere: bombed, broken London as a visual metaphor for the story’s violence and racism.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"A well-told mystery, a powerful depiction of the prejudice experienced by the Windrush generation, and a poignant love story, This Lovely City is a must read.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_9":"Expect to be obsessed … [A book] you need to know about.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Good Housekeeping","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
This Lovely City
An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.
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These stories, based on a massive trove of previously undisclosed telephone calls, audio, and text shared by an anonymous source, came to light only months after the January 2019 inauguration of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe revelations “had an explosive impact on Brazilian politics” (\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e) and prompted serious rancor, including direct attacks by President Bolsonaro himself, and ultimately an attempt by the government to criminally prosecute Greenwald for his reporting. “A wave of death threats — in a country where political violence is commonplace — have poured in, preventing me from ever leaving my house for any reason without armed guards and an armored vehicle,” Greenwald writes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecuring Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a gripping journey through Brazilian politics as Greenwald, his husband, the left-wing congressman David Miranda, and a powerful opposition movement courageously challenge political corruption, homophobia, and tyranny. 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These stories, based on a massive trove of previously undisclosed telephone calls, audio, and text shared by an anonymous source, came to light only months after the January 2019 inauguration of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe revelations “had an explosive impact on Brazilian politics” (\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e) and prompted serious rancor, including direct attacks by President Bolsonaro himself, and ultimately an attempt by the government to criminally prosecute Greenwald for his reporting. “A wave of death threats — in a country where political violence is commonplace — have poured in, preventing me from ever leaving my house for any reason without armed guards and an armored vehicle,” Greenwald writes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecuring Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a gripping journey through Brazilian politics as Greenwald, his husband, the left-wing congressman David Miranda, and a powerful opposition movement courageously challenge political corruption, homophobia, and tyranny. 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Securing Democracy
Greenwald documents the courageous fight for press freedom in Brazil, where authoritarianism and rampant corruption threaten the most fundamental principles of democracy.