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In \u003ci\u003eArrival\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with wit and panache, \u003ci\u003eArrival\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Canada’s literary awakening. Interwoven with Mount’s vivid tale are enlightening mini-biographies of the people who made it happen, from superstars Leonard Cohen and Marie-Claire Blais to lesser-known lights like the troubled and impassioned Harold Sonny Ladoo. The full range of Canada’s literary boom is here: the underground exploits of the \u003ci\u003eblew ointment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTish \u003c\/i\u003egangs; revolutionary critical forays by highbrow academics; the blunt-force trauma of our plain-spoken backwoods poetry; and the urgent political writing that erupted from the turmoil in Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, \u003ci\u003eArrival \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzling, variegated, and inspired piece of writing that helps explain how we got from there to here.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:21-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:23:21-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Mount Nick","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2017-09-02"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2995,"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":40206676492347,"title":"hardcover jacket","option1":"hardcover jacket","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892217","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Arrival - hardcover jacket","public_title":"hardcover jacket","options":["hardcover jacket"],"price":2995,"weight":720,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892217","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206678523963,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002183","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Arrival - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002183","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206678982715,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005436","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Arrival - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":590,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487005436","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206679736379,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892224","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Arrival - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770892224","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bce65c4a-7643-4280-823c-5111629137ba.jpg?v=1654444956"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bce65c4a-7643-4280-823c-5111629137ba.jpg?v=1654444956","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170971603003,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bce65c4a-7643-4280-823c-5111629137ba.jpg?v=1654444956"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bce65c4a-7643-4280-823c-5111629137ba.jpg?v=1654444956","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature… \u003ci\u003eArrival: The Story of CanLit\u003c\/i\u003e brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy.” — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eTop 100 Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Post \u003c\/i\u003e99 Best Books of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In \u003ci\u003eArrival\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with wit and panache, \u003ci\u003eArrival\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Canada’s literary awakening. Interwoven with Mount’s vivid tale are enlightening mini-biographies of the people who made it happen, from superstars Leonard Cohen and Marie-Claire Blais to lesser-known lights like the troubled and impassioned Harold Sonny Ladoo. The full range of Canada’s literary boom is here: the underground exploits of the \u003ci\u003eblew ointment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTish \u003c\/i\u003egangs; revolutionary critical forays by highbrow academics; the blunt-force trauma of our plain-spoken backwoods poetry; and the urgent political writing that erupted from the turmoil in Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, \u003ci\u003eArrival \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzling, variegated, and inspired piece of writing that helps explain how we got from there to here.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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There is nothing else like it in the marketplace. Moreover, many of the authors featured in the book do not have standalone biographies, so readers interested in the genesis of those authors will continue to pick it up for years to come.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBEAUTIFUL PACKAGE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe received many compliments on the beautiful cover design and endpapers in the hardcover edition, and our paperback will be equally stunning!\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRESPECTED AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNick Mount is a hugely popular and well-connected figure in both literary and media circles. He will continue to be integral in promoting this book.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIMPECCABLY RESEARCHED:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eArrival is written with true wit and panache — this is not a dry history of CanLit — as evidenced by the strong reviews, which often highlighted Mount’s accessible writing and sense of humour.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFEATURES ICONIC AUTHORS SUCH AS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMargaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Mordecai Richler, among many others.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[From Chapter 1: Surfacing]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe had a small cross tattooed on his chest and a significant scar on his throat. He told different stories about how he got them. In one version, the tattoo was a grateful reminder of his education in a Canadian church mission school and the scar the remains of a childhood surgery. At another time, for another audience, he might say he picked up the tattoo while drunk on shore leave, the scar in a knife fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarold Sonny Ladoo emigrated from Trinidad to Canada in 1968, an early arrival in a wave of immigration made possible by a new point system that made Canada more open than ever before to immigration from non-European countries. Like most such immigrants, he came to Toronto. He came in his early twenties, already married, with children. And he came determined. You might doubt his stories, but no one who met Harold — never Harry — ever doubted he would tell them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwo years and a lot of dishwashing later, he met the new writer-in-residence of the new Erindale College at the new Islington subway station. As Peter Such tells it, he noticed a young man in a cheap coat several sizes too large for him, a man “staring straight ahead, looking at somewhere else completely.” Whatever he saw out there, he wrote it down on the back of a TTC transfer. On a hunch, Such asked the young man if he was a writer; he said, yes, I am. Such invited him to see Erindale, and with the help of an equally impressed registrar, Harold Ladoo found himself enrolled as a mature student at the new Mississauga campus of the University of Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe calendar said 1970 but it was still the sixties, and the talk in his corner of the student cafeteria was of Marx and Fanon, Lenin and Mao, Che Guevara and Angela Davis. Ladoo joined the battle as if he had been waiting for it his whole life (because he had), arguing about anything and everything, vigorously, intensely, to win. The other students called him Plato, partly out of respect, partly to mock him. He liked it. He was of them but apart from them, disdainful even, caring more for the words he was forever writing than the words and worries of others. A writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt first, of course, his words were borrowed. He wrote carefully measured poems, finger exercises from the Empire’s song book. Peter Such told him about a Toronto publisher named after an African god; he sent the poems to them. Their editor rejected them and told Ladoo to write about what he knew. Ladoo wrote a spiteful letter back, but he also burned everything he had written to that point, two suitcases full of manuscripts. And a week later he showed up in Such’s office with a half-dozen stories about the village near which he had grown up. By the end of his first year at Erindale, he had the draft of a novel. He submitted it to the editor who had rejected his poems; they met at the Red Lion pub on Jarvis, the manuscript on the table between them. Again the editor said no, not yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThat summer, Ladoo learned on the day of his father’s death — August 12, 1971 — that the people of Canada wanted to give him money to write a book. He used $300 of his $500 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to return to Trinidad, where he found his mother drunk, his brother a confirmed lunatic, and his sisters and neighbours fighting over the property. When he came back to Toronto in September, he had no money, his wife was unemployed, his son was sick, and they were about to be evicted. A relative let the family move into the basement of her bungalow on Victoria Park Avenue. Ladoo borrowed enough money to go back to school for his second year, making the long commute from the edge of Scarborough to the middle of Mississauga. And he wrote the book he was being paid to write, the book he had learned to write, the book he was born to write:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn my long hours of aloneness, in my frustration and sorrow, in my sleeplessness and the painful awareness of impotence and doom, even during the illness of my wife and my son, I took to my typewriter to write a book… . For fifty days I heard only the groaning of my son as the keys of the typewriter went still. But I could not stop.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis time the editor said yes. In the fall of 1972, Harold Sonny Ladoo from Trinidad became a published Canadian author. His first novel, No \u003cem\u003ePain Like This Body\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Dennis Lee, was published by House of Anansi Press in Toronto for $8.50 cloth, $2.95 paper. On the back, a photograph by Graeme Gibson shows Ladoo smoking, staring straight ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarold Ladoo was part and product of a literary explosion unlike anything Canada has ever experienced, before or since. The long decade between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s saw the emergence of the best-known names in Canadian literature, writers to whom time (never mind subsequent events) has so far been kinder than it has to Ladoo. These are the names most people still think of when they think of Canadian writing, names like Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, Margaret Laurence, Dennis Lee, Alistair MacLeod, Alice Munro, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, Mordecai Richler, and Michel Tremblay.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt wasn’t just literary. Canada awoke in the 1960s, shaken by the excitement leading up to the party in Montreal. But the explosion was loudest and echoed longest in print. By the 1950s, Canadian art had a “distinct canon of images”: the lonely pine, the snow-covered village church, the canoe, the mountain. No such set of literary images existed in the national psyche until after the sixties — no double hooks, no stone angels, no beautiful beasts or beautiful losers. That’s partly the problem addressed by the Massey Report, the government’s 1951 enquiry into Canadian culture: the realization that, as a means of national expression, literature had “fallen far behind painting.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of when all that changed. It’s a story about writers, publishers, and readers, people who in one way or another played leading roles. It’s also the story of the culture that created and sustained them, a society finally comfortable enough to think about something besides trees and wheat. Postwar prosperity created both an existential backlash — the nagging sense that this can’t be all there is — and the means to buy what was missing or the leisure to produce it. Few realized it at the time, but that’s what the hippies of Yorkville shared with their parents, and with the politicians in Ottawa: the desire to redirect affluence into immaterial rewards, the “intangibles” that the Massey Report said make up a nation. You can’t get much more intangible than barefoot in the park.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eHorn Book\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Arrival: The Story of CanLit is a fine gathering together of so many people — critics, publishers and, of course, writers — to explore and explain the eruption that took place in the 1960s and early 70s in our culture. . . . A kaleidoscope of fascinating people who shaped our country’s growth into a literature respected around the world.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"[A] quick and genuinely informative read, even for those who think they know the story [of CanLit] well.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"[Arrival offers] a vivid sense of the times. . . . Hats off to Arrival for its engaging coverage of a pivotal period in Canadian letters.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_3":"Arrival: The Story of CanLit . . . transform[s] our literature into a hothouse of eye-catching personalities. . . . Not only is Mount’s prose readable, but he has a Malcolm Gladwell–esque flair for mining history for little-known anecdotes.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Walrus","OtherText_Review_4":"There’s passion in these pages that’s infectious to read . . . Arrival is Mount's second book and, in many ways, he’s the only one who could possibly have written it. By turns professor, editor, advocate and critic, Mount's voice is rarely absent from any meaningful discussion of Canadian literature.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature … Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Acclaimed critic Nick Mount delves into Canada’s literary history and the era that produced some of our most internationally acclaimed authors.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Book","PrizeName_1":"National Post 99 Best Books Of The Year","PrizeYear_0":"2017","PrizeYear_1":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2017-09-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Acclaimed critic Nick Mount delves into Canada’s literary history and the era that produced some of our most internationally acclaimed authors.","Subtitle":"The Story of CanLit","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Arrival
Acclaimed critic Nick Mount delves into Canada’s literary history and the era that produced some of our most internationally acclaimed authors.
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{"id":6814253350971,"title":"Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada","handle":"manual-for-draftage-immigrants-to-canada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn print for the first time since 1971, \u003ci\u003eManual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada\u003c\/i\u003e has once again become relevant in a time of major political upheaval in the United States of America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1968 by House of Anansi Press, the \u003ci\u003eManual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada\u003c\/i\u003e was a handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada. Conceived as a practical guide with information on the process, the \u003ci\u003eManual\u003c\/i\u003e also features information on aspects of Canadian society, touching on topics like history, politics, culture, geography and climate, jobs, housing, and universities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eManual\u003c\/i\u003e went through several editions from 1968–71. Today, as Americans are taking up the discussion of immigration to Canada once again, it is an invaluable record of a moment in our recent history.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:26-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:24:47-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Satin Mark","pub date: 2017-08-26","Technology \u0026 Politics"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40206683013179,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002893","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487002893","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206687338555,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002909","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002909","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206688026683,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002916","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002916","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ceba9331-9fb6-4d49-9971-2434d5518285.jpg?v=1654443652"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ceba9331-9fb6-4d49-9971-2434d5518285.jpg?v=1654443652","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170943356987,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ceba9331-9fb6-4d49-9971-2434d5518285.jpg?v=1654443652"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ceba9331-9fb6-4d49-9971-2434d5518285.jpg?v=1654443652","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn print for the first time since 1971, \u003ci\u003eManual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada\u003c\/i\u003e has once again become relevant in a time of major political upheaval in the United States of America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1968 by House of Anansi Press, the \u003ci\u003eManual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada\u003c\/i\u003e was a handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada. Conceived as a practical guide with information on the process, the \u003ci\u003eManual\u003c\/i\u003e also features information on aspects of Canadian society, touching on topics like history, politics, culture, geography and climate, jobs, housing, and universities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eManual\u003c\/i\u003e went through several editions from 1968–71. Today, as Americans are taking up the discussion of immigration to Canada once again, it is an invaluable record of a moment in our recent history.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada
A handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada, with new modern relevance.
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Caught (TV tie-in edition)
A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.
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Great Expectations
In this collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: giving birth.
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Heroes in My Head
The incredible story of renowned feminist activist Judy Rebick’s struggle with depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
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Chicken
An acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.
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But this time he’d asked her, “Why do you want to be buried so far from town?” Kate had smiled and closed her eyes — for such a while that he thought she’d fallen asleep — then softly, but with some strength, as if to ensure that the point made it through the haze of morphine and fatigue, she said, “It’s beautiful there. It’s a lovely drive. Not too far. I know you’ll visit. And” — breathing deeply — “if it was in the city, I doubt you would. Anyway, it’ll get you out of your head for a few hours.” She was right. He’d been up once a month for the past thirty-eight months. When he’d looked at her ashes, he couldn’t see the difference between them and the ashes he retrieved from the fireplace to sprinkle on the garden — he couldn’t reassemble her. And yet, below the ground, beneath a headstone that bore only her initials, KGWM, he could imagine her on her side with her legs slightly tucked up — asleep. And it did get him out of his head. 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I’m about five minutes away from the cut-off to Lake Charles.”\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eU.S. EXPOSURE\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe will be giving away ARCs of \u003cem\u003eErasing Memory\u003c\/em\u003e at Bouchercon, Winter Institute, and ALA Midwinter.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[An] impressive debut . . . Superb writing, complex and highly likable characters, and the occasional delicious burst of violence definitely make the next books in this series worth watching for.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"This series will be a real winner.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Margaret Cannon","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Not since P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh has there been a police inspector as sophisticated as MacNeice.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"The reader is . . . compelled to go on, in part because that killer, if not a superior, twisted mind, is a first-class jerk and we love to see such people get their comeuppance.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"National Post","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The heart-pounding first installment of the MacNeice Mysteries, featuring a sophisticated detective solving the murder of a beautiful violinist.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-06-26","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The MacNeice Mysteries","ShortDescription":"The heart-pounding first installment of the MacNeice Mysteries, featuring a sophisticated detective solving the murder of a beautiful violinist.","Subtitle":"A MacNeice Mystery","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Erasing Memory
The heart-pounding first installment of the MacNeice Mysteries, featuring a sophisticated detective solving the murder of a beautiful violinist.
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These Festive Nights
The first volume in Marie-Claire Blais’ ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle, acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction.
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{"id":6813788438587,"title":"The Stranger Upstairs","handle":"the-stranger-upstairs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Trap\u003c\/i\u003e, a fast-paced psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth that asks how well we know the ones we love. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral years ago, your husband, and the father of your young son, disappeared. Since then, you’ve dreamt of his return; railed against him for leaving you alone; grieved for your marriage; and, finally, vowed to move on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne morning, the phone rings. When you answer, a voice at the other end tells you your husband’s on a plane bound for home, and that you’ll see him tomorrow. You’ve imagined this reunion countless times. Of course you have. But nothing has prepared you for the reality. 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The stranger reaches out and presses me to him. I gasp and try to back away, but he doesn’t let go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt isn’t that Philip was tall and strong, while this man is hardly bigger than me — nor is it the beard that covers his cheeks. It isn’t even the strange way in which he moves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is his eyes, which lack all warmth. The hair on my neck stands on end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHAT. IS. NOT. PHILIP.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Full of suspense, right up to the final paragraphs . . . An edgy thriller.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"AU Review","OtherText_Review_1":"What more could you want from a story than complete, unrelenting tension and creepiness to the point that you are nearly terrified to find out what is going to happen? 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Generates sustained psychological suspense that gets under the skin.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Age","OtherText_Review_4":"This psychological thriller will keep you guessing until the end.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Daily Life","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A pacey psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth that asks just how well we know those we love.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-11","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A pacey psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth that asks just how well we know those we love.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Stranger Upstairs
A pacey psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth that asks just how well we know those we love.
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{"id":6812123496507,"title":"The Time Has Come","handle":"the-time-has-come","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of Tim Wise’s \u003ci\u003eWhite Like Me\u003c\/i\u003e and Sheryl Sandberg’s \u003ci\u003eLean In\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Time Has Come \u003c\/i\u003e—by co-founder of the White Ribbon campaign Michael Kaufman — offers a plain-spoken and forthright look at why and how men must actively fight for gender equality.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom founding the White Ribbon Campaign, the world’s largest organized effort of men working to end violence against women, in the early 1990s, to his appointment as the only male member of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council, Michael Kaufman has been a major figure in promoting social justice and women’s rights for decades. 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With humor, heart, and research he provides a relatable blueprint for men who want to embark on this important journey.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Matt McGorry, actor and activist, Orange is the New Black, How to Get Away With Murder","OtherText_Accolades_1":"For too long the struggle for the rights of women and girls was seen as women’s business. Of course it’s equally men’s business and stops being such a struggle when it’s seen that way. This reframing gives us a chance to understand violence against women as deeply toxic for us all.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Kaufman’s The Time Has Come offers a personal and instructive appeal for men to take the journey from self-reflection to allyship to advocacy around gender equality.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Wade Davis","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Critically important for our time and required reading for us all. I had a hard time putting it down — it’s a great book.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Rosanna Arquette, Emmy-nominated actor","OtherText_Accolades_4":"An inspiring book loaded with wisdom and pragmatism. I strongly recommend this awesome book. THE TIME HAS COME!","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, co-founder of the Malala Fund, United Nations Special Adviser on Global Education","OtherText_Accolades_5":"With a combination of compelling stories and facts, Michael Kaufman offers a timely and important case for engaging men in the ongoing fight for gender equality.","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Deborah Gillis, President and CEO, Catalyst","OtherText_Accolades_6":"Through personal stories, insights gleaned from decades of working to end gender-based violence, and practical advice for those men ready to step up to the plate, Kaufman has produced a special book. 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Give it to every man you know.","OtherText_Accolades_9_Auth":"Judy Rebick, journalist, political activist, and author of Heroes in My Head","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFifty years of feminist organizing came to a head in early 2017. Millions of women and hundreds of thousands of men greeted the election of Donald Trump with some of the largest demonstrations the United States has ever seen. People joined in around the world. They were not only reacting to Trump’s boast of assaulting women but also were there to celebrate the impact of feminism and to show they would resist any attempts to roll back progress on women’s rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people in the streets and the tens of millions more who cheered in support inserted new life into decades of feminism and powered everything that was to come. Within months, revelations of sexual harassment and assault poured out of Silicon Valley; the film, theater, and TV industries; and the corporate world at home and abroad. The betrayal of trust, abuse of authority, and the denigration of women by men in positions of power pounded into our brains. As #MeToo and #TimesUp captured our attention, discussions quickly moved from newsrooms to dining rooms, staff rooms, and locker rooms. Men asked wives, daughters, and coworkers: Did anything like that ever happen to you? and a frightening number of women answered, Yes, of course, but why has it taken men so long to listen?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spreading shock waves are giving new impetus to demands in our workplaces for equal pay and equal access to all jobs. The millennia-long affirmative action program for my half of the species simply can’t go on. The shock waves are bringing new energy to concerns about the panoply of violence— verbal, sexual, emotional, physical—that countless women still experience. They are bringing more attention to the critical need for quality, affordable childcare and for parental leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd for men? More and more of us are realizing we cannot stay silent. We know we must speak out and we must examine our own attitudes and behaviors. But we’re also realizing that it’s time to rethink and reshape what it means to be a man because of the destructive and self-destructive ways we’ve defined manhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"This is a cogent, unusual call to action.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"Kaufman argues persuasively that true gender equality will be good for the economy, families, the environment, and perhaps, especially, men themselves . . . Kaufman focuses on how the power granted by gender inequality puts men over women, some men over other men, and man over nature, thus widening his scope. A timely, informative, thought-provoking, and practical approach to a necessary social reform. Recommended for both men and women.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Time Has Come offers a plain-spoken and forthright look at why and how men must actively fight for gender equality.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-01-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Time Has Come offers a plain-spoken and forthright look at why and how men must actively fight for gender equality.","Subtitle":"Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Time Has Come
The Time Has Come offers a plain-spoken and forthright look at why and how men must actively fight for gender equality.
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{"id":6812123398203,"title":"The Smile of the Wolf","handle":"the-smile-of-the-wolf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSmile of the Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e bares its fangs from the first page. Like a medieval tapestry, the storytelling is rich with imagery. Reader will be lured spellbound into this lyrical and evocative Icelandic saga. It deserves huge success.” — David Gilman, author of The Master of War series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe next great read for fans of the television show \u003ci\u003eVikings\u003c\/i\u003e; it’s \u0026gt;killing season in medieval Iceland where dead men rise from their graves, monsters are said to roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTENTH-CENTURY ICELAND. 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For the right reasons, they make the wrong choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir fateful decision leads to a brutal feud: one man is outlawed, free to be killed by anyone without consequence; the other remorselessly hunted by the dead man's kin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a world of ice and snow, \u003ci\u003eSmile of the Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic story of exile and revenge, of duels and betrayals, and two friends struggling to survive in a desolate landscape, where honour is the only code of law.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Readers will be lured spellbound into this lyrical and evocative Icelandic saga. It deserves huge success.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"David Gilman","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe feud began in winter, when a dead man rose from the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the distant lands where men worship the White Christ, I have heard that a ghost is not such a dangerous thing. They are creatures of no substance, who may wail and howl but cannot hurt a man. But in my country, the people are warriors even in death. Our ghosts are not shadow and air, but walking flesh. They wield their weapons with as much strength as they did in life, and more bravely, for they have nothing left to fear. And so, when we heard that Hrapp Osmundsson had crawled from his grave and begun to wander his lands at night, no man in the Salmon River Valley would leave his house after dark without a good blade at his side and a shield on his arm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn life, Hrapp had been the terror of his neighbours, ever covetous for their lands, their women, their blood. When the winter fever came on him and he knew he was soon to die, he commanded his wife to bury him upright beneath the doorway of his house, so that he could watch over his lands even in death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon enough, the stories spread throughout the dale. Thord the Sly had gone to check on his sheep at night and been set upon by a dead man carrying an axe. Erik Haroldsson, a braver man, had grappled with the creature when it came for him, but was sent running for his life with the heavy tread of the ghost behind him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo man sought to buy the farm from Hrapp’s widow. Indeed, there was talk amongst the neighbours of selling their own lands and moving on elsewhere, though there were few farm lands so prized in all of Iceland as those in the Salmon River Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all that was spoken of the ghost, I thought it mere winter talk at first, one of those foolish tales spun to pass the long cold months of near-permanent night, when men do little but huddle round their fires and drink mead, sing songs, tell stories and wait for the sun to return. I am a collector of such tales, yet I tell only the ones I know to be true — or half-true at least. This ghost story held little interest for me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then one night I heard Olaf the Peacock speak of it when I visited his farm to trade milk for ale; he was an honourable man, a respected chieftain of the people, and he would never tell a lie. He said that he had seen the bruises on Erik’s arms, and gone in search of the ghost himself. He had found it wandering Hrapp’s fields, bearing Hrapp’s old axe. Olaf cast a spear at it and the ghost had fled from him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wish he had not told me that. For it was then that I believed, and I began to tell the story myself.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Leach’s prose is taut, his characters are richly drawn, and the story unfolds with an Icelandic believable-but-inevitable tragedy.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1":"A fascinating book on many levels and a thoroughly absorbing read … In Smile of the Wolf, lovers and children are found and lost, loyalties tested, and the harsh reality of long ago Icelandic culture affirmed in a quite brilliant re-imagining of that time and place. Fans of historical fiction and suspense will find it a highly satisfying read.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Reviewing the Evidence","OtherText_Review_2":"A thoughtful, literary take on a world that is more often depicted in a boy’s adventure way. The focus in Leach’s book is not on the fighting, but on the strange, inescapable logic that makes the fighting inevitable.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"London Times","OtherText_Review_3":"An epic story of exile and revenge set in the snows of Iceland.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Sheffield Telegraph","OtherText_Review_4":"A poetic, absorbing narrative with many of the same qualities as the medieval Icelandic sagas that it echoes and reimagines.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_5":"Through him we understand the pitiless code of honour which drives almost everyone in the story to destruction – we understand, and we care.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Historical Novel Society","OtherText_Review_6":"A tale of winter with a fiery emotional heart.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Mind Reels","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In medieval Iceland dead men rise from the grave, monsters roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-01-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In medieval Iceland dead men rise from the grave, monsters roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
The Smile of the Wolf
In medieval Iceland dead men rise from the grave, monsters roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.
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{"id":6812120875067,"title":"Son of Two Fathers","handle":"son-of-two-fathers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis long-awaited final novel in the bestselling Grazia dei Rossi Trilogy follows Grazia dei Rossi’s only son, Danilo del Medigo, as he returns to the Republic of Venice at the height of Christendom’s persecution of the Jews.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApril, 1536. Danilo del Medigo arrives incognito in Venice from Istanbul, with two assassins hot on his trail. Western civilization is in crisis. Jews and “New Christians” — people whose families had converted from Judaism — are threatened with expulsion, imprisonment, and death. Danilo seeks refuge in the Venetian Ghetto, and promptly falls in love with the beautiful Miriamne Hazan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut soon Danilo is blackmailed into becoming a spy for Venice, which means he must abandon Miriamne in order to save her. 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Danilo del Medigo arrives incognito in Venice from Istanbul, with two assassins hot on his trail. Western civilization is in crisis. Jews and “New Christians” — people whose families had converted from Judaism — are threatened with expulsion, imprisonment, and death. Danilo seeks refuge in the Venetian Ghetto, and promptly falls in love with the beautiful Miriamne Hazan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut soon Danilo is blackmailed into becoming a spy for Venice, which means he must abandon Miriamne in order to save her. The only safe place is hiding in plain sight, so embeds himself within an itinerant group of actors travelling the Italian countryside. With assassins close behind, Danilo, together with a cast of libertines, courtesans, and fellow spies, witnesses the agony of the Renaissance: Protestants warring with Catholics, the Inquisition threatening everyone, and the Ottoman Empire poised to invade the heart of Europe. As fear and panic spread throughout the Jewish communities of Italy, a promise of a new lifeline emerges, and Danilo may be the only one who can ensure it.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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As Jackie’s friend and collaborator, Reid shared her passion for historical fiction and adds his own deep knowledge of Italian history and culture, while embellishing the story with ribald humour, scandalous intrigue, and page-turning drama.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Sandra Martin, author of A Good Death","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBESTSELLING HISTORICAL SERIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe first two books in the Grazia dei Rossi Trilogy — \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi\u003c\/em\u003e — were national bestsellers and also sold to territories abroad.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN APPETITE FOR WOMEN’S FICTION\/BOOK CLUB POTENTIAL:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe success of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet has shown there continues to be an appetite for strong, plot- and character-driven women’s fiction. 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Anything could be an ambush. Two men, arm in arm, were strolling along. As he watched them, they were greeted by friends coming out of a doorway. Not assassins, then. To his knowledge, when the Men in Black were sent on a mission they never gave up until it was accomplished. So, yes, they would return.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe took a gondola to well beyond the Rialto Bridge, and got off, walked down an alleyway, then doubled back, and, followed another alleyway — a calle — this one parallel to the Grand Canal — until he came to the mansion that was the home of the famous courtesan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt was an old and distinguished-looking building. Candles burned in the windows. He turned into a side alley and walked down it until he came to a door. A single small lamp, a votive offering to the Virgin Mary, burned over the entrance. A tall broad-shouldered man stood next to the door. He looked Danilo up and down and nodded. Danilo entered and went up a narrow wooden staircase, and when he stepped through a door he found himself on a large landing with a marble balustrade, large windows overlooking the Grand Canal, tapestries, and marble flooring. Everything was sparkling and impeccable, as if the whole setting had been installed only that morning. Several fashionable Venetian youths were hanging about on the landing gossiping and laughing but they did not bother with him, only giving him a cursory glance and then returning to their skittish talk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA very pretty, very young maidservant, in a tight bodice with a flared skirt, was coming up the stairs; she nodded at Danilo, held his gaze, and whispered, “Follow me, sir!” She led him further up the broad torch-lit staircase to the second floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen they entered the main salon, Danilo was dazzled by the sumptuous carpets, the tapestries, the paintings, the gold and silver, the opulent furniture, the gilded mirrors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Ah, here you are!” An elegant young woman turned away from the window and greeted him as if they were old friends. She was perhaps twenty-two or twenty-three. Her manners, self-assurance, and sophistication made her seem older; the freshness of her beauty made her seem younger. She was standing by a tall window that looked over the canal. Her red hair tumbled freely down her bare shoulders, her breasts barely concealed, her long robe open along one side, exposing a length of perfect leg, sparkling white, in silk. She looked at him with an amused, calculating expression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“You are a handsome fellow, my friend. So, we are to work together.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDanilo bowed. “Madam.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“And gallant, too!” She favored him with the brightest of smiles. “I am indeed pleased. My name is Veronica Libero. My work is to give pleasure — sensual, sexual, intellectual, and cultural. The quality of the conversation is essential. People must relax. They must feel free to express themselves. My clientele is varied — but on the whole, it consists, with a few necessary and unfortunate exceptions, of the very best of society. Many of Venice’s leaders are my friends. I do use the word ‘friend’ with caution. But I think I can say that. So, among the clientele who frequent my little abode, there are also foreigners, German merchants, people who deal with Charles V, some ecclesiastical figures who visit Venice from time to time, several Frenchmen who are close to the Court of François I, and of course Turks and Persians and Arabs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yes, I see.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Now, some of these gentlemen speak languages I don’t understand; we would like very much to know what they are saying, what they are talking about. I understand you speak Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Yes, madam, I do.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Call me Veronica, please.” Her eyes sparkled in merriment. “And who shall you be? Let’s invent someone, shall we? You are … Daniel del Monte!” For her, Danilo realized, life was a game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe bowed. Now he had three names: David, Daniel, and Danilo. He felt, somehow, that he should kiss her hand. She moved with the fluid ease, casualness, and feigned intimacy of royalty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“In a few minutes, the visitors will arrive. I will entertain them — as will some of my friends and colleagues. But our guests often speak in their own languages among themselves.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I see.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“And here, let me show you. I do apologize for the indignity of it, but you will be stowed away here, in this closed little alcove.” She pressed against a small decorative detail, and pulled it aside. A door — up to that point invisible — opened and Danilo saw what looked like a padded closet, or perhaps an invisible corridor running parallel to the wall of the salon. A whiff of stale air wafted out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I have put in a stool to make it more comfortable.” Veronica turned to him. “You have a good memory, I hope.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I believe it is fairly good — ah, Veronica.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Would you like a glass of wine?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I shall abstain, thank you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Very wise, Daniel, a clear head is essential in this business. Venice is like the Virgin Mary or, if you prefer classical allusions, she is like Aphrodite freshly risen from the sea. She is a gallant lady and she needs to be protected.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Venice has many enemies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yes, and many jealousies. Venice is rich and Venice is a republic, Venice is small, and she belongs to all of us. She has been around a long time — a thousand years at least — and so she deserves our care and solicitude.” She smiled. Her perfume — a heady mixture of jasmine and rose — made Danilo dizzy. The lamps sparkled off the gilt and silver and glass.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVeronica put her hand on Danilo’s shoulder, and gazed straight into his eyes. “I must warn you, my dear Daniel. One of our guests is of a particularly violent temperament. He’s quite brilliant — a Turkish gentleman, Signor Muharrem; he is excessively intelligent and cultured and charming — but he is known to have murdered many a man, and some women, too.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDanilo held her gaze and nodded. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“He delights in strangling people with his bare hands, and he is adept with a dagger. He must not discover our little game. Even if there is trouble, you are not to intervene. Julian will take care of it.” She nodded towards a tall broad-shouldered man who had been standing against one wall. The man nodded at Danilo. Veronica smiled. “Silence is essential.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Certainly.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Here, now I shall lock you in. For a little while, my dear friend, you shall be my prisoner.”\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A deeply satisfying conclusion to the writing that Park began more than two decades earlier . . . Son of Two Fathers offers readers a great deal. It has many thrilling moments laden with suspense, scalding tension, and unpredicted twists and turns of plot. It also provides thoughtful explorations and mini-dissertations on subjects as diverse as visual art, theatre art, philosophy, political history, and Jewish history. Readers interested in history will enjoy this book. Readers interested in Jewish history will delight in it.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Canadian Jewish News","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The final novel in the trilogy follows Grazia’s only son as he returns to Venice at the height of European Christendom’s persecution of the Jews.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-04-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"Grazia dei Rossi Trilogy","ShortDescription":"The final novel in the trilogy follows Grazia’s only son as he returns to Venice at the height of European Christendom’s persecution of the Jews.","Subtitle":"Book 3","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Son of Two Fathers
The final novel in the trilogy follows Grazia’s only son as he returns to Venice at the height of European Christendom’s persecution of the Jews.
