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It’s all rendered irresistible by Eli Sisters, who narrates with a mixture of melancholy and thoughtfulness . . . After capturing the fireside camps and saloons in perfectly drawn vignettes, deWitt strips these two lethal brothers of more than they ever thought a man could lose. And then, damned if he doesn’t surprise us again with a twilight scene that’s just miraculously lovely.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRon Charles, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Ron Charles","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“A powerfully realized work of narrative fiction . . . the dialogue is sharp as a whip . . . the novel works artfully within its formal boundaries to explore the nature of brotherhood, work, love, greed, loneliness, and personal renewal.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10":"\u003cp\u003e“. . . imaginative and ebullient . . . revels in the hilarious life and times of two gunslingers, Eli and Charlie Sisters.” — \u003cstrong\u003eCaroline Leavitt, \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Caroline Leavitt","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Boston Globe","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e“The Sisters Brothers is a bloody, nightmarish frontier road trip that seems at times like something out of Cormac McCarthy, yet somehow merges laughter and hope with suffering, death and betrayal. [...] Like an alchemist, deWitt has refined and purified the base metals of black comedy and the western to produce literary gold.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBob Armstrong, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Bob Armstrong","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003e“. . . gritty . . . deadpan . . . very comedic . . . opens new doors in the imagination.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Vernon, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"John Vernon","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Times Literary Supplement","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“The Sisters Brothers is a bold, original and powerfully compelling work, grounded in well-drawn characters and a firm hold on narrative. When they say “They don’t write em like that anymore,” they’re wrong.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Wiersema, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Robert Wiersema","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“There never was a more engaging pair of psychopaths than Charlie and Eli Sisters . . . So subtle is deWitt’s prose, so slyly note-perfect his rendition of Eli’s voice in all its earnestly charming nineteenth-century syntax, and so compulsively readable his bleakly funny Western noir story, that readers will stick by Eli even as he grinds his heel into the shattered skull of an already dead prospector.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBrian Bethune, \u003cem\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Brian Bethune","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Fresh, hilariously anti-heroic, often genuinely chilling, and relentlessly compelling. Yes, this is a mighty fine read, and deWitt a mighty fine writer.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Christie, \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Michael Christie","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“The Sisters Brothers confirms Patrick deWitt as one of the most talented young writers around.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Okay, so it does take a Canadian to write a truly great Western novel of daunting, surrealist panache and rooted in unwavering empathy — and that just about sums up the dark, profound achievement which is The Sisters Brothers.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“[Patrick] DeWitt has produced a genre-bending frontier saga that is exciting, funny, and perhaps unexpectedly, moving.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“. . . a lushly voiced picaresque story . . . 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The Sisters Brothers
In this #1 national bestseller, Patrick deWitt spins a violent, lustful, hung-over and humorous odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier.
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The Sisters Brothers (Movie Tie-In Edition)
A new edition to coincide with the release of the major motion picture adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, and John C. Reilly.
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The Slaughterman’s Daughter
A historical adventure story of a woman’s quest to avenge her sister’s honour set in a Jewish shtetl during the final years of the Russian Empire.
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The Truth About Stories
In his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people.
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The Universe Within
Neil Turok's 2012 CBC Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future.
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The Waking Comes Late
A poetry collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us.
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The Withdrawal Method
Haunting, fresh and humorous, Malla's inventive stories reveal the strange and wondrous found in familiar situations.
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Victim Without a Face
The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.
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Over and over again, Conlin masterfully depicts the lush, somehow uncanny splendour of high summer only to chill us with a counterbalancing night world of hidden creatures and terrible human secrets. The results make for mesmerizing reading.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Lynn Coady, author of The Antagonist and Hellgoing","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Watermark is propulsive. These linked stories are gothic dark and sparking with brilliant twists. Characters so vivid you can hear their voices, feel their pulse. Here are deep psychological fractures and betrayals, loss and longing. Adventure and abandon. Conlin’s characters are a splendidly complex; they are sometimes prisoners, and sometimes breaking free. This book is a dangerous joyride.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Lisa Moore, author of Caught and Something for Everyone","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Watermark takes us beyond mere appearances, offering intimate portraits of characters you quickly realize you only think you know. These are powerful stories that tell secrets — that are interested in, and unafraid of, all the messy details that make up a person, a life.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Johanna Skibsrud, author of Quartet for the End of Time and The Sentimentalists","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Conlin’s characters are fierce, lonely, dangerous, and wild. This is the best short story collection I've read in years.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Annabel Lyon, author of Oxygen and The Golden Mean","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCLAIMED AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is the first collection of stories by this highly acclaimed writer of literary fiction. Her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eHeave\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and also received two very prestigious Canadian fiction awards: the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. 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My father made the house himself and we lived in a tent pitched in a meadow surrounded by forest while he built it. My mother told me this. I remember the tent was green and there was a path through the meadow to the house. I loved this path, which cut through the tall grasses. In the meadow, purple vetch threaded up through the grass stems and touched my mother’s round belly. The grasses grew so high they were taller than me, but I could look up and see how they touched my mother’s breasts. I drew pictures on her stomach with icing coloured with beet and carrot juice. Then she’d let me lick it off. The acreage was mostly forest, except for the clearing around a large, rickety barn. They put a sandbox in the clearing where I played with my pail and shovel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was also a path through the woods. It was a twisting path my father had cut through the pines to the clifftop jutting out from the trees over the Bay of Fundy. He called the path “the labyrinth of life.” It snaked through the forest to the perilous brink of the cliff. The path was difficult and winding, with sharp turns where you had to slow down. My father said this was the main purpose of his pathway: everyone was forced to stop hurrying and consider their journey as it unfolded. People needed to be open to sudden turns and trust the way ahead. Being in the moment would take over and time would lose meaning. Before you knew it, you would arrive at your destination, and le voilà, enlightenment, or éclaircissement, as the French Acadians say, when you reached the bench of wisdom! Every age had an awakening, her father said, with those like him, who were called to be its prophets, ushering in the awakening. 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Deeply humane and beautifully wrought, these stories stay in the heart and the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Alix Ohlin, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists Dual Citizens and Inside","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the best books I’ve read this year and one of my all-time favourite short-story collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sharon Bala, bestselling author of The Boat People","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eJack Wang’s \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e is not only a penetrating examination of the Chinese diaspora, it also brilliantly renders its subject in the most deeply resonant universal way, as the yearning for personal identity that drives us all in our shared humanity. This is a remarkable collection of stories, a remarkable work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eJack Wang’s dazzling first collection of stories, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, moves through decades and across continents with rare ease, telling not \u003cem\u003ethe\u003c\/em\u003e story but some of the many stories of the Chinese diaspora in the last century. These stories are so elegantly shaped, so satisfying as individual stories, that their collective power sneaks up on you. There is a quiet and building intensity to the storytelling here, a commitment to chronicling — with deep compassion and a refusal of easy answers — the dignity of human experience against the broader indignities of history. I was moved, heartbroken, and thrilled.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Emily Fridlund, author of the Booker Prize finalist History of Wolves","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “The Night of Broken Glass”\u003cbr \/\u003e A finalist for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, whose jury included Booker Prize winner Marlon James\u003cbr \/\u003ePublished in \u003cem\u003eLet’s Tell This Story Properly: An Anthology of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eNominated by the \u003cem\u003eNew Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e for a 2016 National Magazine Award \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e I met my mother for the first time when I was six. I say “mother” because that was what I was expected to call her, and did, though in fact she was my stepmother. My real mother died of tuberculosis when I was five. A year later my father came home with a new wife. He had been studying international law in Chicago despite already having a Ph.D. in political economics from the University of Munich. While he was gone I received a series of brightly coloured linen postcards of the World’s Fair: the Hall of Science, the Avenue of Flags, the iron lattice towers of the Sky Ride. The theme of the fair was A Century of Progress. That’s where my father met Grace.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eIt was a windless, thick-aired summer day in Changsha when a motorcar saddled with steamer trucks pulled up in front of our house and a woman in a white blouse, wide-legged trousers, and large round sunglasses climbed out. She was beautiful, which made me sad for my mother and scornful of my father, and she looked too fair to be Chinese. As it turned out, she was half Chinese, born of a Chinese father and a German-American mother. That, along with her clothes and her beauty, made her unlike any woman I had ever seen. My father had secured a large two-storey house on the outskirts of town and staffed it with half a dozen servants, all in an effort to make his new wife comfortable, but as soon as they arrived he was stricken by all he had not foreseen. The house had no running water, and despite the need Grace refused to use the privy, which had no seat and emitted at that time of year an audible drone. After pleading with Grace in hushed tones, my father ordered Old Chao into town for a portable commode, a trip of at least three hours. For the rest of the afternoon my new mother paced the courtyard, smoking one Lucky after another, which made her seem feral and caged. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e[…] \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eNeedless to say, Grace was unhappy in China. Though my father had no particular desire to leave, he began to eye the foreign service. When the Governor for whom he worked recommended the post of First Secretary in the Chinese legation in Austria, my father accepted for Grace’s sake. We arrived in Vienna in June of my tenth year, after a three-week voyage on the \u003cem\u003eConte Verde\u003c\/em\u003e through Saigon, Singapore, Madras, Bombay, Aden, and Port Said, and at first everything did seem better. The city was glorious with summer, and everywhere open air orchestras paid homage to the old masters, which made our lives seem set to music. Many nights my parents put on tails and gown and went to balls and receptions, living at last the life for which they were meant. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eBut it wasn’t long before Grace again felt stranded. She could no more distinguish der, die, and das than she could first and second tones. Then, in the spring, German troops goose-stepped through the Ringstrasse, just blocks away from our townhouse. The crowds that greeted them were lusty, adoring, as was I, my schoolboy fantasies of soldiers and guns come to life. My father did not raise his arm but he didn’t stop me from raising mine. That night, in a scene that would soon become commonplace, hoodlums took to the streets, smashing the windows of certain homes and shops. Thereafter, walking to and from school, I passed storefronts marked \u003cem\u003eJude\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNicht arisches Geschaeft\u003c\/em\u003e and blocked by baby-faced men in jackboots and flared helmets. As a visible foreigner and part of the diplomatic corps, my father felt undeterred and often went into these stores despite the piercing glares — and once, an arm held stiffly against his chest. For my mother, annexation was yet another rung of descent in a private tragedy. She chided my father for bringing her to a Nazi-occupied country. His answer: Better the Germans than the Japanese. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eAt the end of October, thousands of Polish-born Jews were rounded up and sent back to Poland. When a seventeen-year-old boy learned that his family was among those languishing at the border, unwanted by either side, he walked into the German Embassy in Paris and pumped five bullets into the viscera of a minor German diplomat. Two days later, Ernst vom Rath died of his wounds. The seething of the Germans, checked so long as their countryman clung to life, would now be unleashed. This was what my father knew when he came home that afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“A collection that announces an important new voice in contemporary fiction … Beyond Vancouver, Shanghai, Vienna, Port Elizabeth, and London, the stories in \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e encompass Tallahassee, Los Angeles, and Boston. Wang is committed to rendering his backdrops accurately; with perfectly presented details, he showcases the disharmony of the Chinese diaspora, as individuals endure salient moments in twentieth-century history and more recent times … \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e shows that Jack Wang is a master of the short story, a writer who has mapped his own space, neither Canadian nor American, nor anywhere else. Each episode in this collection is a moving tribute to its characters as well as an indictment of the ostracism that remains when racist taunts and human failures continue to bedevil the modern world.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Rich and poignant … History lovers and literary buffs will sink joyfully into his moving collection … Wang manages to underscore the importance of cultural heritage while stressing humanity’s common ties … His ability to create vivid and believable settings, in beautiful and readable prose, will deeply move readers.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang is a welcome new voice in Canadian letters … [\u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e] is serious, engaging, well crafted, thought-provoking. Wang clearly has something to say, and this accomplished collection not only says it but also promises a great deal more to come.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrmsby Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Ormsby Review","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang’s extraordinary debut book of stories, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, weaves a path across the world, following the Chinese diaspora over nearly a hundred years. It’s the kind of collection that comes along only once in a while, to be savoured by readers for its sharp, smart portraits of longing, connection, and identity.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, Jack Wang has written an instantly engaging and achingly poignant collection of stories about people struggling to preserve their way of life and seeking stability, connection, and meaning. Focusing on Chinese immigrant experiences, Wang’s stories range freely and easily across many decades and a dizzyingly assortment of geographies. All of Wang’s characters are vividly rendered, their struggles and agonies richly conceived and indelibly portrayed. The writing throughout is atmospheric, highly visual, and peppered with startling and persuasive detail. Long after finishing it, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e lingers in the mind as a compassionate work by a profoundly talented writer who cares deeply about what it means to be human in turbulent times.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDanuta Gleed Literary Award Jury Citation, \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jury Citation","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeName_0":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"CBC Canada Reads","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2020-09-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
We Two Alone
A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.
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Wellwater
The poems in Karen Solie’s sixth collection explore the intersection of cultural, economic, and personal ideas of value.
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Who Will Bury You?
Intimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the people they call their own.
