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Panoramic yet intimate, they enact a kind of investigative surgery, each one plunging beneath the surface of a situation and penetrating it to the cellular level before re-emerging only a few minutes or hours later to reveal the context surrounding what has come to pass.” — \u003cem\u003eEVENT Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A deeply felt portrait of a particular place and its people … The stark, protean beauty of Shidmehr’s writing recalls the shape-shifting work of Denis Johnson’s collection Jesus’ Son … Shidmehr’s is a necessary, feminist voice that is at once defiant and humbling.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Iran is a complicated country with thousands of years of history. In \u003cem\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/em\u003e, with a deft hand, Nilofar Shidmehr takes us through the suffering of its people over the last four decades. An important book that sheds light on how a people can survive their darkest years.” — Marina Nemat, author of \u003cem\u003ePrisoner of Tehran\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Shidmehr narrates the lives of her characters with as much fluid intensity and grace as they are lived.” — Musharraf Ali Farooqi, author of \u003cem\u003eBetween Clay and Dust\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“These complex and intimate stories of Iranian women are like nothing I’ve ever read before. Nilofar Shidmehr’s perspective is wise, unique, and compelling.” — Farzana Doctor, author of \u003cem\u003eAll Inclusive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/em\u003e weaves rich and complex stories spanning decades of Iran’s contemporary history and provides an intimate glimpse of lives scattered across different worlds. The stories of the characters in these pages speak to the universal experience of love, loss, and longing.” — Payam Akhavan, author of \u003cem\u003eIn Search of a Better World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A stunningly intimate portrait of the lives of Iranian women. Tenderly observed and hauntingly portrayed, Nilofar Shidmehr’s stories of love, loss, and exile shine with a rare grace.” — Ausma Zehanat Khan, author of \u003cem\u003eAmong the Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Nilofar Shidmehr is a master storyteller. \u003cem\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/em\u003e shows girls and women at the intersection of place and time during pre- and post-revolutionary Iran. Each of these carefully examined lives is a fierce flame that will startle and burn in the memory long after you’ve finished this book.” — Maureen Medved, author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Each story in \u003cem\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/em\u003e is like a new window into Iran’s complex post-revolutionary history, its hardships as well as its beauties, its griefs as well as its unwavering will to survive. A touching, fascinating read.” — Sahar Delijani, author of \u003cem\u003eChildren of the Jacaranda Tree\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Nilofar Shidmehr’s collection of short stories is accurately titled. The divided loyalties that torment these Persian women, whether they are still living in Iran or have emigrated to Canada, is her painful subject matter, and Shidmehr examines every nuance of it in fiction that is fierce, meticulously observed, beautifully crafted, and authoritative. A stunning work.” — Keith Maillard, author of \u003cem\u003eGloria and Twin Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Nilofar Shidmehr offers to readers deep stories of complex Iranian women characters. They are compassionate, strong, and determined. This is a beautifully written collection with poetic language.” — Monia Mazigh, author of \u003cem\u003eHope Has Two Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Shidmehr’s intimate tone adds a special poignancy to these stories of women harbouring secrets.” — Rabindranath Maharaj, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Amazing Absorbing Boy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In bold and uncompromising prose, Shidmehr’s stories move between Iran and Canada, and compel us to reflect on complex issues of class, gender, and racial inequities.” — Nima Naghibi, author of \u003cem\u003eWomen Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR NILOFAR SHIDMEHR AND \u003cem\u003eSHIRIN AND SALT MAN\u003c\/em\u003e (collected poems)\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prizes)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR NILOFAR SHIDMEHR AND \u003cem\u003eBETWEEN LIVES\u003c\/em\u003e (collected poems)\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“These poems speak plainly of mothers, of daughters, of lovers, but always beneath each simple story is the pulse of an intelligent, sensuous desire. These poems are feminist, moist, fragrant! Each word bursts, ripe in the mouth, like pomegranate.” — Sonnet L’Abbé, author of \u003cem\u003eKillarnoe and A Strange Relief\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Shidmehr’s direct voice and unflinching gaze put her among such great activist poets as Martín Espada, Dionne Brand, and Pablo Neruda. With a clear gaze and arresting imagery, Shidmehr brings to light the violence and injustice of women’s lives in Iran and in the diaspora. Fully wrought and deeply personal, this is a necessary book by an accomplished writer.” — Elizabeth Bachinsky, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hottest Summer in Recorded History and I Don’t Feel So Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“These poems are the untold stories of contemporary Persian women’s lives, lives portrayed with intimacy and lyricism, despite their subjugation. These are poetic meditations that only a poet simultaneously intimate with a place, and exiled from it, can offer.” — Rachel Rose, author of the award-winning collection \u003cem\u003eSong \u0026 Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Each story in \u003cem\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/em\u003e is like a new window into Iran’s complex post-revolutionary history, its hardships as well as its beauties, its griefs as well as its unwavering will to survive. A touching, fascinating read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Each story in \u003cem\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/em\u003e is like a new window into Iran’s complex post-revolutionary history, its hardships as well as its beauties, its griefs as well as its unwavering will to survive. A touching, fascinating read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eI arrive in Tehran two days after my brother called to inform me about my father’s death. “A car hit Papa,” Milaad said, his voice cracking like phone static. “It happened close to his home. He died on the spot. The driver fled the scene — we couldn’t find him. There is also something else, which I’ll tell you when I’ll see you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThankfully, Milaad accompanies Maman to meet me at the airport. Maman and I had a fight on the phone six months ago and we haven’t talked since. That was the night I came back from Paris, the last place I saw my father alive. Our squabble doesn’t matter now. I am here to be with my mother during the forty-day mourning period. I might even stay longer — for six months, a year, or, who knows, the rest of my life — if Maman and I can get along now that the source of our separation is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor does it matter that my mother wrongly accused me of siding with my father. In truth, Papa and I had a row at the end of our trip and he accused me of the exactly the same thing: of supporting her. This is what our parents did to me and Milaad all our lives. Each wanted us in their camp when they fought with each other. And once they made peace, they would divide their children between them. Milaad was hers and I was his.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy situation was much worse than my brother’s during the times when our parents quarreled. As a girl, I was supposed to side with my mother. This wouldn’t have been difficult, if her true reason for being angry was that my father was a miser. We lived very close to poverty because the only money that came into the home was from our mother’s meager salary. Papa used all of his money to buy property. However, the real reason behind my mother’s anger was to control my father and keep him, like Milaad, under her thumb. I believed my father should have his independence as much as I wanted to have mine. I wanted to have freedom of association — to like, love, and assemble with whomever I chose, including my aunt Raazi, Papa’s younger sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntering the arrivals area and dragging my suitcase behind me, I look around for my mother and see her, along with Milaad, walking toward me. In her black winter coat, slacks, and wimple hijab, she looks slim and miserable. I speed up and we meet halfway. She throws herself into my embrace and wails. “You see, Maana, your mother is a widow now.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople standing nearby look at us with compassion. “Sorry for your loss,” they whisper as they pass. The other passengers laugh with joy as they reunite with their loved ones. Their families, dressed mostly in bright colors, shower them with flowers and kisses. I pass Maman a clean napkin I’ve saved for my own crying and hold her until her sobbing subsides.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\"A deeply felt portrait of a particular place and its people . . . The stark, protean beauty of Shidmehr’s writing recalls the shape-shifting work of Denis Johnson’s collection Jesus’ Son . . . 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Divided Loyalties
A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.
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Zalika Reid-Benta is a masterful storyteller with a light touch, a photographic recall, and a pitch-perfect ear for the ephemera we’d like to think of as youthful, but just can’t seem to shake. This is an unforgettable debut.” — Paul Beatty, Booker Prize–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Zalika Reid-Benta announces herself as an enormous voice for the coming decade (and one that is desperately needed). Not all must-read books are this enjoyable.” — Gary Shteyngart, author of \u003cem\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eLake Success\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Each story in \u003cem\u003eFrying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e is achingly poignant, insightful, and funny; each a gem unto itself. Ms. Reid-Benta’s fully sympathetic protagonist, Kara Davis, is a girl who belongs to neither Canada nor Jamaica, despite the fact that both places are ‘home.’ Her family — loving, flawed, and wickedly at odds with one another — all demand her loyalty, and her loyal friends aren’t friends at all. As a collection, these stunning stories create a multi-faceted jewel of a book.” — Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Scenic Route \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eRabbits for Food\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Zalika Reid-Benta’s first book — by turns effortless, vivid, funny, sad, and genuinely like being there — is as shiny as they come. Her spot-on capture of youthful aspiration, folly, and how family members tend to understand one another only in fragments make these stories a real pleasure — full of recognition, humour, and keenly observed lives in the here and now. \u003cem\u003eFrying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e,\u003c\/strong\u003e a window into the world of growing upward and onward inside and outside family ties, is an absolute gem.” — Janice Galloway, author of \u003cem\u003eClara \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAll Made Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFrying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of linked short stories tracing the path of a Jamaican Canadian girl in Toronto from childhood to the beginning of her adult life. The narrator struggles with her mother, her grandparents, her friends, and herself, seeking understanding of who she is meant to be, in her own eyes and the eyes of the world, which are not always the same thing. The book evokes what it feels like to grow up, to want, to walk in the snow, and to move away from the ones you love because you must. These stories evoke the complexity of a person while also, with equal complexity, evoking a neighbourhood (Eglinton West) over time: shifting, complicated, many peopled, loved.” — Toronto Book Awards Jury Citation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFrying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e … brims with wit and compassion.” — \u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reid-Benta is a natural storyteller … This splendid collection marks her as a writer to watch.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is the book I’ve been waiting to read my entire life on the diasporic Caribbean experience. The writing is sharp, intelligent, and everything you’d expect from a talented Jamaican writer. I honestly love this book.” — Symeon Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These stories are readable and relatable. They hit the sweet spot between having something to say and still being the kind of read you can immerse yourself in, a rare combination.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFrying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e deftly chips away at white dismissals of privilege, obscuring the lines between short story and novel … It documents a unique and complex cultural space that’s under threat, while acknowledging the challenges of living a hyphenated life. It reminds us that individuals remain bound to their cultural experience?—?their quirks and fixations stubbornly wrapped up as metaphorical leftovers.” — \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFrying Plantain \u003c\/em\u003eis an exceptional collection that … captures the heart of a real-life experience.” — \u003cem\u003eBitch Media\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Incisive and sharp.” — \u003cem\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reid-Benta’s writing is clear, precise, and infused with emotional depth. The characters are complex and well developed – comforting in their familiarity and frustrating in their stubbornness. Reid-Benta masterfully uses Kara’s everyday life to highlight the intimate inner workings of her characters, their family dysfunction, and the juxtaposition of Canadian and Jamaican identities.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An outstanding debut.” —\u003cem\u003eStylist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tackling big issues including race, class, and identity, these interlinked stories share a strong emphasis on the intergenerational relationships — and pressures — many can feel. Zalika’s debut novel really is set to be a modern classic.” —\u003cem\u003eHappiful\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reid-Benta’s beautifully written debut follows Kara Davis as she makes her way in Toronto’s Little Jamaica.” —\u003cem\u003e i\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A great debut.” —\u003cem\u003ePrima\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reid-Benta has a playwright or screenwriter’s eye for the way bodies operate in space, and how power plays out among them.” — \u003cem\u003eArts Desk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Each story in Frying Plantain is achingly poignant, insightful, and funny; each a gem unto itself. Ms. Reid-Benta’s fully sympathetic protagonist, Kara Davis, is a girl who belongs to neither Canada nor Jamaica, despite the fact that both places are ‘home.’ Her family — loving, flawed, and wickedly at odds with one another — all demand her loyalty, and her loyal friends aren’t friends at all. 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I wanted to avoid a repeat of those looks, so I bit down on my finger to push the scream back down my throat.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Only two days before I’d squealed when Rodney, who was ten like me, had wrung a chicken’s neck without warning; the jerk of his hands and the quick snap of the bone had made me fall back against the coops behind me. He turned to me after I’d silenced myself and his mouth and nose were twisted up as if he was deciding whether he was irritated with me or contemptuous or just amused.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Ah wah?” he asked. “Yuh nuh cook soup in Canada?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Sure we do,” I said, my voice a mumble. “The chicken is just dead first.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e He didn’t respond, and he didn’t say anything about it in front of our other cousins, but soon after they all treated me with a newfound delicacy. When the girls played Dandy Shandy with their friends they stopped asking me to be in the middle and when all of them climbed trees to pluck ripe mangoes, they no longer hung, loose-limbed, from the branches and tried to convince me to clamber up and join them. For the first three days of my visit, they’d at least tease me, broad smiles stretching their cheeks, and yell down, “This tree frighten yuh like how duppy frighten yuh?” Then they’d let leaves fall from their hands onto my hair and laugh when I tried to pick them out of my plaits. I’d fuss and grumble, piqued at the taunting but grateful for the inclusion, for being thought tough enough to handle the same mockery they inflicted on each other. But after the chicken, they didn’t goad me anymore and they only approached me for games like tag, for games they thought Canadian girls could stomach.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“What’s taking you so long?” My mother came up behind me and instead of waiting for me to answer, leaned forward and peered into the icebox, swallowing hard as she did. “Great,” she whispered. “Are you going to be traumatized by this?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I didn’t quite know what she meant — but I felt like the right answer was no, so I shook my head. My mother was like my cousins. I hadn’t seen her butcher any animals, but back home she stepped on spiders without flinching, she cussed out men who tried to reach for her in the street, and I couldn’t bear her scoffing at me for screaming at a pig’s head.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Eloise!” Nana called. My grandmother came into the kitchen from the backyard and stood next to us, her hands on her hips. The deep arch in her back made her breasts and belly protrude, and the way she stood with her legs apart reminded me of a pigeon.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I hear Auntie call out she want a drink from the fridge. That there is the freezer yuh nuh want that. Yuh know wah Bredda put in there? Kara canna see that, she nuh raise up for it.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I closed the lid,” said my mother. “Anyway, it was a pig’s head. It’s not like she saw the pig get slaughtered. She’s fine.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Kara’s a soft one. She canna handle these things.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I felt my mother take a deep breath in and I suddenly became aware of all the exposed knives in the kitchen and wondered if there was any way I could hide them without being noticed. We were only here for ten days and my mother and Nana had already gotten into two fights — one in the airport on the day we landed, the other two nights after — and Auntie had threatened to set the dogs on them if they didn’t calm down.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Mi thought Canada was supposed fi be a civilized place, how yuh two fight like the dogs them? Cha.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I wondered if all daughters fought with their mothers this way when they grew up and started to tear up just thinking about it. Nana looked at me.\u003cbr\/\u003e “See? She ah cry about the head.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “It’s not about the head,” said my mother. “She just cries over anything.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Like I say. She a soft chile.” \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"These stories are readable and relatable. 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Frying Plantain
Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.
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The difficult secrets shared by mothers and daughters are universal in this thoroughly imagined narrative in which a Canadian story is, necessarily, a story of the world.\" — Kim Echlin, author of \u003cem\u003eUnder the Visible Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Monia Mazigh's second novel is an engaging book in which choices abound for young Muslim women.\" — \u003cem\u003eThe Ottawa Citizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Both readable and relevant, especially since the reverberations of the Jasmine Revolution are still being felt today.\" — \u003cem\u003eThe Winnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"An important work of fiction.\" — \u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Monia Mazigh’s latest novel takes readers through a cycle of hope, uprising, despair and hope again in a story of two girls awakened by civil unrest.\" — \u003cem\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Mazigh possesses the moral authority to write this novel, as anyone who knows her personal biography can attest, and thus her words are not just empty rhetoric or arm-chair sociology, but born out of personal struggle — her own anger and courage — and yet emerging from that suffering as a voice of freedom and passion for those who will follow after her.\" — Canadian Dream\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"I enjoyed the poetry of two young women being exposed to riots in the same country but at two different times and realizing they need to fight back against the injustice of it.\" — \u003cem\u003eNiagara This Week\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHope Has Two Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e adds significantly to a growing body of literature by and about Muslim women and sheds fresh light on a country still experiencing its own coming of age.\" — \u003cem\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe two girls were called Reem and Farah. 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Hope Has Two Daughters
Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.
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I Am Ariel Sharon
I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.
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I Hid My Voice
The story of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran, based on real events.
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This book will be appreciated by all who understand and reject the evils of irrational discrimination and applaud the efforts of those determined to end it.” — Justice Richard J. Goldstone, retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and first Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“[Akhavan’s] standing as the 2017 Massey Lecturer [is] not only deserved but overdue. The lecture’s companion book, \u003cem\u003eIn Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e is more than a treatise on rights: it’s also effectively an autobiography, showing how a crusade with global implications had its roots in personal experience.” — Montreal Gazette\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Such an illustrious career, played out against the backdrop of some of humanity’s darkest moments, makes for a revelatory, heartbreaking, and often challenging narrative.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Akhavan’s message never fails to bring our inextricable interdependence to the table, and he isn’t afraid to speak the truth he finds is needed to liberate.” — \u003cem\u003eVUE Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Beyond Payam Akhavan's impressive professional and academic distinctions as a former UN prosecutor lies a deep and enduring dedication to the pursuit of justice on the international stage. \u003cem\u003eIn Search of a Better World\u003c\/em\u003e is a revelation of the some of the darkest moments of the world’s recent history and a vital and enduring odyssey of hope for the future. 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An essential analysis of the major human rights struggles of our times by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer and former UN prosecutor.
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Everything I’ve put aside, thinking it doesn’t mean anything, is actually because I am a woman. I realized how unfair it has been all this time.” — Sooyoung, member of K-pop group Girls’ Generation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sensation when it appeared in South Korea in 2016, this novel recounts, in the dispassionate language of a case history, the descent into madness of a young wife and mother — a Korean Everywoman whose plight illuminates the effects of a sexist society.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A cultural call to arms … Like Bong Joon Ho’s Academy Award–winning film \u003cem\u003eParasite\u003c\/em\u003e, which unleashed a debate about class disparities in South Korea, Cho’s novel was treated as a social treatise as much as a work of art.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This novel is about the banality of the evil that is systemic misogyny … Upon its publication in South Korea in 2016, the book, which sold more than a million copies, had an \u003cem\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/em\u003e effect, propelling a feminist wave. It’s easy to see why.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As she unveils the lifetime of misogyny her protagonist has faced in South Korea, Cho Nam-Joo points to a universal dialogue around discrimination, hopelessness, and fear.” — \u003cem\u003eTime \u003c\/em\u003eMagazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cho’s novel became a rallying cry for South Korean women … While Cho’s focus is on South Korean culture, the normalisation of violence and harassment in the book seems all too familiar.” — \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cho Nam-joo’s third novel has been hailed as giving voice to the unheard everywoman … [\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung\u003c\/em\u003e]has become both a touchstone for a conversation around feminism and gender and a lightning rod for anti-feminists who view the book as inciting misandry … [The book] has touched a nerve globally … The character of Kim Jiyoung can be seen as a sort of sacrifice: a protagonist who is broken in order to open up a channel for collective rage. Along with other socially critical narratives to come out of Korea, such as Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning film, \u003cem\u003eParasite\u003c\/em\u003e, her story could change the bigger one.” — \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Cho Nam-joo] pulls no punches in her delineation of cultural misogyny … The author’s particular achievement is in blending political and stylistic concerns in a cool tone carefully captured in Jamie Chang’s translation … Cho’s moving, witty, and powerful novel forces us to face our reality, in which one woman is seen, pretty much, as interchangeable with any other.” — \u003cem\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/em\u003e (U.K.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The novel’s virtue lies in its broad social impact … To read the book is to imagine being a restive, aggrieved millennial and to trace [Kim Jiyoung’s] path through everyday misogyny.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e has much in common with Han Kang’s\u003cem\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/em\u003e.” — \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A clear-eyed look at damage done.” — \u003cem\u003eStraits Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this fine — and beautifully translated — biography of a fictional Korean woman, we encounter the real experiences of many women around the world.” — \u003cem\u003eSpectator \u003c\/em\u003e(U.K.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This tale has immediate resonance … Cho’s matter-of-fact delivery underscores the pervasive gender imbalance, while just containing the empathic rage.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book was fresh and shocking to me. It traces the life cycle of an ordinary, typical woman from her school days and working life to marriage and childbirth. At the same time, it shows the history of the women’s policies in Korea.” — Lee Myung-sun, President of the Korean Women’s Development Institute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I loved this novel. Kim Jiyoung’s life is made to seem at once totally commonplace, and nightmarishly over-the-top. As you read, you constantly feel that revolutionary, electric shift, between commonplace and nightmarish. This kind of imaginative work is so important and so powerful. I hope this book sells a million more copies.” — Elif Batuman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Written with unbearably clear-sighted perspective, \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e possesses the urgency and immediacy of the scariest horror thriller — except that this is not technically horror, but something closer to reportage. I broke out in a sweat reading this book.” — Ling Ma, author of\u003cem\u003e Severance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book writes about the life of a woman living in Korea: the despair of an ordinary woman, which she experiences without complaint. The fact that it’s not about ‘someone special’ is extremely shocking, but also highly relatable.” — Sayaka Murata, author of \u003cem\u003eConvenience Store Woman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book constantly resonated with me — it would be better to say that there’s nothing we don’t know about the book than there are things we do know.” — Mieko Kawakami, Akutagawa Prize–winning writer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fierce and powerful look at modern-day Korean society through the lens of a refreshingly new protagonist. Born in 1982, Kim Jiyoung wins us over with her tolerance and strength. She is every one of us who has been invisible.” — Weike Wang, author of \u003cem\u003eChemistry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What any woman might have experienced at least once in her life is calmly portrayed in every two or three pages of the book. The small and big injustices and irregularities — it’s a curse only women are subjected to … The writer of the novel is — or was — exhausted in Korea, for the same reason as I am. The woman who, just like me, bears all the struggles for nothing. Just learning about this alone is enough to make the book a worthwhile read.” — Amamiya Karin, author of \u003cem\u003eAngry Seoul\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is strange that tears welled up in my eyes because this story is not at all unfamiliar to me. It is my story and also that of innumerable women of the same generation who grew up under subtle discrimination and violence.” —Choe Jieun, journalist, \u003cem\u003eIZE Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The argument that this is a must-read book for Koreans didn’t sound hollow to me because as I was reading the book, I could understand a little what it is like to live as a woman in Korea.” —Jeong Hyeongmo, culture editor, \u003cem\u003eJoongAng Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What’s exceptional about this book is how unexceptional its main character is: she is living the typical life of a Korean woman. It’s a testimony of subtle hardship and everyday discrimination. You’ll probably see something you recognize in there too.” — \u003cem\u003eLitHub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] spirited debut … The brutal, bleak conclusion demonstrates Cho’s mastery of irony. This will stir readers to consider the myriad factors that diminish women’s rights throughout the world.” –– \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book’s strength lies in how succinctly Cho captures the relentless buildup of sexism and gender discrimination over the course of one woman’s life … The story perfectly captures misogynies large and small that will be recognizable to many.” — \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cho deploys a formal, almost clinical prose style that subtly but effectively reinforces the challenges Korean women like Jiyoung endure throughout their lives in multiple contexts — familial, educational, and work-related … \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung \u003c\/em\u003eeffectively communicates the realities Korean women face, especially discrimination in the workplace, rampant sexual harassment, and the nearly impossible challenge of balancing motherhood with career aspirations.” — \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Uncompromising and powerful, [\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e] shows hidden misogyny in sharp relief.” — \u003cem\u003eBookseller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Though she’s a fictional character, Kim Jiyoung is a symbolic figure in Korea. It seems her status will be even more elevated as novel \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e recently became a million seller.” — \u003cem\u003eKorea Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not only a riveting read, but a mirror to society that is daring enough to portray us as faceless as we truly are.” — \u003cem\u003eKorean Literature Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It has touched the hearts of readers of diverse backgrounds across Korea for its subtleness. Rather than depicting extreme situations for the sake of the plot, the book calmly describes common experiences that happen in the everyday lives of Korean women — things that have always been there, but have never been thought of as problematic until recently.” — \u003cem\u003eKorea Joon Gang Daily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Irene, a member of the girl group Red Velvet, faced an online backlash after she told a fan that she’d been reading \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that quietly chronicles all the small ways women experience being ‘less than’ in Korea … [and] illustrates the injustices faced by Korean women.” — \u003cem\u003eQuartz Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Published without fanfare … the book sales rose steeply through word of mouth, and now it is the best-selling fiction. It is used as teaching material for some universities’ sociology courses, and Roh Hoe-chan, the floor leader of the Justice Party, gave the book as a gift to President Moon Jae-in … \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e became a social phenomenon.” —\u003cem\u003eHankook Ilbo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e is an issues-driven novel … It was also the most talked about book in the spring of 2017.” —\u003cem\u003eChosun Pub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chilling.” — \u003cem\u003eDomino \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compelling … A sharp punch.” — \u003cem\u003eTimes of London\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e’s] debut in North America was highly anticipated, and now that I’ve read this slim novel, I see what all the fuss was about.” — \u003cem\u003eI’ve Read This\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"Cho’s novel became a rallying cry for South Korean women . . . While Cho’s focus is on South Korean culture, the normalisation of violence and harassment in the book seems all too familiar.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"The novel’s virtue lies in its broad social impact . . . To read the book is to imagine being a restive, aggrieved millennial and to trace [Kim Jiyoung’s] path through everyday misogyny.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2":"This tale has immediate resonance . . . Cho’s matter-of-fact delivery underscores the pervasive gender imbalance, while just containing the empathic rage.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_3":"This tale has immediate resonance . . . Cho’s matter-of-fact delivery underscores the pervasive gender imbalance, while just containing the empathic rage.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_4":"This novel is about the banality of the evil that is systemic misogyny . . . Upon its publication in South Korea in 2016, the book, which sold more than a million copies, had an Uncle Tom’s Cabin effect, propelling a feminist wave. 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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.
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Kim's Convenience
The smash hit play, Kim’s Convenience tells the story of one Korean family struggling to face the future amidst the bitter memories of their past.
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Mirrors and Mirages
In the spirit of Joy Luck Club, Mirrors and Mirages is an intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters.
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Narinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree)
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes an extraordinary story of one young Omani woman building a life for herself in Britain.
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These poems do the necessary work of negotiating with the heart-killing present from which we imagine and make Indigenous futures. Every line feels like a possible way out of despair.” — Elissa Washuta, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Body Is a Book of Rules\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“‘I believe I exist. \/ To live, one can be neither \/ more nor less hungry than that.’ How grateful I am that Billy-Ray Belcourt and these poems believe in themselves enough to exist. With prodigious clarity, this work moves swiftly amongst theory and prose, longing and lyric, questioning and coping, ‘not dying’ and ‘obsessively apologizing to the moon for all that she has to witness.’ It is not hyperbole to say these poems are brilliant. And so brilliantly, searingly, they live.” — TC Tolbert, author of \u003cem\u003eGephyromania\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting book that dreams a new world — a ‘holy place filled with NDN girls, hair wet with utopia’ — as it simultaneously excoriates the world that ‘is a wound’ and the historic and present modalities of violence against Indigenous peoples under Canadian settler colonialism. Belcourt considers the genocidal nation-state, queerness, and the limits and potential of representation, often through a poetic\/scholarly lineage that includes Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Saidiya Hartman, Anne Boyer, José Esteban Muñoz, Christina Sharpe, and Gwen Benaway, among others. This is the beautiful achievement of NDN Coping Mechanisms: Belcourt conjures a sovereign literary space that refuses white sovereignty and is always already in relation to the ideas of the foremost decolonial poets and thinkers of Turtle Island.” — Mercedes Eng, author of \u003cem\u003ePrison Industrial Complex Explodes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR BILLY-RAY BELCOURT AND \u003cem\u003eTHIS WOUND IS A WORLD\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, Griffin Poetry Prize\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer, Indigenous Voices Award\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Raymond Souster Award\u003cbr \/\u003eA CBC Books Best Poetry Collection of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Blending the resources of love song and elegy, prayer and manifesto, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e shows us poetry at its most intimate and politically necessary. Mindful of tangled lineages and the lingering erasures of settler colonialism, Belcourt crafts poems in which ‘history lays itself bare’ — but only as bare as their speaker’s shapeshifting heart. Belcourt pursues original forms with which to chart the constellations of queerness and Indigeneity, rebellion and survival, desire and embodiedness these poems so fearlessly explore. Between its bold treatment of sexuality and wary anatomy of despair, \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e peels back the layers of feeling and experience to offer, finally, the glimmerings of hope — which only sometimes looks like escape: ‘follow me out the backdoor of the world.’ This electrifying book reminds us that a poem may live twin lives as incantation and inscription, singing from the untamed margins: ‘grieve is the name i give to myself \/ i carve it into the bed frame. \/ i am make-believe. \/ this is an archive. \/ it hurts to be a story.’” — 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize Judges’ Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e is a decolonial wild fire from which the acclaimed writer Billy-Ray Belcourt builds a new world — and it's the brilliant, radiant Indigenous world, I want to live in. His poetics create space out of nothing, unapologetically inhabit that space and then gift it to us with uninhibited love. Belcourt is sovereign genius and \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e redefines poetics as a refusal of colonial erasure, a radical celebration of Indigenous life and our beautiful, intimate rebellion. This is a breathtaking masterpiece. Belcourt has emerged fully formed.” — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, CBC Books\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Belcourt, in a cutting, contemporary idiom, has made himself the urgent fresh voice of his generation.” — \u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This is poetry at its brightest. It is electric, profound, necessary work. Belcourt bends genre, challenging the cage of colonialism through a poetics of intimacy. It is a collection unafraid to ask questions, exploring grief, desire, queer sexuality, and Indigeneity with tender honesty. Belcourt asks us to consider the ways Indigenous bodies can be simultaneously unbound and ‘rendered again,’ how worlds can be made and unmade. These are poems to be returned to again and again with reverence.” — \u003cem\u003ePrism International\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Billy-Ray Belcourt’s poems are full of sound. They are cacophonous enunciations of both the blaring and imperceptible legacies of colonization that resonate in contemporary life.” — CBC Arts\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"I believe I exist. \/ To live, one can be neither \/ more nor less hungry than that.’ How grateful I am that Billy-Ray Belcourt and these poems believe in themselves enough to exist. With prodigious clarity, this work moves swiftly amongst theory and prose, longing and lyric, questioning and coping, ‘not dying’ and ‘obsessively apologizing to the moon for all that she has to witness.’ It is not hyperbole to say these poems are brilliant. 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NDN Coping Mechanisms
The follow-up collection from Griffin Poetry Prize–winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work.
