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{"id":7095986913339,"title":"Back in the Land of the Living","handle":"back-in-the-land-of-the-living","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos by Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Eva Crocker.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBack in the Land of the Living\u003c\/em\u003e brings us a year in the life of Marcy, a young queer woman who moves to Montreal in the fall of 2019 after making a mess of her life in St. John’s. Alone in a big city on the brink of lockdown, Marcy finds herself working an assortment of odd and sometimes dangerous, sometimes ethically questionable jobs, and swept up in a tumultuous romance with a charismatic woman. As friends, loyalties, and philosophies collide, Marcy tries to carve out a future amidst the intertwined crises of late capitalism, the climate apocalypse, and the Covid-19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith all the candour, wit, and bracing wisdom that have won her accolades and awards across Canada, Eva Crocker gives us a sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-02-23T16:47:51-05:00","created_at":"2023-02-23T15:54:03-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult LGBTQ+","By (author) Crocker Eva","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2023-08-22"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2399,"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":41136187015227,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487009779","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Back in the Land of the Living - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2399,"weight":327,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487009779","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41136228237371,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487009786","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Back in the Land of the Living - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487009786","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc9fbba6-71a0-452e-b8cd-8f7148469c1c.jpg?v=1716049495"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc9fbba6-71a0-452e-b8cd-8f7148469c1c.jpg?v=1716049495","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24557333217339,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc9fbba6-71a0-452e-b8cd-8f7148469c1c.jpg?v=1716049495"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc9fbba6-71a0-452e-b8cd-8f7148469c1c.jpg?v=1716049495","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos by Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Eva Crocker.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBack in the Land of the Living\u003c\/em\u003e brings us a year in the life of Marcy, a young queer woman who moves to Montreal in the fall of 2019 after making a mess of her life in St. John’s. Alone in a big city on the brink of lockdown, Marcy finds herself working an assortment of odd and sometimes dangerous, sometimes ethically questionable jobs, and swept up in a tumultuous romance with a charismatic woman. As friends, loyalties, and philosophies collide, Marcy tries to carve out a future amidst the intertwined crises of late capitalism, the climate apocalypse, and the Covid-19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith all the candour, wit, and bracing wisdom that have won her accolades and awards across Canada, Eva Crocker gives us a sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6811221884987,"title":"Cobalt","handle":"cobalt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tale of the early-twentieth-century mining rush at Cobalt has been told as a settler’s adventure, but Indigenous people had already been trading in metals from the region for two thousand years. And the events that happened here — the theft of Indigenous lands, the exploitation of a multicultural workforce, and the destruction of the natural environment — established a template for resource extraction that has been exported around the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharlie Angus reframes the complex and intersectional history of Cobalt within a broader international frame — from the conquistadores to the Western gold rush to the struggles in the Democratic Republic of Congo today. He demonstrates how Cobalt set Canada on its path to become the world’s dominant mining superpower.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T09:28:05-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:16:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Angus Charlie","Environmentalism","House of Anansi Press","Nonfiction","pub date: 2022-02-01"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":2499,"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":40190645436475,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487009496","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Cobalt - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2499,"weight":396,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487009496","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40190645567547,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487009502","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Cobalt - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1999,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487009502","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ccdef39e-58b4-411f-8c20-f167fc509278.jpg?v=1711254488"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ccdef39e-58b4-411f-8c20-f167fc509278.jpg?v=1711254488","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24351463768123,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ccdef39e-58b4-411f-8c20-f167fc509278.jpg?v=1711254488"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ccdef39e-58b4-411f-8c20-f167fc509278.jpg?v=1711254488","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tale of the early-twentieth-century mining rush at Cobalt has been told as a settler’s adventure, but Indigenous people had already been trading in metals from the region for two thousand years. And the events that happened here — the theft of Indigenous lands, the exploitation of a multicultural workforce, and the destruction of the natural environment — established a template for resource extraction that has been exported around the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharlie Angus reframes the complex and intersectional history of Cobalt within a broader international frame — from the conquistadores to the Western gold rush to the struggles in the Democratic Republic of Congo today. He demonstrates how Cobalt set Canada on its path to become the world’s dominant mining superpower.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003111","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487008024","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487008055","BASICMainSubject":"HIS006000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"HISTORY\/Canada\/General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eCHARLIE ANGUS \u003c\/strong\u003eis a nationally recognized politician, author, and musician. He has published nine books and is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the Trillium Book Award finalist \u003cem \u003eCobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower\u003c\/em\u003e. Angus has served in the Canadian Parliament for twenty years. He has earned a national reputation as a fierce fighter for social justice and Indigenous rights. Angus was the founding member of Toronto punk band L’etranger. He is the leader of the roots band Grievous Angels; their ninth album is \u003cem \u003eLast Call for Cinderella\u003c\/em\u003e. Angus lives in Cobalt, Ontario, with his wife, author Brit Griffin. 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He is the leader of the roots band Grievous Angels; their ninth album is \u003cem \u003eLast Call for Cinderella\u003c\/em\u003e. Angus lives in Cobalt, Ontario, with his wife, author Brit Griffin. They have three daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Angus, Charlie (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. 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He demonstrates how Cobalt set Canada on its path to become the world’s dominant mining superpower.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487009502","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487009502\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Canadian Shield;bay street toronto;lithium;investors;capitalism;foreign investment;big tech;north of toronto;timmins thunder bay","NumberOfPages":"336","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCobalt\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic story of a mostly forgotten town. From the silver screen to Silicon Valley, from the Guggenheims to the Montreal Canadiens, from the predatory capitalism of the Gilded Age to the Cold War to the globalized mining industry of the twenty-first century, the power unleashed in Cobalt more than a century ago continues to reverberate in Canada and the world. It is a cautionary tale of a land and economy based on resource extraction, and, as a northerner, I was at once elevated and infuriated by the events recounted so masterfully in this book. With \u003cem\u003eCobalt\u003c\/em\u003e, Charlie Angus has hit paydirt.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"James Daschuk, author of Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eFantastic! Gripping! A page-turner. In telling the story of Cobalt, Ontario, Charlie Angus has told the story of Canada: the rapacious search for easy wealth, the plunder of nature and Indigenous lands, the abuse of women and ethnic minorities, and the creation of a Canadian mining industry still leaving its terrible footprint in the Global South. But \u003cem\u003eCobalt\u003c\/em\u003e is also the story of resistance and reconciliation; the birth of union power and the rights of working people; the collective fight for health care, education, and social security for all; and the pursuit of justice. The book is filled with great stories, larger-than-life characters, and rich history. 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Charlie Angus uncovers how Canada’s mining dominance feeds the world’s hunger for cobalt, a mineral with a horrific present and troubled history.
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A very needed endeavour at a time of fast geopolitical changes with smart analysis and engaging writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Karoline Kan, author of Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China, and reporter, Bloomberg","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003eA vivid, perspicacious and ultimately disillusioned book about the current direction of China. This is the deeply informed account of a talented reporter from a middle power, Canada; one that explores a rising China’s fitful relations with a wide range of countries, and reveals what’s left of its domestic reforms as being driven by an obsession with ever greater control. \u003cem \u003eChina Unbound\u003c\/em\u003e delivers, at the same time, an urgent and much-needed caution against xenophobia toward Chinese people at a time of growing tensions with a new superpower.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Howard W. 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Chiu tells gripping stories of influence operations in such disparate places as Australia, Canada, the US, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Russia … Chiu’s stories demonstrate in human terms just how formidable a task it will be to put the US and China on any kind of cooperative path.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eChiu’s book is very well written and researched, with plenty of firsthand accounts from the author. 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China Unbound
While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power.
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Soft as Bones
A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing
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Trying to uncover their plans, Dawn follows increasingly sinister leads until the lines between this world and the next, now and then, and right and wrong begin to blur and dissolve. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat unfolds is an eerie, incisive, and at times darkly funny horror novel about a young Indigenous woman reckoning with trauma and violence, loss and reclamation in an unsettling world where spirit realms entwine with the living—and where it is humans who carry out the truly monstrous acts.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487011888","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487011888\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Spiderline","MetaKeywords":"katherena vermette;the break;the strangers","NumberOfPages":"256","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eWell written, creepy, frustrating, and puzzling. There may be violence in this novel, but there’s nothing ordinary about it.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Drew Hayden Taylor, author of Take Us to Your Chief","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eWhat a book! It’s utterly enthralling and unsettling to your bones. A wonderful haunt that creeps into your psyche in the best possible way. I feel like I know Dawn, which only makes the story creepier. A tremendous debut, and I can’t wait to read more.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Jesse Wente, author of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eAn Ordinary Violence \u003c\/em\u003eby Adriana Chartrand is a compelling read that rockets off the page. From the first chapter, I was hooked and gleefully followed Dawn as she moved around the spaces she used to call home to figure out her new reality. The writing is poetic, truthful, and you can tell that Adriana has written a story from her heart. This book will be sure to surprise its readers!\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Francine Cunningham, author of God Isn’t Here Today","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eAn Ordinary Violence \u003c\/em\u003eis surely a gripping and haunting novel, one that will hold you from the first word to the last, but what makes it so potent and memorable is the way Adriana Chartrand tells this story with such grace and humility. There is horror, and then there is \u003cem \u003ehorror\u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cem \u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e has both. This is an unforgettable novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eAdriana Chartrand’s \u003cem \u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e is a hallucinatory slow-burn chiller, sharply observed and heartfelt in its depiction of family ties that bind like strips of wet rawhide. Dawn returns to her hometown to find it is in the grip of something uncanny and malevolent. As she visits old friends and familiar places, she grapples with ghosts from the past and demons on the rise to save her struggling father, her wayward brother, and herself. With this fresh and fearsome look at the contemporary Indigenous experience, Chartrand emerges at the forefront of our newest literary voices.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother and RED X","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping debut novel that bewilders in the best way possible. Adriana Chartrand sparks a fire on the first page that steadily burns into a tremendous literary spectacle that transcends genre. I was riveted by the story and thoroughly impressed by the writing. This novel will stay with me for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Turning Leaves","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003eAn unsettling, lyrical, slow-burn of a novel that combines the best elements of atmosphere and horror. Weaving together a history of violence with spirituality and the supernatural, Chartrand has achieved something special here, a cacophony of style and genre that displays the immeasurable potential of Indigenous storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"David A. 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This book seamlessly blends classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is now an undeniable explosion of spectacular Indigenous content in mainstream arts, culture, and entertainment, with movies like \u003cem\u003ePrey\u003c\/em\u003e and TV shows like \u003cem\u003eReservation Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRutherford Falls\u003c\/em\u003e. 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An Ordinary Violence
A chilling horror novel about a young Indigenous woman haunted by the oppressive legacies of colonization.
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His work has strongly focused on his own family history, as well as supporting other Indigenous writers with the two anthologies he has edited. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnansi is using the beautifully illustrated cover from the Quebec edition, with details used for interior illustrations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWinner of the 2020 Prix France-Québec; winner of the 2021 Combat nationale des livres (“Battle of the Books,” the French-language equivalent of Canada Reads); winner of the 2020 VLEEL Award; shortlisted for the 2020 Jacques La Carrière Award.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e was a bestseller in French-language Canada in 2020 and has sold over 100,000 copies. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor is Innu from Mashteuiatsh. His work has strongly focused on his own family history, as well as supporting other Indigenous writers with the two anthologies he has edited. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnansi is using the beautifully illustrated cover from the Quebec edition, with details used for interior illustrations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"An admirable book. Jean makes us feel the loss experienced by Quebec’s Innu community through a highly personal story … \u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a reminder to listen to your elders, heed the lessons of the past, and question what is done in the name of progress.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMontreal Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"There is no escaping the history of this country, but that does not make this story a tragedy. 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A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.
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But with his signature wit, critical candour, and empathy, Abley’s older self offers context and the wisdom of hindsight. An absorbing portrait of regions in rapid transformation and a couple of young outsiders bemused by hospitality, sights and sounds they encounter on their trip of a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Shauna Singh Baldwin, author of What the Body Remembers and The Tiger Claw","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eOpen this book and you'll get wafts of sandalwood and spices, of sun-baked roads and thumb-worn pages, and a touch of hippie sweat. Mark Abley's \u003cem \u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e is a gauge of how people have shaped the world and how the world shaped a wide-eyed poet. There's nostalgia, humour, and melancholy throughout this story, warm and honestly told. And as much as it is a look at how a young man changed, how relationships and experience can sometimes make the past seem foreign, I felt the older man very much alive in this — not so much a tale of someone looking back at a former self but of someone eloquently showing that if we keep our desire to search and express, the best parts of youth don't die.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Colin McAdam, author of A Beautiful Truth and Black Dove","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAppeals to an interest in the 1970s counterculture in South Asia, for example the Netflix drama series The Serpent, which is based on the true story of serial killer and fraudster Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists travelling the hippie trail during the 1970s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers a portrait of South Asian culture and society before the Iranian Revolution, before the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppeals to Boomer nostalgia for lost youth and simpler times.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreates a vicarious travel experience for the reader in the time of COVID-19.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAppeals to an interest in the 1970s counterculture in South Asia, for example the Netflix drama series The Serpent, which is based on the true story of serial killer and fraudster Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists travelling the hippie trail during the 1970s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers a portrait of South Asian culture and society before the Iranian Revolution, before the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppeals to Boomer nostalgia for lost youth and simpler times.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreates a vicarious travel experience for the reader in the time of COVID-19.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eReaders will marvel at this nostalgic travelogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eProviding an intimate glimpse of far-flung regions during times of change, just before some regions became inaccessible to Westerners … An engrossing travelogue with introductions to the Middle East and Central Asia, \u003cem \u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e is nostalgic and thoughtful—a paean and a lament for a time long gone.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eA book often worthy of comparison with such enduring classics of travel literature as Patrick Leigh Fermor’s \u003cem \u003eBetween The Woods And The Water \u003c\/em\u003eand Bruce Chatwin’s \u003cem \u003eIn Patagonia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eA riveting read … vivid and thoughtful.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eAbley masterfully navigates his acknowledgement of his innocent self as a foundation for the book while introducing witty and philosophical remarks that allow the reader to reevaluate the authority of the narrative lens. [\u003cem\u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e]\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis a remarkable time capsule of culture and circumstance wrapped up in an enticing story.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"McGill Tribune","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003eAbley’s story is simultaneously immediate and retrospective. The journals he kept during his travels offer scenes of vivid detail, while the distance traveled in time allows him to see ironies his 22-year-old self could not have fathomed. The past was a strange, bewildering time—but time itself is strange and bewildering … The blessing of this book is that Mr. Abley’s curiosity and compassion were not lost along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Wall Street Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003eA fascinating chronicle … \u003cem\u003eStrange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail\u003c\/em\u003e charts the dissipation of hopes at the end of an era.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003eGorgeous and lyrical … \u003cem \u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e is … a meditation on the nature of memory, time and self-knowledge, as well as an account of a region on the brink of turmoil … There is poetry on every page.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eA poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2023-02-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eA poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Strange Bewildering Time
A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.
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Twenty-First Century Capitalism
In his 1992 CBC Massey Lectures, economist Robert Heilbroner explores capitalism as both an economic system and a political order.
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This Accident of Being Lost
A knife-sharp collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
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The Librarianist
A new novel from bestselling author Patrick deWitt explores the life of an ordinary man whose world is turned upside down by a chance encounter.
