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{"id":7524249796667,"title":"Pigeon English","handle":"pigeon-english","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Pigeon English is a triumph.\" -- Emma Donoghue, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Guardian First Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate in London, England. The second-best runner in his grade, Harri races through his new life in his personalized trainers -- the Adidas stripes drawn on with black marker -- blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith equal fascination for the local gang -- the Dell Farm Crew --and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements that surround him: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA deeply funny, moving, and unforgettable story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePigeon English\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-01-16T17:03:09-05:00","created_at":"2026-01-16T11:33:08-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":[],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"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":43233626030139,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842603","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Pigeon English - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842603","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890312.jpg?v=1768581110"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890312.jpg?v=1768581110","options":["Title "],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26292246347835,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.649,"height":666,"width":432,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890312.jpg?v=1768581110"},"aspect_ratio":0.649,"height":666,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890312.jpg?v=1768581110","width":432}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Pigeon English is a triumph.\" -- Emma Donoghue, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Guardian First Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate in London, England. The second-best runner in his grade, Harri races through his new life in his personalized trainers -- the Adidas stripes drawn on with black marker -- blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith equal fascination for the local gang -- the Dell Farm Crew --and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements that surround him: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA deeply funny, moving, and unforgettable story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePigeon English\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEPHEN KELMAN \u003c\/strong\u003eis a screenwriter and novelist, He lives in Bedfordshire, England.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Kelman, Stephen","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"288","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7524235116603,"title":"The Griffin Poetry Prize 2013 Anthology","handle":"the-griffin-poetry-prize-2001-anthology-1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. And each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year, editor and prize juror Suzanne Buffam’s selections from the international shortlist include poems from Jennifer Maiden’s \u003cem\u003eLiquid Nitrogen\u003c\/em\u003e (Giramondo Publishing), Alan Shapiro’s \u003cem\u003eNight of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Brenda Shaughnessy’s \u003cem\u003eOur Andromeda\u003c\/em\u003e (Copper Canyon Press), and Ghassan Zaqtan’s \u003cem\u003eLike a Straw Bird it Follows Me, and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Yale University Press), translated by Fady Joudah. The selections from the Canadian shortlist include poems from David W. 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Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. And each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year, editor and prize juror Suzanne Buffam’s selections from the international shortlist include poems from Jennifer Maiden’s \u003cem\u003eLiquid Nitrogen\u003c\/em\u003e (Giramondo Publishing), Alan Shapiro’s \u003cem\u003eNight of the Republic\u003c\/em\u003e (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Brenda Shaughnessy’s \u003cem\u003eOur Andromeda\u003c\/em\u003e (Copper Canyon Press), and Ghassan Zaqtan’s \u003cem\u003eLike a Straw Bird it Follows Me, and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Yale University Press), translated by Fady Joudah. The selections from the Canadian shortlist include poems from David W. McFadden’s \u003cem\u003eWhat’s the Score\u003c\/em\u003e (Mansfield Press), \u003cem\u003eSailing to Babylon\u003c\/em\u003e by James Pollock (Able Muse Press), and \u003cem\u003ePersonals\u003c\/em\u003e by Ian Williams (Freehand Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn choosing the 2013 shortlist, prize jurors Suzanne Buffam, Mark Doty, and Wang Ping considered more than 500 collections published in the previous year. The jury also wrote the citations that introduce the seven poets’ nominated works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlist to be announced: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 \u003cbr\u003eReadings: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 \u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: Thursday, June 13, 2013\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"Esta Spalding's first book, \u003cem\u003eCarrying Place\u003c\/em\u003e, was nominated for the Gerald R. Lampert Award and her second, \u003cem\u003eAnchoress\u003c\/em\u003e, was a finalist for the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Best Specialty Book of the Year. Her third book, \u003cem\u003eLost August\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and her fourth, \u003cem\u003eThe Wife's Account\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Esta lives in Guelph, Ontario.","ContributorRole_0":"Edited by","Contributor_0":"Spalding, Esta","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"120","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7524231446587,"title":"Annabel","handle":"annabel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as \"Annabel\" — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiddlesex\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnnabel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a compelling tale about one person's struggle to discover the truth about their birth and self in a culture that shuns contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-01-16T17:03:07-05:00","created_at":"2026-01-16T10:31:42-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":[],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":3295,"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":43135213404219,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842368","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Annabel - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":3295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842368","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":43135213436987,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842900","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Annabel - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842900","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842900.jpg?v=1768577486"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842900.jpg?v=1768577486","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26292106166331,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842900.jpg?v=1768577486"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887842900.jpg?v=1768577486","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as \"Annabel\" — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiddlesex\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnnabel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a compelling tale about one person's struggle to discover the truth about their birth and self in a culture that shuns contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKATHLEEN WINTER\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the international bestseller, \u003cem\u003eAnnabel\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her first collection of stories, \u003cem\u003eboys\u003c\/em\u003e, won both the Winterset Award and the Metcalf–Rooke Award. A long-time resident of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Winter, Kathleen","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"480","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press inc","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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{"id":7349201043515,"title":"Not That Kind of Place","handle":"not-that-kind-of-place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn May 1997, eighteen-year-old Laura McPherson left her house for a run and didn’t return …\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, a reporter arrives in the small town of Griffiths to write an article about the unsolved murder of Laura McPherson. He is the most recent in a long line of journalists, podcasters, and amateur sleuths seeking new insights into what really happened to Laura.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaura’s younger brother, David, a repressed and stuck thirty-something, is dealing with the recent death of his mother when the reporter comes knocking. The last surviving family member, David has lived a sheltered life, protected from the prying eyes of the media by his mother. But David cannot escape the past forever, and soon finds himself confronting the lasting impact of his sister’s death. As David learns more about his sister and the history of Griffiths, his eyes are opened to the casual violence, misogyny, and racism that lurk just below the surface of his seemingly placid community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvocative and haunting, \u003cem\u003eNot That Kind of Place\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary anti-mystery, a compelling exploration of our obsession with true-crime stories and the devastating effects of systemic violence on our most vulnerable populations.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-21T10:39:30-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-21T10:35:22-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Melgaard Michael","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2023-08-29","Thrillers \u0026 Mystery"],"price":2299,"price_min":2299,"price_max":2299,"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":42025521119291,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011178","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Not That Kind of Place - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":376,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011178","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_40b80ee6-5ffe-4cb0-858b-c8dfdc5f85a9.jpg?v=1740152136"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_40b80ee6-5ffe-4cb0-858b-c8dfdc5f85a9.jpg?v=1740152136","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25137218846779,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_40b80ee6-5ffe-4cb0-858b-c8dfdc5f85a9.jpg?v=1740152136"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_40b80ee6-5ffe-4cb0-858b-c8dfdc5f85a9.jpg?v=1740152136","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn May 1997, eighteen-year-old Laura McPherson left her house for a run and didn’t return …\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, a reporter arrives in the small town of Griffiths to write an article about the unsolved murder of Laura McPherson. He is the most recent in a long line of journalists, podcasters, and amateur sleuths seeking new insights into what really happened to Laura.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaura’s younger brother, David, a repressed and stuck thirty-something, is dealing with the recent death of his mother when the reporter comes knocking. The last surviving family member, David has lived a sheltered life, protected from the prying eyes of the media by his mother. But David cannot escape the past forever, and soon finds himself confronting the lasting impact of his sister’s death. As David learns more about his sister and the history of Griffiths, his eyes are opened to the casual violence, misogyny, and racism that lurk just below the surface of his seemingly placid community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvocative and haunting, \u003cem\u003eNot That Kind of Place\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary anti-mystery, a compelling exploration of our obsession with true-crime stories and the devastating effects of systemic violence on our most vulnerable populations.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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In his enthralling debut novel, \u003cem\u003eNot That Kind of Place\u003c\/em\u003e, Michael Melgaard deftly explores how those secrets can erode the mythology of a place and reveal ultimate truths on their own. Through a richly layered story crafted at a riveting pace, Melgaard exposes the faults of the idyllic snapshot of Canadiana and the collective humanity needed to face tragedy and heal as a community. This novel is at once a compelling mystery and a sharp social critique, bringing the voices of the marginalized to the centre and forcing us to question the power imbalance of any Canadian community.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eWaubgeshig Rice, author of \u003cem\u003eMoon of the Crusted Snow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Much more than just an absorbing mystery, \u003cem\u003eNot That Kind of Place \u003c\/em\u003eshines its light beyond the standard coverage of true crime to the depths of deep-rooted societal injustice. A page-turning exploration of what actually goes into making a town what it is.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eIain Reid, author of \u003cem\u003eI'm Thinking of Ending Things\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNovel explores themes of grief, the exploitative nature of true crime, and small-town violence. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwin Peaks\u003c\/em\u003e-type atmosphere: everyone knows there is violence baked into the town and allows it to happen \/ everyone could be a suspect in a murder because everyone is capable of being a murderer. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe story takes place on Vancouver Island.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Not That Kind of Place\u003c\/em\u003e utterly captivates … David’s journey to understanding is low-key, almost laconic, but this approach only adds power to the narrative, leaving it to the reader to carry the weight of his new understanding. It’s a brilliant approach and a brilliant novel.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Melgaard is interested in peeling back the placid surface of small-town life to expose the rot and decay beneath.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eNot That Kind of Place\u003c\/em\u003e is almost certainly unlike any murder mystery you’ve read … An amazing work.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Not That Kind of Place\u003c\/em\u003e is not true crime, of course, but it offers a thoughtful and complicated send-up of the genre.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tyee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is not a conventional who-done-it … The hunt here isn’t so much the search for the murderer, as the revelation of the collective malaise. 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Not That Kind of Place
A rising literary star delivers a haunting exploration of the long-term effects of systemic violence.
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{"id":7349185216571,"title":"The Elements","handle":"the-elements","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/i\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-21T10:04:36-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-21T09:58:33-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"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":42025479176251,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003722","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Elements - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003722","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"This image is in shades of black and white. A statue on a cliff looks out over the ruins of an old city. The statue resembles a man with short curly hair. It has one arm out and is has a draped cloak around it. The ruins of the city are mainly rubble and stone walls with window openings. The buildings are densely packed together. Text: Erín Moure. The Elements. (Nam:Loz).","id":25137104126011,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/i\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Elements
Award winning poet and translator Erín Moure's collection is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction.
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Chaser
An exciting and provocative collection from one of the most promising young voices in Canadian poetry.
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{"id":7348967768123,"title":"The Blue Dragon","handle":"the-blue-dragon","description":"In this stunning graphic-novel adaptation of Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud’s play, the personal meets the political, East meets West, and old meets new. Claire, a Quebecoise art dealer, arrives in China to adopt a little girl. There she visits her ex-husband, Pierre, who after fifteen years in China has begun to question the new directions his adopted country is going in. Claire and Pierre’s lover, the young Chinese artist Xiao Ling, become fast friends. Through this classic love triangle, The Blue Dragon examines aging, cultural confusion, fertility, and creativity, and emerges as a fascinating examination of some of modern China’s most intriguing paradoxes.\n\nFred Jourdain’s gorgeous, colourful, and cinematic drawings do full justice to the story’s genesis as one of Robert Lepage’s most dazzling theatrical constructions. A feast for the mind as well as the senses, The Blue Dragon is an extraordinary graphic novel for grownups.","published_at":"2025-02-20T16:50:29-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-20T16:44:52-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Lepage Robert","By (author) Michaud Marie","House of Anansi Press","Illustrated by Jourdain Fred","pub date: 2011-11-05"],"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":42024731902011,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890374","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Blue Dragon - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":249,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890374","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3d960429-5777-4ab0-bff0-a5607076c921.jpg?v=1740087907"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3d960429-5777-4ab0-bff0-a5607076c921.jpg?v=1740087907","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25135667314747,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":864,"width":648,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3d960429-5777-4ab0-bff0-a5607076c921.jpg?v=1740087907"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":864,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3d960429-5777-4ab0-bff0-a5607076c921.jpg?v=1740087907","width":648}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"In this stunning graphic-novel adaptation of Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud’s play, the personal meets the political, East meets West, and old meets new. Claire, a Quebecoise art dealer, arrives in China to adopt a little girl. There she visits her ex-husband, Pierre, who after fifteen years in China has begun to question the new directions his adopted country is going in. Claire and Pierre’s lover, the young Chinese artist Xiao Ling, become fast friends. Through this classic love triangle, The Blue Dragon examines aging, cultural confusion, fertility, and creativity, and emerges as a fascinating examination of some of modern China’s most intriguing paradoxes.\n\nFred Jourdain’s gorgeous, colourful, and cinematic drawings do full justice to the story’s genesis as one of Robert Lepage’s most dazzling theatrical constructions. A feast for the mind as well as the senses, The Blue Dragon is an extraordinary graphic novel for grownups."}
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The Blue Dragon
An evocative, beautifully illustrated tale of a Canadian expatriate in China from legendary theatre director and visionary Robert Lepage.
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The Expanding Prison
This argument for prison reform is a vision of justice, not vengeance.
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Spin
Marketing strategist and political analyst Clive Veroni’s Spin has been updated to reflect the current era of Brexit and Trump.
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Little Crosses
A daughter examines her complicated relationship with a charismatic, narcissistic mother who now lives with alcohol-related dementia.
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Her work appears in \u003cem\u003eArcturus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCosmonauts Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEntropy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIsland Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eQuail Bell\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStone Boat\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSpectacle\u003c\/em\u003e and has won recognition in the Best of the Net, Aeon Award, and Eyelands Flash Fiction competitions.\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Wong, Mandy-Suzanne","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOf course, each thing has its own sides to every story.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people, to pick up the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e follows an impenetrable rectangular cuboid as it changes hands in a collapsing metropolis, causing confluences, conflicts, rifts, and disasters. Different narrators, each with a distinctive voice, give secondhand accounts of decisive moments in the box's life. From the anthrophobe to a newly hired curator of a renowned art collection, from a couple who own an antiquarian bookshop to a hotel bartender hiding from a terrible past, the storytellers repeat rumors and rely on faulty memories, grasping at something that continually escapes them. Haunting their recollections in one mysterious woman who, convinced of the box's good or evil powers, pursues it with deadly desperation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this mesmerizing, intricately constructed puzzle of a novel, Mandy-Suzanne Wong challenges our understanding of subject and objects, of cause and effect. Is it only humans who have agency? What is or isn't animate? What do we value and what do we discard?\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487012496","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487012496\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.25","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"social collapse;experimental writing;saha;cho nam joo;magical realism;social horror;psychological thriller;clifi;climate change;bermudian literature","NumberOfPages":"248","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Box\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary novel, gamesome and philosophical. Not since Borges have I experienced fiction as a perfect maze or puzzle, endlessly pleasing. The reader enters it, fascinated, just as s\/he goes out into the snow, which is always falling. Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a writer to watch.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eAmina Cain, author of \u003cem\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Amina Cain, author of A Horse at Night and Indelicacy","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s bold, singular, and brilliant novel\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis so strange, so enigmatic, it’s nearly impossible to describe. In an unnamed city with unending snow, a tiny box falls from a stranger's pocket. From there the reader is bestowed with an array of different narrators and situations: art galleries, pawnshops, antiquarian bookshops. By turns funny and profound, \u003cem\u003eThe Box \u003c\/em\u003eis a feat of language and storytelling and, in the end, a revelation.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eMark Haber, author of \u003cem\u003eSaint Sebastian’s Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eReinhardt’s Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Mark Haber, author of Saint Sebastian’s Abyss and Reinhardt’s Garden","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"If one of César Aira’s sly, sophisticated fictions took a detour through Jane Bennett’s theory of vibrant matter, the result might look something like \u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e. At once a detective story, a meditation on art in the Anthropocene, and a speculative encounter with the liveliness of things, Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s startling novel is literature for our times.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eSofia Samatar, author of \u003cem\u003eThe White Mosque\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTender\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sofia Samatar, author of The White Mosque and Tender","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wong's limpid, precise prose has a nineteenth century vibe, while her focus, an inanimate object, could not be more contemporary. Riveting and elegant, \u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e brings to mind Kazuo Ishiguro at his most enigmatic.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eDaisy Rockwell, author of \u003cem\u003eTaste\u003c\/em\u003e, translator of \u003cem\u003eTomb of Sand \u003c\/em\u003eby Geetanjali Shree\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Daisy Rockwell, author of Taste, translator of Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eExplores themes of: mysterious forces; social collapse; climate change; the unreliability of memory; disconnection and loss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor fans of the Netflix series’ \u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvance praise: “\u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary novel, gamesome and philosophical. Not since Borges have, I experienced fiction as a perfect maze or puzzle, endlessly pleasing. The reader enters it, fascinated, just as s\/he goes out into the snow, which is always falling. Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a writer to watch.” — Amina Cain, author of \u003cem\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eExplores themes of: mysterious forces; social collapse; climate change; the unreliability of memory; disconnection and loss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor fans of the Netflix series’ \u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvance praise: “\u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary novel, gamesome and philosophical. Not since Borges have, I experienced fiction as a perfect maze or puzzle, endlessly pleasing. The reader enters it, fascinated, just as s\/he goes out into the snow, which is always falling. Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a writer to watch.” — Amina Cain, author of \u003cem\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wong displays formidable skill … drawing us into the highly wrought maze of her novel and making it fun.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"A feast of knotty sentences … Fans of experimental fiction ought to check this out.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Delivers something rare, evoking a creepy sort of glamour around books and stories, as if craving a good read is itself sometimes a form of dark desire.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Box\u003c\/em\u003e is not a relaxing read, but neither is it trying to be. The prose is dense, intelligent, and often striking.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"White Wall Review","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eA dark, surreal odyssey and a fascinating entanglement of language and cultural analysis … [\u003cem\u003eThe Box \u003c\/em\u003eis a] satisfyingly strange novel.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEVENT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"Endlessly creative and inventive ... Perfectly crafted writing.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Wall Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stylistically dazzling dystopian novel about things, people, and the forces and seams between them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"Republic of Consciousness Prize for Best Fiction","PrizeYear_0":"2023","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2023-09-19","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stylistically dazzling dystopian novel about things, people, and the forces and seams between them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Box
A stylistically dazzling dystopian novel about things, people, and the forces and seams between them.
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