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{"id":6582743564347,"title":"La Guerre, Yes Sir!","handle":"la-guerre-yes-sir","description":"\u003cp\u003eVital, funny, moving and assured, \u003cem\u003eLa Guerre, Yes Sir!\u003c\/em\u003e is a surrealist fable set in rural Quebec during WWI and one of the major achievements in Canadian fiction. Canadian Literature greeted its first appearance in these terms: It is the French-Canadian writer Roch Carrier who comes closest to the significance, power and artistry of Faulkner at his best … He might well be able to do for French Canada what Faulkner did for the American South.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:10:51-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:10:51-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Carrier Roch","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 1998-04-01"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403440013371,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849305","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"La Guerre, Yes Sir! - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849305","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413528166459,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896758","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"La Guerre, Yes Sir! - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896758","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_33df4f7c-f766-4b87-b3de-12c27f6d5d5f.jpg?v=1723949346"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_33df4f7c-f766-4b87-b3de-12c27f6d5d5f.jpg?v=1723949346","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743101530171,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":2400,"width":1496,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_33df4f7c-f766-4b87-b3de-12c27f6d5d5f.jpg?v=1723949346"},"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_33df4f7c-f766-4b87-b3de-12c27f6d5d5f.jpg?v=1723949346","width":1496}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eVital, funny, moving and assured, \u003cem\u003eLa Guerre, Yes Sir!\u003c\/em\u003e is a surrealist fable set in rural Quebec during WWI and one of the major achievements in Canadian fiction. Canadian Literature greeted its first appearance in these terms: It is the French-Canadian writer Roch Carrier who comes closest to the significance, power and artistry of Faulkner at his best … He might well be able to do for French Canada what Faulkner did for the American South.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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La Guerre, Yes Sir!
This first novel in Roch Carrier's La Guerre trilogy contains a wedding, a funeral, and a full company of Carrier's joyful, blaspheming characters.
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{"id":6582740254779,"title":"In the Orchard, the Swallows","handle":"in-the-orchard-the-swallows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year and Chapters\/Indigo Best Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the air. Pomegranates hang heavy, their skins darkening to a deep crimson. Neglected now, the trees are beginning to grow wild, their fruit left to spoil on the branches. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany miles away, a frail young man is flung out of prison gates. Looking up, scanning the horizon for swallows in flight, he stumbles and collapses in the roadside dust. 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In the Orchard, the Swallows
Named a Book of the Year by both the Guardian and Chapters/Indigo, In the Orchard, the Swallows is a moving story of lost love in war-torn Pakistan.
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{"id":6582738780219,"title":"A House Divided","handle":"a-house-divided","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this Anansi Digital Publication, James Laxer analyzes the descent of the United States into civil conflict. At a time when American society is roiled by deep divisions over immigration, guns, the role of the state, and the economic crisis, Laxer makes the case that serious conflict is likely to be generated from the right of the American political spectrum, from the forces he refers to as \"Old America.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaxer poses the provocative question: Is the United States once again \"A House Divided\" to use Lincoln’s famous phrase on the eve of the American Civil War. Laxer argues that Old America is increasingly desperate in the face of the demographic and societal changes that are transforming the country. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaxer shows how old elites, the French aristocracy on the eve of the Revolution, and the Southern Slaveocracy who started the Civil War, can provoke desperate conflicts to salvage their positions. Could this happen in America today?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaxer wrote \u003cem\u003eA House Divided\u003c\/em\u003e while in California in the winter of 2013 where he was writing \u003cem\u003eTravels Through the Golden State: A California Diary\u003c\/em\u003e, also an Anansi Digital Publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:57-05:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:09:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","Anansi Digital","By (author) Laxer James","pub date: 2013-06-28"],"price":199,"price_min":199,"price_max":199,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403431985211,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894242","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A House Divided - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":199,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770894242","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413431173179,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896550","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A House Divided - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":199,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896550","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b9512cbf-906e-4464-bdb6-7bc0f79def43.jpg?v=1723949512"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b9512cbf-906e-4464-bdb6-7bc0f79def43.jpg?v=1723949512","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743102021691,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b9512cbf-906e-4464-bdb6-7bc0f79def43.jpg?v=1723949512"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b9512cbf-906e-4464-bdb6-7bc0f79def43.jpg?v=1723949512","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn this Anansi Digital Publication, James Laxer analyzes the descent of the United States into civil conflict. At a time when American society is roiled by deep divisions over immigration, guns, the role of the state, and the economic crisis, Laxer makes the case that serious conflict is likely to be generated from the right of the American political spectrum, from the forces he refers to as \"Old America.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaxer poses the provocative question: Is the United States once again \"A House Divided\" to use Lincoln’s famous phrase on the eve of the American Civil War. Laxer argues that Old America is increasingly desperate in the face of the demographic and societal changes that are transforming the country. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaxer shows how old elites, the French aristocracy on the eve of the Revolution, and the Southern Slaveocracy who started the Civil War, can provoke desperate conflicts to salvage their positions. Could this happen in America today?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaxer wrote \u003cem\u003eA House Divided\u003c\/em\u003e while in California in the winter of 2013 where he was writing \u003cem\u003eTravels Through the Golden State: A California Diary\u003c\/em\u003e, also an Anansi Digital Publication.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A House Divided
In this Anansi Digital work, James Laxer analyzes the descent of the United States into civil conflict.
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{"id":6582738518075,"title":"Homeland","handle":"homeland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Homeland\" is Alissa York's contribution to \u003cem\u003eNorthwords\u003c\/em\u003e, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduced by award-winning journalist and radio personality Shelagh Rogers, \u003cem\u003eNorthwords\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of stories written by acclaimed Canadian authors as they experienced one of Canada’s most awe-inspiring northern national parks Torngat Mountains National Park, the country’s newest national park, and a place steeped in geological and human history. The cross-platform project, which includes a documentary film that follows the authors as they explored the harsh and stunning terrain, had adventures, and created these new works, adds to the continuing story of the North. 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Homeland
Alissa York's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments.
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{"id":6582737502267,"title":"The Heaviest Dress","handle":"the-heaviest-dress","description":"After the death of a favourite aunt with a decadent and intriguing past, a young woman travels back to Montreal for the funeral and reconsiders her own deteriorating life as a failing fashion school student in New York City.","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:09:38-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:09:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Anansi Digital","By (author) Silcoff Mireille","pub date: 2014-12-01"],"price":199,"price_min":199,"price_max":199,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403430674491,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899407","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Heaviest Dress - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":199,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899407","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413421801531,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899414","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Heaviest Dress - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":199,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899414","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3653d834-c12c-45e3-8d24-3939601e6e58.jpg?v=1727574409"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3653d834-c12c-45e3-8d24-3939601e6e58.jpg?v=1727574409","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24827556069435,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3653d834-c12c-45e3-8d24-3939601e6e58.jpg?v=1727574409"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3653d834-c12c-45e3-8d24-3939601e6e58.jpg?v=1727574409","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"After the death of a favourite aunt with a decadent and intriguing past, a young woman travels back to Montreal for the funeral and reconsiders her own deteriorating life as a failing fashion school student in New York City."}
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The Heaviest Dress
“[Silcoff is] like a latter-day Fran Lebowitz, or a less acidic David Rakoff." — Globe and Mail
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{"id":6582732750907,"title":"Far to Go","handle":"far-to-go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award and finalist for the Man Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFar to Go\u003c\/em\u003e, one of our most accomplished young writers takes us inside the world of an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are secular Jews whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of Hitler. They are unable to leave the country in time to avoid deportation, but they do manage to get their six-year-old son Pepik a place on a Kindertransport. Meanwhile, a fascinating and compelling present-day strand in the story slowly reveals the unexpected fates of each of the Bauers. 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Far to Go
This epic novel takes you inside an affluent Jewish family in the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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The Dragon Head of Hong Kong
The prequel to the wildly popular Ava Lee series.
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DarkMarket
A fascinating, hard-hitting, and revealing look at cyber crime, cyber warfare, and cyber industrial espionage.
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{"id":6582726918203,"title":"Congotronic special hardcover edition","handle":"congotronic-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:33-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","Anansi International","By (author) Book Shane","pub date: 2014-09-27"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403414880315,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899025","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Congotronic special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899025","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324463923259,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":2999,"width":2400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":2999,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587","width":2400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Congotronic special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.
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{"id":6582726721595,"title":"Communion","handle":"communion","description":"\u003cp\u003eExclusively available from Anansi Digital, \u003cem\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the lost, great works by a Canadian literary titan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1971, \u003cem\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e continues the story of Felix Oswald that began in \u003cem\u003eFive Legs\u003c\/em\u003e. We meet Felix Oswald again, a self-mocking and obsessed hero, a voyeur, and all-time loser, after he graduates from school and accepts a job as a part-time veterinarian’s assistant. \u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking work of experimental fiction, \u003cem\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for lovers of Canadian literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing an introduction by Sean Kane\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:50:00-05:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:30-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi Digital","By (author) Gibson Graeme","pub date: 2012-10-13"],"price":499,"price_min":499,"price_max":499,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403414683707,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893467","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Communion - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":499,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770893467","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413062074427,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895935","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Communion - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":499,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895935","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b7f4124a-10eb-4e0c-89fe-83617f925301.jpg?v=1723950046"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b7f4124a-10eb-4e0c-89fe-83617f925301.jpg?v=1723950046","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743103070267,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.639,"height":2456,"width":1569,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b7f4124a-10eb-4e0c-89fe-83617f925301.jpg?v=1723950046"},"aspect_ratio":0.639,"height":2456,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b7f4124a-10eb-4e0c-89fe-83617f925301.jpg?v=1723950046","width":1569}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eExclusively available from Anansi Digital, \u003cem\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the lost, great works by a Canadian literary titan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1971, \u003cem\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e continues the story of Felix Oswald that began in \u003cem\u003eFive Legs\u003c\/em\u003e. We meet Felix Oswald again, a self-mocking and obsessed hero, a voyeur, and all-time loser, after he graduates from school and accepts a job as a part-time veterinarian’s assistant. \u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking work of experimental fiction, \u003cem\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for lovers of Canadian literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing an introduction by Sean Kane\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6582724788283,"title":"Carnival","handle":"carnival","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Carnival city there are two types of taxi drivers -- the spiders and the flies. The spiders patiently sit in their cars and wait for the calls to come. But the flies are wanderers - they roam the streets, looking for the raised hands of passengers among life's perpetual flux. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFly is a wanderer and a knower. Raised in the circus, the son of a golden-haired trapeze artist and a flying carpet pilot from the East, he is destined to drift and observe. From his taxi we see the world in all its carnivalesque beauty and ugliness. We meet criminals, prostitutes, madmen, magicians, and clowns of many kinds. 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Carnival confirms Hage's status as a star in the literary firmament.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Laura Eggertson","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_4":"Carnival is a rich and compelling read, a testament to a daring and talented novelist.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Devon Code","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"The normally polite CanLit canon won’t prepare you for the violence, obsession, anger, lust and corruption of Hage’s books ... imagine Camus rewriting Taxi Driver.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Devon Code","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Life","OtherText_Review_6":"Hage’s prose is addictive ... 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Carnival
A memorable novel about the beautiful, twisted existence of life in the modern city, told from the perspective of a taxi driver.
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The Broken Social Scene Story Project
Thirteen short stories inspired by Broken Social Scene's groundbreaking album, You Forgot It In People.
