Categories
All
Quick View
{"id":6815472353339,"title":"Our Endless Numbered Days","handle":"our-endless-numbered-days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" — Desmond Elliott Prize Jury\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of \u003cem\u003eWinter’s Bone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Outlander\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1976 Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of \u003cem\u003eThe Railway Children\u003c\/em\u003e, and listening to her mother’s grand piano. But her life is about to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions to prepare for the end of the world, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. She is not seen again for another nine years.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1985, Peggy has returned to the family home. But what happened to her in the forest? 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","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:44:03-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:40:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","Book Club Pick","By (author) Fuller Claire","pub date: 2015-02-22"],"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":40210002116667,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898240","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Our Endless Numbered Days - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":381,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898240","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40210097406011,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898257","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Our Endless Numbered Days - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898257","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40210097471547,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898264","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Our Endless Numbered Days - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898264","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e5223233-5124-424c-a157-fb2a6d6ed077.jpg?v=1648388159"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e5223233-5124-424c-a157-fb2a6d6ed077.jpg?v=1648388159","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21823517786171,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e5223233-5124-424c-a157-fb2a6d6ed077.jpg?v=1648388159"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e5223233-5124-424c-a157-fb2a6d6ed077.jpg?v=1648388159","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" — Desmond Elliott Prize Jury\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of \u003cem\u003eWinter’s Bone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Outlander\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1976 Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of \u003cem\u003eThe Railway Children\u003c\/em\u003e, and listening to her mother’s grand piano. But her life is about to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions to prepare for the end of the world, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. She is not seen again for another nine years.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1985, Peggy has returned to the family home. But what happened to her in the forest? 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"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781770890022","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781770890121","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770894839","BASICMainSubject":"FIC045000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Family Life \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLAIRE FULLER\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling and award-winning author of three previous novels: \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Desmond Elliot Prize and was a finalist for the ABA Adult Debut Book of the Year Award and the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award; \u003cem\u003eSwimming Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a national bestseller; and \u003cem\u003eBitter Orange\u003c\/em\u003e, which was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e She has an M.A. in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Family Life \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Women","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubject_0":"FIC045000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC044000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC019000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLAIRE FULLER\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling and award-winning author of three previous novels: \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Desmond Elliot Prize and was a finalist for the ABA Adult Debut Book of the Year Award and the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award; \u003cem\u003eSwimming Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a national bestseller; and \u003cem\u003eBitter Orange\u003c\/em\u003e, which was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e She has an M.A. in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Fuller, Claire","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" — Desmond Elliott Prize Jury\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of \u003cem\u003eWinter’s Bone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Outlander\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1976 Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of \u003cem\u003eThe Railway Children\u003c\/em\u003e, and listening to her mother’s grand piano. But her life is about to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions to prepare for the end of the world, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. She is not seen again for another nine years.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1985, Peggy has returned to the family home. But what happened to her in the forest? 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.
Quick View
{"id":6815471206459,"title":"Kapusta","handle":"kapusta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erín Moure's poetry collection Kapusta is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing \"gesture\" and \"voice\" to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, and memory, sorrow and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book \"beyond the book,\" in a space of performance that starts and stops time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e, Ern Moure's avatar Elisa Sampedrn first spoke about theatre and the need for smallness in order to articulate what is huge. Sampedrn, who reappears in the translation mystery \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e as the translator of a language she does not speak, vanishes later in \u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable\u003c\/em\u003e when the split in human identity that results from war and displacement is acknowledged. Now, in \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, the character E. is alone, in the smallest of spaces - the bench behind her grandmother's woodstove in Alberta. Here, E. struggles to face the largest of historical and imagined spaces - the Holocaust in Western Ukraine, and to understand her mother's silence at the sadness of her forebears, her \"salt-shaker love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:43:56-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:39:06-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2015-04-09","Translated by Moure Erín"],"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":40209998676027,"title":"hardcover jacket special edition","option1":"hardcover jacket special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899834","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Kapusta - hardcover jacket special edition","public_title":"hardcover jacket special edition","options":["hardcover jacket special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":272,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899834","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_baa3364d-7e1e-4bed-9916-9641b3d3d8c3.jpg?v=1682245597"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_baa3364d-7e1e-4bed-9916-9641b3d3d8c3.jpg?v=1682245597","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431558758459,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3282,"width":2625,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_baa3364d-7e1e-4bed-9916-9641b3d3d8c3.jpg?v=1682245597"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3282,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_baa3364d-7e1e-4bed-9916-9641b3d3d8c3.jpg?v=1682245597","width":2625}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erín Moure's poetry collection Kapusta is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing \"gesture\" and \"voice\" to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, and memory, sorrow and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book \"beyond the book,\" in a space of performance that starts and stops time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e, Ern Moure's avatar Elisa Sampedrn first spoke about theatre and the need for smallness in order to articulate what is huge. Sampedrn, who reappears in the translation mystery \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e as the translator of a language she does not speak, vanishes later in \u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable\u003c\/em\u003e when the split in human identity that results from war and displacement is acknowledged. Now, in \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, the character E. is alone, in the smallest of spaces - the bench behind her grandmother's woodstove in Alberta. Here, E. struggles to face the largest of historical and imagined spaces - the Holocaust in Western Ukraine, and to understand her mother's silence at the sadness of her forebears, her \"salt-shaker love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487000905","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487008093","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770893979","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eERÍN MOURE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician and French poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize, a co-recipient of the QWF Spoken Word Prize, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtià:ke\/Montréal.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eERÍN MOURE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician and French poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize, a co-recipient of the QWF Spoken Word Prize, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtià:ke\/Montréal.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Moure, Erín (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erín Moure's poetry collection Kapusta is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing \"gesture\" and \"voice\" to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, and memory, sorrow and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book \"beyond the book,\" in a space of performance that starts and stops time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e, Ern Moure's avatar Elisa Sampedrn first spoke about theatre and the need for smallness in order to articulate what is huge. Sampedrn, who reappears in the translation mystery \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e as the translator of a language she does not speak, vanishes later in \u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable\u003c\/em\u003e when the split in human identity that results from war and displacement is acknowledged. Now, in \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, the character E. is alone, in the smallest of spaces - the bench behind her grandmother's woodstove in Alberta. Here, E. struggles to face the largest of historical and imagined spaces - the Holocaust in Western Ukraine, and to understand her mother's silence at the sadness of her forebears, her \"salt-shaker love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770899834","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770899834\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"128","OtherText_Review_0":"Moure’s book is ambitious and deeply original. It is a book of poetry that dismantles poetry; its lyric impulses give way to fragmentation, repetition, and tropes from absurdist theater.\r\n \r\nKapusta bursts with energy, pulsing within a vice-tight formal sophistication, while exploring themes of love, family, loss and motherhood with a genuine, plain lovingkindness.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quebec Writers' Federation's 2015 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erín Moure's poetry collection Kapusta is limited to 50 copies.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry","PrizeYear_0":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket special edition","PublicationDate":"2015-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erín Moure's poetry collection Kapusta is limited to 50 copies.","Subtitle":"Special Edition","Width":"5.875","WidthCode":"in"}
Kapusta
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erín Moure's poetry collection Kapusta is limited to 50 copies.
Quick View
{"id":6815470977083,"title":"The Exiles' Gallery","handle":"the-exiles-gallery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, praised as “first-rate” (James Pollock) for their “authenticity” (Stephanie Bolster) and “brilliant precisions that reflect life’s plenitude” (Rosanna Warren).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called “implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.” Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge’s poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension — whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends — Partridge’s arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. Dispossessed but defiant, these are songs of preservation and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:43:55-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:38:48-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Partridge Elise","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2015-04-09"],"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":40209996644411,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899803","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Exiles' Gallery - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":222,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899803","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9ab28c8a-b76c-4eb8-801a-c0566b70b30c.jpg?v=1678595711"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9ab28c8a-b76c-4eb8-801a-c0566b70b30c.jpg?v=1678595711","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324468576315,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3423,"width":2738,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9ab28c8a-b76c-4eb8-801a-c0566b70b30c.jpg?v=1678595711"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3423,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9ab28c8a-b76c-4eb8-801a-c0566b70b30c.jpg?v=1678595711","width":2738}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, praised as “first-rate” (James Pollock) for their “authenticity” (Stephanie Bolster) and “brilliant precisions that reflect life’s plenitude” (Rosanna Warren).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called “implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.” Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge’s poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension — whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends — Partridge’s arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. Dispossessed but defiant, these are songs of preservation and love.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003432","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487008093","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770894433","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s first book of poems, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and her second, \u003cem\u003eThe Chameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, was a finalist for the BC Book Prize, won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award, and was featured in the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e “Poet’s Choice” column.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s first book of poems, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and her second, \u003cem\u003eThe Chameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, was a finalist for the BC Book Prize, won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award, and was featured in the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e “Poet’s Choice” column.\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Partridge, Elise (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, praised as “first-rate” (James Pollock) for their “authenticity” (Stephanie Bolster) and “brilliant precisions that reflect life’s plenitude” (Rosanna Warren).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called “implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.” Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge’s poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension — whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends — Partridge’s arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. Dispossessed but defiant, these are songs of preservation and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770899803","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770899803\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Canadian; women writers; poetry; contemporary poetry; everyday life; cancer patient; moments; life; compassion; grief; love; Vancouver poet","NumberOfPages":"128","OtherText_Review_0":"First rate . . . a true Canadian heir of Elizabeth Bishop.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Poetryreviews.ca","OtherText_Review_1":"There is no cynicism or pretension here, only the authenticity that comes from careful study of both word and world.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Stephanie Bolster","OtherText_Review_2":"Partridge is a technical wizard for whom thinking and feeling are not separate activities. She is a hawk-like observer of the particular . . . many times ascending to pitch-perfect verse.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection The Exiles' Gallery is limited to 50 copies.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover special edition","PublicationDate":"2015-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection The Exiles' Gallery is limited to 50 copies.","Subtitle":"Special Edition","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Exiles' Gallery
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection The Exiles' Gallery is limited to 50 copies.
Quick View
{"id":6815468847163,"title":"Basic Black with Pearls","handle":"basic-black-with-pearls","description":"\u003cp\u003eA lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence together with torturous memories of guilt and loss as a Jewish immigrant in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShirley Kaszenbowski, née Silverberg, is a middle-aged, middle-class woman in a Holt Renfrew tweed coat, a basic black dress, and a strand of real pearls. She may seem ordinary enough, pricing silk scarves at Eaton’s or idling in hotel coffee shops, but in fact she is searching for her lover. He is an elusive figure, a man connected with “The Agency,” a powerful technocrat who may or may not have suggested a rendezvous based on a secret code in the \u003cem\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer search takes her to the world of her past as a Jewish immigrant in the Spadina-Dundas area of Toronto. She finds the bakeries and rooming houses of her youth still haunted by survivors of postwar Europe and by her own memories of guilt and loss, while the consolations of art, opera, and pornography offer only echoes of her own illusions and desires. Her strange, wryly funny odyssey ends in a dramatic confrontation scene with her husband and “the other woman,” as she trades in her basic black for another chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e, Weinzweig displays her gift for creating sympathetic characters in a slightly surreal, but always recognizable world.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:43:44-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:35:58-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","By (author) Weinzweig Helen","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2015-07-24"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"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":40209989763131,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000479","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Basic Black with Pearls - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000479","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209991860283,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000486","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Basic Black with Pearls - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000486","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209992155195,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000493","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Basic Black with Pearls - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000493","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_418d6e84-a5c1-40d9-a75c-74c8d19f0881.jpg?v=1648388244"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_418d6e84-a5c1-40d9-a75c-74c8d19f0881.jpg?v=1648388244","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21823521390651,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_418d6e84-a5c1-40d9-a75c-74c8d19f0881.jpg?v=1648388244"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_418d6e84-a5c1-40d9-a75c-74c8d19f0881.jpg?v=1648388244","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence together with torturous memories of guilt and loss as a Jewish immigrant in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShirley Kaszenbowski, née Silverberg, is a middle-aged, middle-class woman in a Holt Renfrew tweed coat, a basic black dress, and a strand of real pearls. She may seem ordinary enough, pricing silk scarves at Eaton’s or idling in hotel coffee shops, but in fact she is searching for her lover. He is an elusive figure, a man connected with “The Agency,” a powerful technocrat who may or may not have suggested a rendezvous based on a secret code in the \u003cem\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer search takes her to the world of her past as a Jewish immigrant in the Spadina-Dundas area of Toronto. She finds the bakeries and rooming houses of her youth still haunted by survivors of postwar Europe and by her own memories of guilt and loss, while the consolations of art, opera, and pornography offer only echoes of her own illusions and desires. Her strange, wryly funny odyssey ends in a dramatic confrontation scene with her husband and “the other woman,” as she trades in her basic black for another chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e, Weinzweig displays her gift for creating sympathetic characters in a slightly surreal, but always recognizable world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887848384","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487002961","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770899766","BASICMainSubject":"FIC046000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Jewish","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHELEN WEINZWEIG\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Toronto Book Award. Her short story collection, \u003cem\u003eA View from the Roof\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Helen Weinzweig died in Toronto in 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Jewish","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubject_0":"FIC046000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC019000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHELEN WEINZWEIG\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Toronto Book Award. Her short story collection, \u003cem\u003eA View from the Roof\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Helen Weinzweig died in Toronto in 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Weinzweig, Helen","Description":"\u003cp\u003eA lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence together with torturous memories of guilt and loss as a Jewish immigrant in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShirley Kaszenbowski, née Silverberg, is a middle-aged, middle-class woman in a Holt Renfrew tweed coat, a basic black dress, and a strand of real pearls. She may seem ordinary enough, pricing silk scarves at Eaton’s or idling in hotel coffee shops, but in fact she is searching for her lover. He is an elusive figure, a man connected with “The Agency,” a powerful technocrat who may or may not have suggested a rendezvous based on a secret code in the \u003cem\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer search takes her to the world of her past as a Jewish immigrant in the Spadina-Dundas area of Toronto. She finds the bakeries and rooming houses of her youth still haunted by survivors of postwar Europe and by her own memories of guilt and loss, while the consolations of art, opera, and pornography offer only echoes of her own illusions and desires. Her strange, wryly funny odyssey ends in a dramatic confrontation scene with her husband and “the other woman,” as she trades in her basic black for another chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e, Weinzweig displays her gift for creating sympathetic characters in a slightly surreal, but always recognizable world.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487000479","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487000479\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"A List","MetaKeywords":"Toronto Book Award; Feminist; Classic; Classic Books; Classic Reads; Jewish; Immigrants; Toronto; Set in Toronto; Book Club; CanLit; Canadian Fiction; 1980s; Feminist Writers; Women's Studies; Lost Classics; Surreal Literature;Surreal Books; Experimental Fiction","NumberOfPages":"160","OtherText_Review_0":"I must concede that Basic Black with Pearls, at least, is so good as to have been well worth the exhilarating wait","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Emily M. Keeler","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_1":"Thirty-five years after its initial publication, and a hundred years since Weinzweig’s birth, Basic Black with Pearls is getting an admirable posthumous reissue via House of Anansi’s A-List series, asserting its relevance decades after it won the 1981 Toronto Book Award.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Stacey May Fowles","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"a funny and smart feminist classic that begs for rediscovery.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Kerry Clare","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"49th Shelf","OtherText_Review_3":"Basic Black with Pearls packs a punch.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"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.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2015-07-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"A List","ShortDescription":"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.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Basic Black with Pearls
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.
Quick View
{"id":6815466127419,"title":"Victim Without a Face","handle":"victim-without-a-face","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book in the Fabian Risk series, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVictim Without a Face\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCriminal investigator Fabian Risk has left Stockholm with his wife, Sonja, and their two children to start fresh in his hometown of Helsingborg. He has planned a six-week vacation before he starts a new job at the Homicide Department. But after only a few hours in their new home, he is asked to investigate a brutal murder. The body of Jörgen Pålsson, one of Risk’s former classmates, has been found with both hands missing. Soon the bodies of more old classmates are found, and Risk finds himself in a race against time: Can they find the murderer before the entire class is killed?\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:45:23-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:32:11-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Ahnhem Stefan","Fabian Risk","pub date: 2015-11-01","Spiderline","Thrillers \u0026 Mystery","Translated by Willson-Broyles Rachel"],"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":40209980686395,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899131","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Victim Without a Face - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":699,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899131","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209981243451,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899148","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Victim Without a Face - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899148","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209981308987,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899155","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Victim Without a Face - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899155","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e7ba1806-5617-48e8-b18d-f54eea4594b0.jpg?v=1678595960"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e7ba1806-5617-48e8-b18d-f54eea4594b0.jpg?v=1678595960","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324476604475,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e7ba1806-5617-48e8-b18d-f54eea4594b0.jpg?v=1678595960"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e7ba1806-5617-48e8-b18d-f54eea4594b0.jpg?v=1678595960","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book in the Fabian Risk series, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVictim Without a Face\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCriminal investigator Fabian Risk has left Stockholm with his wife, Sonja, and their two children to start fresh in his hometown of Helsingborg. He has planned a six-week vacation before he starts a new job at the Homicide Department. But after only a few hours in their new home, he is asked to investigate a brutal murder. The body of Jörgen Pålsson, one of Risk’s former classmates, has been found with both hands missing. Soon the bodies of more old classmates are found, and Risk finds himself in a race against time: Can they find the murderer before the entire class is killed?\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487000233","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487003234","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487003869","BASICMainSubject":"FIC031010","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Thrillers \/ Crime","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEFAN AHNHEM\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling author of the Fabian Risk series. He is an established screenwriter for both TV and film and has worked on a variety of projects, including adaptations of Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series. He also serves on the board of the Swedish Writers Guild. He lives in Stockholm.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Thrillers \/ Crime","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Mystery \u0026amp; Detective \/ International Crime \u0026amp; Mystery","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Crime","BISACSubject_0":"FIC031010","BISACSubject_1":"FIC022080","BISACSubject_2":"FIC050000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEFAN AHNHEM\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling author of the Fabian Risk series. He is an established screenwriter for both TV and film and has worked on a variety of projects, including adaptations of Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series. He also serves on the board of the Swedish Writers Guild. He lives in Stockholm.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRACHEL WILLSON-BROYLES\u003c\/strong\u003e is an American translator specializing in literature. She has a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and recently translated \u003cem\u003eThe Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden\u003c\/em\u003e by Jonas Jonasson, \u003cem\u003eRoom No. 10\u003c\/em\u003e by Åke Edwardson, and \u003cem\u003eVictim Without a Face\u003c\/em\u003e by Stefan Ahnhem. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Ahnhem, Stefan","Contributor_1":"Willson-Broyles, Rachel","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book in the Fabian Risk series, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVictim Without a Face\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCriminal investigator Fabian Risk has left Stockholm with his wife, Sonja, and their two children to start fresh in his hometown of Helsingborg. He has planned a six-week vacation before he starts a new job at the Homicide Department. But after only a few hours in their new home, he is asked to investigate a brutal murder. The body of Jörgen Pålsson, one of Risk’s former classmates, has been found with both hands missing. Soon the bodies of more old classmates are found, and Risk finds himself in a race against time: Can they find the murderer before the entire class is killed?\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770899131","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770899131\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","guide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770899131\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=guide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Spiderline","MetaKeywords":"translation; Sweden; page turner; fast paced; Ninth Grave; Eighteen Below; investigation; europe; Scott Thornley; Law enforcement; Cops; Action; Assassination; Adventure; Technology; Stieg Larsson; mutilation; grisly; serial killer; intricate plot; trilogy; first in a series; Motive X; X Ways to Die; Stranger Upstairs; Couple Next Door; Riley Sager; James Patterson; Michael Connelly; mind hunter; broadchurch; Killing; thriller; mystery; fathers day; Grandfather; Dad","NumberOfPages":"600","OtherText_Review_0":"It is not often a crime novel grasps you from the very first page and refuses to let you go.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Michael Hjort and Hans Rosenfeldt, authors of the Sebastian Bergman thrillers","OtherText_Review_1":"An evil story full of surprise and suspense, and taking place in the shadows of the past. I read it in one sitting.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Åke Edwarson, author of Room No. 10","OtherText_Review_2":"A sharp and adrenaline packed thriller! For 600 pages the reader is being held in an almost uncanny grip by this crime novel that doesn’t shy away from the sensational. The author, with a background of 20 years as a script writer, is an excellent storyteller and has all the qualifications needed to be the next great Swedish thriller king.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Crimetime Specsavers Award Jury","OtherText_Review_3":"More gripping than Nesbo, blacker than Larsson and more bleakly human than Mankell . . . this is high-octane Scandinavian crime that knows where all the bodies are buried.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Tony Parsons, author of The Murder Bag","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeName_0":"Crimetime Specsavers Award","PrizeName_1":"Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards: The RTÉ Radio 1’s The Ryan Tubridy Show List","PrizeName_2":"Lubimyczytac’s Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2015","PrizeYear_1":"2016","PrizeYear_2":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2015-11-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"Fabian Risk","ShortDescription":"The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Victim Without a Face
The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.
Quick View
{"id":6815266865211,"title":"Little Dogs","handle":"little-dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty years after the publication of his debut, \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e brings together selections from Michael Crummey’s first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection, Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know him to be, but also as one of our great poets of connection. Whether reporting from a solitary room or a shared bed, recalling the barbed delirium of adolescence, the subtler negotiations of mature love, or the generational echoes between fathers and sons, these poems are deeply engaged in the business of living with others. Of living with the absence of those who have shaped and sometimes scarred us. Unafraid of confronting the darker corners of desire or of digging into the past to make sense of the present, Crummey has already given us a tremendous body of work. \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:56-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:48:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Crummey Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2016-04-09"],"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":40209202937915,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000967","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Little Dogs - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":349,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000967","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_995c9b1d-a64a-4a21-bee6-6c32fe35da28.jpg?v=1655696083"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_995c9b1d-a64a-4a21-bee6-6c32fe35da28.jpg?v=1655696083","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22245143838779,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_995c9b1d-a64a-4a21-bee6-6c32fe35da28.jpg?v=1655696083"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_995c9b1d-a64a-4a21-bee6-6c32fe35da28.jpg?v=1655696083","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty years after the publication of his debut, \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e brings together selections from Michael Crummey’s first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection, Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know him to be, but also as one of our great poets of connection. Whether reporting from a solitary room or a shared bed, recalling the barbed delirium of adolescence, the subtler negotiations of mature love, or the generational echoes between fathers and sons, these poems are deeply engaged in the business of living with others. Of living with the absence of those who have shaped and sometimes scarred us. Unafraid of confronting the darker corners of desire or of digging into the past to make sense of the present, Crummey has already given us a tremendous body of work. \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487001711","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487006075","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487008376","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eMICHAEL CRUMMEY\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of twelve books of poetry and fiction. He was the inaugural winner of the $50,000 Writers’ Trust Fellowship in recognition of “exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise” in his work to date. His most recent novel,\u003cem \u003e The Innocents\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. \u003cem \u003eLittle Dogs: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in 2017. He lives in St. John’s, where he is starting to feel his age.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eMICHAEL CRUMMEY\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of twelve books of poetry and fiction. He was the inaugural winner of the $50,000 Writers’ Trust Fellowship in recognition of “exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise” in his work to date. His most recent novel,\u003cem \u003e The Innocents\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. \u003cem \u003eLittle Dogs: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in 2017. He lives in St. John’s, where he is starting to feel his age.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Crummey, Michael (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty years after the publication of his debut, \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e brings together selections from Michael Crummey’s first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection, Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know him to be, but also as one of our great poets of connection. Whether reporting from a solitary room or a shared bed, recalling the barbed delirium of adolescence, the subtler negotiations of mature love, or the generational echoes between fathers and sons, these poems are deeply engaged in the business of living with others. Of living with the absence of those who have shaped and sometimes scarred us. Unafraid of confronting the darker corners of desire or of digging into the past to make sense of the present, Crummey has already given us a tremendous body of work. \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487000967","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487000967\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"288","OtherText_Review_0":"…this is poetry of pure survival.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Overcast","OtherText_Review_1":"Whether watching his mother keep vigil at his father’s deathbed, or chiding himself for looking through an old photo album of his wife’s first marriage and feeling like a cheap voyeur, this poet brings an exhilarating self-critical eye to poems worth a determined stroll through a gale to a bookstore.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Arc Poetry Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.","Subtitle":"New and Selected Poems","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Little Dogs
Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.
Quick View
{"id":6815266635835,"title":"Fever at Dawn","handle":"fever-at-dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five-year-old Holocaust survivor Miklós is being shipped from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Gotland, Sweden, to receive treatment at the Larbro Hospital. Here he is sentenced to death again: he is diagnosed with tuberculosis and his doctors inform him that he has six months to live. But Miklós decides to wage war on his own fate: he writes 117 letters to 117 Hungarian girls, all of whom are being treated in the Swedish camps, with the aim of eventually choosing a wife from among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred kilometres away, in another Swedish rehabilitation camp, nineteen-year-old Lili receives Miklós’s letter. Since she is bedridden for three weeks due to a serious kidney problem, out of boredom — and curiosity — she decides to write back.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe slightly formal exchange of letters becomes increasingly intimate. When the two finally manage to meet, they fall in love and are determined to marry, despite the odds that are against them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBased on the original letters written by Miklós and Lili (ninety-six altogether), \u003cem\u003eFever at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e is a tale of passion, striving, and betrayal; true and false friendships; doubt and faith; and the redeeming power of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:54-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:48:12-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Gárdos Péter","pub date: 2016-04-30","Translated by Szász Elizabeth"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":2500,"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":40209202085947,"title":"hardcover jacket","option1":"hardcover jacket","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001056","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Fever at Dawn - hardcover jacket","public_title":"hardcover jacket","options":["hardcover jacket"],"price":2500,"weight":499,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001056","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209268768827,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001063","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Fever at Dawn - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001063","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209269260347,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001070","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Fever at Dawn - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001070","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ed558911-5fdf-4889-a49c-547cab65e7c0.jpg?v=1648388216"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ed558911-5fdf-4889-a49c-547cab65e7c0.jpg?v=1648388216","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21823520407611,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.662,"height":2550,"width":1688,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ed558911-5fdf-4889-a49c-547cab65e7c0.jpg?v=1648388216"},"aspect_ratio":0.662,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ed558911-5fdf-4889-a49c-547cab65e7c0.jpg?v=1648388216","width":1688}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five-year-old Holocaust survivor Miklós is being shipped from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Gotland, Sweden, to receive treatment at the Larbro Hospital. Here he is sentenced to death again: he is diagnosed with tuberculosis and his doctors inform him that he has six months to live. But Miklós decides to wage war on his own fate: he writes 117 letters to 117 Hungarian girls, all of whom are being treated in the Swedish camps, with the aim of eventually choosing a wife from among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred kilometres away, in another Swedish rehabilitation camp, nineteen-year-old Lili receives Miklós’s letter. Since she is bedridden for three weeks due to a serious kidney problem, out of boredom — and curiosity — she decides to write back.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe slightly formal exchange of letters becomes increasingly intimate. When the two finally manage to meet, they fall in love and are determined to marry, despite the odds that are against them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBased on the original letters written by Miklós and Lili (ninety-six altogether), \u003cem\u003eFever at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e is a tale of passion, striving, and betrayal; true and false friendships; doubt and faith; and the redeeming power of love.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487000578","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770894747","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770898554","BASICMainSubject":"FIC019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Literary","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePÉTER GÁRDOS\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Budapest in 1948. He is a multiple-award-winning film and theatre director. As a director he has received more than twenty international awards at major film festivals, among them the Jury’s Special Award at the Montreal Film Festival and the Golden Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival. Based on the true story of his parents, \u003cem\u003eFever at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e is his first novel. \u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Jewish","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Historical \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"FIC019000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC046000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC014000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePÉTER GÁRDOS\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Budapest in 1948. He is a multiple-award-winning film and theatre director. As a director he has received more than twenty international awards at major film festivals, among them the Jury’s Special Award at the Montreal Film Festival and the Golden Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival. Based on the true story of his parents, \u003cem\u003eFever at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e is his first novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eELIZABETH SZÁSZ\u003c\/strong\u003e is a freelance translator living in Budapest.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Gárdos, Péter","Contributor_1":"Szász, Elizabeth","Description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five-year-old Holocaust survivor Miklós is being shipped from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Gotland, Sweden, to receive treatment at the Larbro Hospital. Here he is sentenced to death again: he is diagnosed with tuberculosis and his doctors inform him that he has six months to live. But Miklós decides to wage war on his own fate: he writes 117 letters to 117 Hungarian girls, all of whom are being treated in the Swedish camps, with the aim of eventually choosing a wife from among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred kilometres away, in another Swedish rehabilitation camp, nineteen-year-old Lili receives Miklós’s letter. Since she is bedridden for three weeks due to a serious kidney problem, out of boredom — and curiosity — she decides to write back.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe slightly formal exchange of letters becomes increasingly intimate. When the two finally manage to meet, they fall in love and are determined to marry, despite the odds that are against them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBased on the original letters written by Miklós and Lili (ninety-six altogether), \u003cem\u003eFever at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e is a tale of passion, striving, and betrayal; true and false friendships; doubt and faith; and the redeeming power of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487001056","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001056\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","guide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001056\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=guide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"historical fiction; romance; ww2; wwII; world war two; world war II; translation; translated; epistolary; holocaust; eastern europe; war; post wwii; hungary; hungarian; historical; falling in love; eastern european; letters; writing letters; sick; tuberculosis; based on a true story; based on real life; wartime; sickness; health; looking for love","NumberOfPages":"304","OtherText_Accolades_0":"A magnificent novel, tonally flawless, its humour defiant in the face of vast tragedy.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Author of Gilgamesh, The Good Parents, and The Golden Age","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Fever at Dawn belongs to the canon of extraordinary true stories about love and war and the power of letters. Dramatic, compassionate, and deeply moving, this unforgettable story reminds us that the Holocaust is not only history, it’s a warning.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Author of Prayer for the Stolen and Widow Basquiat: A Love Story","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Fever at Dawn is a riveting and high-spirited journey from the brink of death toward life, a novel that asserts the power of love in a world newly devastated by unspeakable hate. 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. This is a powerful story for all of us, for today.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Dr. Edith Eva Eger, Clinical Psychologist, Auschwitz Survivor, and author of The Choice","OtherText_Accolades_4":"Books don’t make me cry. Fever At Dawn did. Drawing you in with pathos and playful wit,it squeezes the heart with sorrow and leaves it expanded with joy and love.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Gabor Maté M.D., author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction","OtherText_Accolades_5":"The impossibly moving story of two damaged youths who forge from their amour fou a love that will light the decades ahead. 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.
Quick View
{"id":6815263490107,"title":"Snow Summer","handle":"snow-summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo prevent the world from sinking into eternal winter, Wyn must embrace her hidden power.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMassive climate change has caused a winter that will not thaw, and it seems that the forces of nature have turned on humanity itself. But in the sleepy British village of Pateley, one special girl may hold the key to the earth’s survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWyn, an orphan, has always known that she is different. Unable to feel the biting cold of wind and snow of Pateley’s endless winter, she does what she can to blend in. But when mysterious figures start to appear in the village, insisting that she may have the power to restore order to the natural world, Wyn must look deep inside herself to face the secrets of her past that she has kept hidden even from herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom debut author Kit Peel, \u003cem\u003eSnow Summer\u003c\/em\u003e is an immersive fantasy novel that expertly conveys the beauty of the natural world and its conflict with human development. A powerful allegory for climate change and global warming, it is nevertheless a timeless story, reminiscent of classics of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDescribe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:41-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:45:16-04:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":["age range 12 - 0","By (author) Peel Kit","CC Literature - Grade 6","CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3","Childrens Accessible ebooks","Environment and Climate Change","Groundwood Books","Guided Reading Level X","Lexile measure 850L","Middle Grade","pub date: 2016-10-01"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"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":40209187864635,"title":"hardcover jacket","option1":"hardcover jacket","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781554983575","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Snow Summer - hardcover jacket","public_title":"hardcover jacket","options":["hardcover jacket"],"price":1695,"weight":380,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781554983575","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209189273659,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781554983582","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Snow Summer - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781554983582","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209189601339,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781554983599","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Snow Summer - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781554983599","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9784c558-e918-4f5b-8f52-4b1199e27acc.jpg?v=1678596263"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9784c558-e918-4f5b-8f52-4b1199e27acc.jpg?v=1678596263","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324484042811,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"width":1725,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9784c558-e918-4f5b-8f52-4b1199e27acc.jpg?v=1678596263"},"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9784c558-e918-4f5b-8f52-4b1199e27acc.jpg?v=1678596263","width":1725}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo prevent the world from sinking into eternal winter, Wyn must embrace her hidden power.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMassive climate change has caused a winter that will not thaw, and it seems that the forces of nature have turned on humanity itself. But in the sleepy British village of Pateley, one special girl may hold the key to the earth’s survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWyn, an orphan, has always known that she is different. Unable to feel the biting cold of wind and snow of Pateley’s endless winter, she does what she can to blend in. But when mysterious figures start to appear in the village, insisting that she may have the power to restore order to the natural world, Wyn must look deep inside herself to face the secrets of her past that she has kept hidden even from herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom debut author Kit Peel, \u003cem\u003eSnow Summer\u003c\/em\u003e is an immersive fantasy novel that expertly conveys the beauty of the natural world and its conflict with human development. A powerful allegory for climate change and global warming, it is nevertheless a timeless story, reminiscent of classics of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDescribe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781554981595","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781773064185","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781773064871","AudienceRangePrecision_1_0":"03","AudienceRangePrecision_1_1":"03","AudienceRangeQualifier_0":"11","AudienceRangeQualifier_1":"17","AudienceRangeValue_1_0":"7","AudienceRangeValue_1_1":"12","BASICMainSubject":"YAF019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"YOUNG ADULT FICTION \/ Fantasy \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003eKit Peel is a garden designer and beekeeper and former foreign news journalist and editor. He wrote the joint-winning libretto for the 2003 Genesis Opera prize. \u003cem\u003eSnow Summer\u003c\/em\u003e is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"YOUNG ADULT FICTION \/ Fantasy \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"YAF019000","CommonCore":"CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3","ComplexityCode_0":"850L","ComplexityCode_1":"X","ComplexitySchemeIdentifier_0":"06","ComplexitySchemeIdentifier_1":"09","ComplexitySchemeIdName_0":"Lexile measure","ComplexitySchemeIdName_1":"Guided Reading Level","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003eKit Peel is a garden designer and beekeeper and former foreign news journalist and editor. He wrote the joint-winning libretto for the 2003 Genesis Opera prize. \u003cem\u003eSnow Summer\u003c\/em\u003e is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Peel, Kit","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo prevent the world from sinking into eternal winter, Wyn must embrace her hidden power.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMassive climate change has caused a winter that will not thaw, and it seems that the forces of nature have turned on humanity itself. But in the sleepy British village of Pateley, one special girl may hold the key to the earth’s survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWyn, an orphan, has always known that she is different. Unable to feel the biting cold of wind and snow of Pateley’s endless winter, she does what she can to blend in. But when mysterious figures start to appear in the village, insisting that she may have the power to restore order to the natural world, Wyn must look deep inside herself to face the secrets of her past that she has kept hidden even from herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom debut author Kit Peel, \u003cem\u003eSnow Summer\u003c\/em\u003e is an immersive fantasy novel that expertly conveys the beauty of the natural world and its conflict with human development. A powerful allegory for climate change and global warming, it is nevertheless a timeless story, reminiscent of classics of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDescribe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781554983575","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781554983575\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","MetaKeywords":"nature and the natural world; environment and green issues; climate change; global warming; fantasy; female protagonist; speculative; dystopian and utopian fiction; pagan; magic; orphan; courage; respect for environment; perseverance; third person narration; figurative language; imagery; connecting; determining importance; connecting; Common Core aligned; CC Literature Key Ideas and Details; CC Literature Craft and Structure; grade 6; Kirkus starred review; fantasy; fiction","NumberOfPages":"224","OtherText_Review_0":"Thoroughly realized characters, a story that combines high fantasy with the pagan world of nature spirits, settings that amplify and uphold the natural-world underpinnings of the plot, and plenty of tension characterize this refreshing read. A must.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"A thought-provoking thrill of a debut novel…Packaged in rich, fantastical narrative with extraordinary characters, this book is sure to please a wide range of readers.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"VOYA Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"To prevent the world from sinking into eternal winter, Wyn must embrace her hidden power.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2016-10-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"To prevent the world from sinking into eternal winter, Wyn must embrace her hidden power.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 12
and up
/ grades 7
and up
Snow Summer
To prevent the world from sinking into eternal winter, Wyn must embrace her hidden power.
Quick View
{"id":6814272290875,"title":"A Plea for Constant Motion","handle":"a-plea-for-constant-motion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of tenderness and humour, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful examination of the innate desire in everyone to change their lives and strive for something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo couples share a disastrous dinner after their children are killed in a botched kidnapping overseas. A teacher with a passion for cartography orchestrates a bizarre apology after intentionally hitting a student. Desperate to be friends, a man ignores his neighbour’s strange behaviour to the peril of himself and others. A young girl babysits for a family friend, dimly aware that her presence is required for more than just childcare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDexterously divided into two parts and a surreal intermission, the characters in these stories find themselves confronted by situations that leave them either struggling to escape or firmly rooted in place. Paul Carlucci’s formidable work is by turns familiar and disquieting, sober and surreal, a stark and carefully crafted examination of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:48-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:30:46-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Carlucci Paul","pub date: 2017-01-21"],"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":40206705295419,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000110","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Plea for Constant Motion - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":320,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000110","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40207010398267,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000127","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Plea for Constant Motion - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000127","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40207010758715,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000134","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Plea for Constant Motion - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000134","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7b2ed0f4-bac7-442b-bca4-b00b86ff4243.jpg?v=1648387628"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7b2ed0f4-bac7-442b-bca4-b00b86ff4243.jpg?v=1648387628","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21823496978491,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7b2ed0f4-bac7-442b-bca4-b00b86ff4243.jpg?v=1648387628"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7b2ed0f4-bac7-442b-bca4-b00b86ff4243.jpg?v=1648387628","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of tenderness and humour, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful examination of the innate desire in everyone to change their lives and strive for something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo couples share a disastrous dinner after their children are killed in a botched kidnapping overseas. A teacher with a passion for cartography orchestrates a bizarre apology after intentionally hitting a student. Desperate to be friends, a man ignores his neighbour’s strange behaviour to the peril of himself and others. A young girl babysits for a family friend, dimly aware that her presence is required for more than just childcare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDexterously divided into two parts and a surreal intermission, the characters in these stories find themselves confronted by situations that leave them either struggling to escape or firmly rooted in place. Paul Carlucci’s formidable work is by turns familiar and disquieting, sober and surreal, a stark and carefully crafted examination of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487000684","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487002305","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781487006150","BASICMainSubject":"FIC029000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Short Stories","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePAUL CARLUCCI\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Life of Fission\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His stories have been widely published, appearing in \u003cem\u003eThe Puritan\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLittle Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDescant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCarousel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEVENT\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRiddle Fence\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. A recovering transient, he now lives in Ottawa after almost ten years of roaming across Canada and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Short Stories (single author)","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubject_0":"FIC029000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC019000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePAUL CARLUCCI\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Life of Fission\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His stories have been widely published, appearing in \u003cem\u003eThe Puritan\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLittle Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDescant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCarousel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEVENT\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRiddle Fence\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. A recovering transient, he now lives in Ottawa after almost ten years of roaming across Canada and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Carlucci, Paul","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of tenderness and humour, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful examination of the innate desire in everyone to change their lives and strive for something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo couples share a disastrous dinner after their children are killed in a botched kidnapping overseas. A teacher with a passion for cartography orchestrates a bizarre apology after intentionally hitting a student. Desperate to be friends, a man ignores his neighbour’s strange behaviour to the peril of himself and others. A young girl babysits for a family friend, dimly aware that her presence is required for more than just childcare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDexterously divided into two parts and a surreal intermission, the characters in these stories find themselves confronted by situations that leave them either struggling to escape or firmly rooted in place. Paul Carlucci’s formidable work is by turns familiar and disquieting, sober and surreal, a stark and carefully crafted examination of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487000110","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487000110\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Astoria","MetaKeywords":"ambition; dark stories; psychological; chuck palahniuk; africa; british columbia; post apocalyptic; dystopian; murder; sex; assault; violence; ransom; terrorism; black mirror; family; canlit; creative writing; intermission; guts; haunted; choke; survivor; the secret life of fission; wallflowers eliza robertson; something for everyone; lisa moore; suspense; horror; indie","NumberOfPages":"304","OtherText_Accolades_0":"Paul Carlucci’s A Plea for Constant Motion is a visceral, vibrant, take-no-prisoners collection. Its characters keep talking in your head even after you put the stories down, coming back when you least expect it. Bright like nightmares, yet gauzy like half-remembered dreams — a unique touch.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Russell Wangersky, author of The Path of Most Resistance","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Paul Carlucci’s collection thrums with violence. The damaged, deranged, and dangerous are flayed open on the page by vivid, razor-sharp prose. These stories, steeped in darkness, disturb and captivate in equal measure.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Laura Trunkey, author of Double Dutch","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Paul Carlucci has a gift for the dark and the heartbreaking. In this myriad collection of stories, we meet people who have been confronted with all manner of quiet disasters. It’s a testament to the careful brilliance of Carlucci’s prose that this disaster exists hand-in-hand with redemption; these are tales of unlikely triumph, wistfully poignant and played out with a master hand.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Amanda Leduc, author of The Miracles of Ordinary Men","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Whether Paul Carlucci’s characters are dealing with class conflict, prejudice, or incomprehensible cruelty, the precision and dark, vivid humour of his stories deliver new angles on literary and societal conventions, demonstrating that the sidelines are often where the real emotional action is.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Naben Ruthnum, Journey Prize-winning author and National Post columnist","OtherText_Review_0":"The manipulation of tone within and across stories in A Plea for Constant Motion is enhanced by an overall structure that is carefully and deliberately constructed . . . [there is] much to appreciate in this tough and challenging collection.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"It doesn’t make for easy reading, but A Plea for Constant Motion has an air of urgency to it, a sense of relevance which is at once odd for a collection of short stories and disturbing in and of itself. Carlucci . . . writes beautifully of ugliness, immersing the reader in the minds and hearts of characters most of us would like to avoid, or, more critically, would prefer to believe didn’t exist. It’s a perfect collection for a world which confronts us with increasing violence and ugliness every day.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"Completely absorbing (in a guided-tour-through-hell kind of way), the stories sketch poor choices and malfunctioning moral compasses with a festering or atrophied backdrop of corruption, brutality, abuse and death. . . a rewarding collection.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_3":"A powerful collection of stories that draw you into their reality.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Ottawa Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-01-21","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
A Plea for Constant Motion
Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.
Quick View
{"id":6811320909883,"title":"The Family Clause","handle":"the-family-clause","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. Can this clause be negotiated, or will it chain the family to its past forever?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of quickly changing perspectives, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s \u003ci\u003eThe Family Clause\u003c\/i\u003e intimately portrays a chaotic and perfectly normal family, one deeply wounded by the death of a child and the disappearance of a father.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T17:17:01-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T12:51:13-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Khemiri Jonas Hassen","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2020-06-09","Translated by Menzies Alice"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"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":40191044780091,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006686","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Family Clause - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":349,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006686","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191135776827,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006693","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Family Clause - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006693","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191135809595,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006709","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Family Clause - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006709","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3240ab05-de47-4c05-b7bd-421bdd23fba3.jpg?v=1648382787"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3240ab05-de47-4c05-b7bd-421bdd23fba3.jpg?v=1648382787","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"A polaroid picture shows a blurry silhouette covered by a haze of red, yellow, green, purple, and blue. The title is written as the polaroid’s caption. Behind the polaroid the background shows a black sky with grey clouds. Text: The Family Clause. A Novel. Jonas Hassen Khemiri. “I was drawn into this fascinating story right from the beginning.” – Herman Koch, author of The Dinner.","id":21823343755323,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3240ab05-de47-4c05-b7bd-421bdd23fba3.jpg?v=1648382787"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3240ab05-de47-4c05-b7bd-421bdd23fba3.jpg?v=1648382787","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\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. Can this clause be negotiated, or will it chain the family to its past forever?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of quickly changing perspectives, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s \u003ci\u003eThe Family Clause\u003c\/i\u003e intimately portrays a chaotic and perfectly normal family, one deeply wounded by the death of a child and the disappearance of a father.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487001889","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487002961","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770894129","BASICMainSubject":"FIC000000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of five novels, six plays, and a collection of essays, plays, and short stories. Among his many honours are the August Prize, the highest award for Swedish literature; the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize; the Borås Tidning Award for Best Debut Novel; and an Obie Award. His novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and his six plays have been performed by more than one hundred companies around the world. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Family Life \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubject_0":"FIC000000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC045000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC019000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of five novels, six plays, and a collection of essays, plays, and short stories. Among his many honours are the August Prize, the highest award for Swedish literature; the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize; the Borås Tidning Award for Best Debut Novel; and an Obie Award. His novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and his six plays have been performed by more than one hundred companies around the world. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALICE MENZIES\u003c\/strong\u003e is a freelance translator based in London. 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. Can this clause be negotiated, or will it chain the family to its past forever?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of quickly changing perspectives, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s \u003ci\u003eThe Family Clause\u003c\/i\u003e intimately portrays a chaotic and perfectly normal family, one deeply wounded by the death of a child and the disappearance of a father.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006686","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487006686\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"Father's Day Books; intergenerational; This is Where I Leave You; Scandinavian authors; relationships; books with multiple narrators; parenthood; sandwich generation; Commonwealth; world literature; Succession; Montecore; Everything I don't remember; Jonathan Tropper; lierary fiction; translation; gifts for Dad","NumberOfPages":"320","OtherText_Accolades_0":"I was drawn into The Family Clause right from the beginning and couldn't let it go for days after I had put it down. 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.
Quick View
{"id":6811316518971,"title":"Violet Shrink - Braille Edition","handle":"violet-shrink-braille-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this powerful story from Christine Baldacchino, author of \u003cem\u003eMorris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress\u003c\/em\u003e, a young girl navigates social anxiety at family gatherings and works with her father to find a solution. This Braille edition consists of the original book with Braille overlays added by hand. Each edition is made on demand, and Groundwood Books is selling this edition at cost.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eViolet Shrink doesn’t like parties. Or bashes, or gatherings. Lots of people and lots of noise make Violet’s tummy ache and her hands sweat. She would much rather spend time on her own, watching the birds in her backyard, reading comics or listening to music through her purple headphones. The problem is that the whole Shrink family loves parties with loud music and games and dancing. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Cousin Char’s birthday party, Violet hides under a table and imagines she is a shark gliding effortlessly through the water, looking for food. And at Auntie Marlene and Uncle Leli’s anniversary bash, Violet sits alone at the top of the stairs, imagining she is a slithering snake way up in the branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Violet learns that the Shrink family reunion is fast approaching, she musters up the courage to have a talk with her dad.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e In this thoughtful story about understanding and acceptance, Violet’s natural introversion and feelings of social anxiety are normalized when she and her father reach a solution together. Christine Baldacchino’s warm text demonstrates the role imagination often plays for children dealing with anxiety, and the power of a child expressing their feelings to a parent who is there to listen. Carmen Mok’s charming illustrations perfectly capture Violet’s emotions and the vibrancy of her imagination. A valuable contribution to books addressing mental health.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis Braille edition consists of the original book with Braille overlays added by hand. Each edition is made on demand, and Groundwood Books is selling this edition at cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRetell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7\u003cbr\u003e\r\nUse illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDescribe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T17:16:56-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T12:43:30-04:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":["age range 3 - 7","By (author) Baldacchino Christine","CC Literature - Grade 4","CC Literature - Grade 6","CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2","CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7","CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3","Childrens Starred Reviews","Groundwood Books","Illustrated by Mok Carmen","Mental Health","Picture Books","pub date: 2020-03-01","Stories of Resilience"],"price":6000,"price_min":6000,"price_max":6000,"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":40191032492091,"title":"braille","option1":"braille","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781773064932","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Violet Shrink - Braille Edition - braille","public_title":"braille","options":["braille"],"price":6000,"weight":422,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781773064932","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3ef4d35f-ed73-490c-93e2-c1e31fa11e7f.jpg?v=1647887643","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_32a62708-44d4-4323-8cad-8b4dea4eec15.jpg?v=1647887656","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5553a94d-ee0f-45ef-988d-402663d2f9e2.jpg?v=1647887669","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bee9f5c7-1ee5-4519-9c2f-d2ddfcba9425.jpg?v=1647887681"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3ef4d35f-ed73-490c-93e2-c1e31fa11e7f.jpg?v=1647887643","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"An open door shows the view into a living room with a bookshelf, a sitting chair, and a side table with cookies and milk on it. A girl with light skin tone and brown hair looks around the open door from inside the living room. She wears purple glasses, purple headphones, and a yellow-striped sweater. She carries a book with a yellow flower between the pages as a bookmark. When the title has a letter “I” it is dotted with this yellow flower. Text: Violet Shrink. Christine Baldacchino. Pictures by Carmen Mok.","id":21748995817531,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.843,"height":1898,"width":1600,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3ef4d35f-ed73-490c-93e2-c1e31fa11e7f.jpg?v=1647887643"},"aspect_ratio":0.843,"height":1898,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3ef4d35f-ed73-490c-93e2-c1e31fa11e7f.jpg?v=1647887643","width":1600},{"alt":null,"id":21748996866107,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.84,"height":500,"width":420,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_32a62708-44d4-4323-8cad-8b4dea4eec15.jpg?v=1647887656"},"aspect_ratio":0.84,"height":500,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_32a62708-44d4-4323-8cad-8b4dea4eec15.jpg?v=1647887656","width":420},{"alt":null,"id":21748997161019,"position":3,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.95,"height":500,"width":475,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5553a94d-ee0f-45ef-988d-402663d2f9e2.jpg?v=1647887669"},"aspect_ratio":0.95,"height":500,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5553a94d-ee0f-45ef-988d-402663d2f9e2.jpg?v=1647887669","width":475},{"alt":null,"id":21748997554235,"position":4,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.778,"height":500,"width":389,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bee9f5c7-1ee5-4519-9c2f-d2ddfcba9425.jpg?v=1647887681"},"aspect_ratio":0.778,"height":500,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bee9f5c7-1ee5-4519-9c2f-d2ddfcba9425.jpg?v=1647887681","width":389}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this powerful story from Christine Baldacchino, author of \u003cem\u003eMorris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress\u003c\/em\u003e, a young girl navigates social anxiety at family gatherings and works with her father to find a solution. This Braille edition consists of the original book with Braille overlays added by hand. Each edition is made on demand, and Groundwood Books is selling this edition at cost.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eViolet Shrink doesn’t like parties. Or bashes, or gatherings. Lots of people and lots of noise make Violet’s tummy ache and her hands sweat. She would much rather spend time on her own, watching the birds in her backyard, reading comics or listening to music through her purple headphones. The problem is that the whole Shrink family loves parties with loud music and games and dancing. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Cousin Char’s birthday party, Violet hides under a table and imagines she is a shark gliding effortlessly through the water, looking for food. And at Auntie Marlene and Uncle Leli’s anniversary bash, Violet sits alone at the top of the stairs, imagining she is a slithering snake way up in the branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Violet learns that the Shrink family reunion is fast approaching, she musters up the courage to have a talk with her dad.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e In this thoughtful story about understanding and acceptance, Violet’s natural introversion and feelings of social anxiety are normalized when she and her father reach a solution together. Christine Baldacchino’s warm text demonstrates the role imagination often plays for children dealing with anxiety, and the power of a child expressing their feelings to a parent who is there to listen. Carmen Mok’s charming illustrations perfectly capture Violet’s emotions and the vibrancy of her imagination. A valuable contribution to books addressing mental health.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis Braille edition consists of the original book with Braille overlays added by hand. Each edition is made on demand, and Groundwood Books is selling this edition at cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRetell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7\u003cbr\u003e\r\nUse illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDescribe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781554988235","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781773060101","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781773062402","AudienceRangePrecision_1_0":"03","AudienceRangePrecision_1_1":"03","AudienceRangePrecision_1_2":"03","AudienceRangePrecision_2_0":"04","AudienceRangePrecision_2_1":"04","AudienceRangePrecision_2_2":"04","AudienceRangeQualifier_0":"11","AudienceRangeQualifier_1":"17","AudienceRangeQualifier_2":"26","AudienceRangeValue_1_0":"P","AudienceRangeValue_1_1":"3","AudienceRangeValue_1_2":"P","AudienceRangeValue_2_0":"2","AudienceRangeValue_2_1":"7","AudienceRangeValue_2_2":"2","BASICMainSubject":"JUV039050","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"JUVENILE FICTION \/ Social Themes \/ Emotions \u0026 Feelings","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHRISTINE BALDACCHINO\u003c\/strong\u003e is a graphic artist and web designer with a background in early childhood education. Her picture book \u003cem\u003eMorris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress\u003c\/em\u003e was a Stonewall Honor recipient and the winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Best Picture Book. She lives with her husband in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"JUVENILE FICTION \/ Social Themes \/ Emotions \u0026amp; Feelings","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"JUVENILE FICTION \/ Family \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"JUVENILE FICTION \/ Holidays \u0026amp; Celebrations \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"JUV039050","BISACSubject_1":"JUV013000","BISACSubject_2":"JUV017000","CommonCore":"CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7","CommonCore_1":"CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3","CommonCore_2":"CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHRISTINE BALDACCHINO\u003c\/strong\u003e is a graphic artist and web designer with a background in early childhood education. Her picture book \u003cem\u003eMorris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress\u003c\/em\u003e was a Stonewall Honor recipient and the winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Best Picture Book. She lives with her husband in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCARMEN MOK\u003c\/strong\u003e is a studio-art graduate of the University of Waterloo and a craft and design graduate of Sheridan College. She has illustrated \u003cem\u003ePercy's Museum\u003c\/em\u003e by Sara O'Leary, \u003cem\u003eViolet Shrink\u003c\/em\u003e by Christine Baldacchino and \u003cem\u003eGrandmother’s Visit\u003c\/em\u003e by Betty Quan, an Asian\/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor title. Carmen’s other noteworthy books include \u003cem\u003eA Stopwatch from Grampa\u003c\/em\u003e by Loretta Garbutt, \u003cem\u003eCone Cat\u003c\/em\u003e by Sarah Howden and \u003cem\u003eTough Like Mum\u003c\/em\u003e by Lana Button. She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Baldacchino, Christine (CA)","Contributor_1":"Mok, Carmen (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this powerful story from Christine Baldacchino, author of \u003cem\u003eMorris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress\u003c\/em\u003e, a young girl navigates social anxiety at family gatherings and works with her father to find a solution. This Braille edition consists of the original book with Braille overlays added by hand. Each edition is made on demand, and Groundwood Books is selling this edition at cost.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eViolet Shrink doesn’t like parties. Or bashes, or gatherings. Lots of people and lots of noise make Violet’s tummy ache and her hands sweat. She would much rather spend time on her own, watching the birds in her backyard, reading comics or listening to music through her purple headphones. The problem is that the whole Shrink family loves parties with loud music and games and dancing. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Cousin Char’s birthday party, Violet hides under a table and imagines she is a shark gliding effortlessly through the water, looking for food. And at Auntie Marlene and Uncle Leli’s anniversary bash, Violet sits alone at the top of the stairs, imagining she is a slithering snake way up in the branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Violet learns that the Shrink family reunion is fast approaching, she musters up the courage to have a talk with her dad.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e In this thoughtful story about understanding and acceptance, Violet’s natural introversion and feelings of social anxiety are normalized when she and her father reach a solution together. Christine Baldacchino’s warm text demonstrates the role imagination often plays for children dealing with anxiety, and the power of a child expressing their feelings to a parent who is there to listen. Carmen Mok’s charming illustrations perfectly capture Violet’s emotions and the vibrancy of her imagination. A valuable contribution to books addressing mental health.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis Braille edition consists of the original book with Braille overlays added by hand. Each edition is made on demand, and Groundwood Books is selling this edition at cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRetell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7\u003cbr\u003e\r\nUse illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDescribe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781773064932","Height":"9.875","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","MetaKeywords":"introverted; shyness; supportive family; understanding differences; social anxiety; mental health; feeling anxious; loving family; single parent; braille edition; acceptance; adaptability; empathy; connecting; predicting; Common Core aligned; CC Literature Key Ideas and Details; CC Literature Craft and Structure; grade 1; grade 2; grade 3; grade 4; picture book","NumberOfPages":"32","OtherText_Review_0":"Morris is a complex character whose creativity and personality shine.… Sensitive and reassuring.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"Baldacchino’s gentle story sensitively depicts gender nonconforming children, offering them reassurance and, one hopes, acceptance by introducing other children to the concept.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_2":"Baldacchino doesn’t sugar-coat the teasing and isolation Morris endures.… Malenfant showcases Morris’s full emotional spectrum.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_3":"[R]ather than presenting an overt message about gender identity, the book provides a subtle and refreshing glimpse at a boy who simply likes to dress up.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_4":"[A] wonderfully moving and enriching picture book. Morris is a relatable character whom many readers will find both sympathetic and familiar.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In this powerful story, a young girl navigates social anxiety at family gatherings and works with her father to find a solution.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Mighty Village Spring Book Picks","PrizeName_1":"Today‚Äôs Parent Book of the Week","PrizeYear_0":"2020","PrizeYear_1":"2020","ProductFormDescription":"braille","PublicationDate":"2020-03-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"In this powerful story, a young girl navigates social anxiety at family gatherings and works with her father to find a solution.","Width":"8.25","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 3
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Violet Shrink - Braille Edition
In this powerful story, a young girl navigates social anxiety at family gatherings and works with her father to find a solution.
Quick View
{"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. Until one morning, while crossing a misty common, he makes a terrible discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the local community rallies, fingers of blame point at those who were recently welcomed with open arms. And before long, London’s newest arrivals become the prime suspects in a tragedy that threatens to tear the city apart. 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","published_at":"2022-03-21T17:16:52-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T12:40:51-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Anansi International","By (author) Hare Louise","pub date: 2020-04-07"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"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":40191026626619,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007058","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"This Lovely City - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":452,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007058","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191101599803,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007065","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"This Lovely City - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007065","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191101632571,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007072","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"This Lovely City - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007072","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a5cb5179-c366-4bb3-bad6-bb97ba263968.jpg?v=1647886753"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a5cb5179-c366-4bb3-bad6-bb97ba263968.jpg?v=1647886753","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"On a blue background there are gold triangles, black triangles, and pink stars and circles. 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. Louise Hare. “A must-read for fans of Zadie Smith.” Kirkus Reviews. “Full of life and love… It made my heart soar” Stacey Halls.","id":21748977467451,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"width":1651,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a5cb5179-c366-4bb3-bad6-bb97ba263968.jpg?v=1647886753"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a5cb5179-c366-4bb3-bad6-bb97ba263968.jpg?v=1647886753","width":1651}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\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. Until one morning, while crossing a misty common, he makes a terrible discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the local community rallies, fingers of blame point at those who were recently welcomed with open arms. And before long, London’s newest arrivals become the prime suspects in a tragedy that threatens to tear the city apart. 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"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887847882","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487000806","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770894747","BASICMainSubject":"FIC000000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOUISE HARE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a London-based writer and editor with an M.A. in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. In 2016, her short story “The Odyssey of Dee Lennox” was shortlisted for the Just Write Creative Writing Competition, and in 2017 she was a finalist for the prestigious Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. \u003cem\u003eThis Lovely City\u003c\/em\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e@LouRHare\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Historical \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"FIC000000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC014000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOUISE HARE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a London-based writer and editor with an M.A. in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. In 2016, her short story “The Odyssey of Dee Lennox” was shortlisted for the Just Write Creative Writing Competition, and in 2017 she was a finalist for the prestigious Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. \u003cem\u003eThis Lovely City\u003c\/em\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e@LouRHare\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Hare, Louise","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. Until one morning, while crossing a misty common, he makes a terrible discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the local community rallies, fingers of blame point at those who were recently welcomed with open arms. And before long, London’s newest arrivals become the prime suspects in a tragedy that threatens to tear the city apart. 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.
