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This epic novel takes you inside an affluent Jewish family in the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Through him, I learned the importance of traditional Indigenous thinking and approaches to food, which continues to influence and guide the uniqueness of Albertan cuisine today. I’m so happy that Shane and Jennifer have captured these ideas in tawâw for us all to savour. 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Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand’s debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine.
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Josée Bisaillon’s imaginative, vibrant illustrations—rendered in a mix of soft and wax pastels, cut paper, colored pencils, gouache, charcoal and digital art—dance across each double-page spread with a playfulness and simplicity that perfectly complements each poem. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"School Library Connection","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eThese lyrical verses encompass an arc of of emotions for each natural setting.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Canadian Children's Book News","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eThis refreshing series of poems reminds us of the natural world we live in and creates a longing to walk amongst the trees and to lie on one’s back and ponder the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"CM: Canadian Review of Materials","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSometimes I Feel Like a River\u003c\/em\u003e establishes Daniel as a leading author in the mindfulness genre, a growing group of titles focused on helping kids understand their emotions and fall in love with their environments.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003eA gentle call to action to protect and appreciate our environment.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Quebec Library Association","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFollowing the huge success of \u003cem\u003eSometimes I Feel Like a Fox\u003c\/em\u003e, this companion book is a lyrical celebration of our relationship to the natural world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2023-03-07","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","Series":"Sometimes I Feel Like","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFollowing the huge success of \u003cem\u003eSometimes I Feel Like a Fox\u003c\/em\u003e, this companion book is a lyrical celebration of our relationship to the natural world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"8.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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Sometimes I Feel Like a River
Following the huge success of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox, this companion book is a lyrical celebration of our relationship to the natural world.
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No Friend but the Mountains reminds us that no matter how different we may be from one another, whether it’s the colour of our skin, the god we pray to, where we are born, or where we call home, that we have words, language, and literature in common. I celebrate the courage of Boochani, who has pursued this ideal, this love of writing, and the faith in words as a tool to inform, to be a doorway to new and unexpected worlds, challenge tyrannies, and seek justice.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Jennifer Clement","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"Jennifer Clement","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Under atrocious conditions [Behrouz Boochani] has managed to write and publish a record of his experiences (experiences yet to be concluded), a record that will certainly leave his jailers gnashing their teeth . . . No Friend but the Mountains provides a wholly engrossing account of the first four years that Boochani spent on Manus, up to the time when the prison camp was closed and the prisoners resettled elsewhere on the island. Just as absorbing is his analysis of the system that reigns in the camp, a system imposed by the Australian authorities but autonomous in the sense that it holds the jailers as well as the prisoners in its grip . . . [No Friend but the Mountains is] the absorbing record of a life-transforming episode whose effects on his inner self the writer is still trying to plumb.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"J.M. Coetzee","OtherText_Accolades_2":"No Friend but the Mountains deserves a place beside some of the world’s most famous prison narratives and testaments about living in a time of genocide, slavery, and state-sponsored oppression. It brings to mind various literary siblings: the ways in which The Diary of Anne Frank sketched the life of a young girl in the period leading up to her murder in the Holocaust; how Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl painted Harriet Jacobs’s life as a fugitive in the United States; the means by which One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn showed the daily oppression of a man living in a Soviet gulag; how The Autobiography of Malcolm X charted the movement of a man through prison life and into militancy as the most famous Black Muslim in America; and how Martin Luther King Jr. condemned arbitrary imprisonment and racial segregation in The Letter from Birmingham Jail . . . In a time of mounting hysteria and paranoia with regard to the arrival of migrants in developed countries, Behrouz Boochani reminds us that 68.5 million displaced people in the world today are the same as us. 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Film rights have been sold to Aurora Australia.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMELY SUBJECT MATTER — REFUGEES AND FREE PRESS UNDER ATTACK:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe detainment of refugees is a hot-button issue. Boochani’s rare insider’s first-person account is beautifully and poetically told, and symbolic of the realities and circumstances tens of thousands of migrants are living in today. In addition, the reason for his flight from Iran — escaping persecution as a journalist — is more and more common with the increase of autocratic nations: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/feb\/03\/observer-view-on-assad-regime-murder-marie-colvin?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRECENT TALK OF REOPENING THE DETENTION CENTRES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe situation on Manus and Nauru Islands will continue to be in the news throughout the year. On February 13, 2019, the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, threatened to reopen the Manus Island detention centre after a medical evacuation bill — the new legislation sets out the conditions by which sick people on Nauru and Manus can be transferred to Australia for medical treatment. 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We will be approaching PEN International, PEN America, PEN U.K., and PEN Canada for support on this work, and through our efforts in publicizing the book we will also push for the author’s release.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEMAND FOR IMMIGRANT STORIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNever before has there been such interest in immigrant and refugee stories, as demonstrated by the success of story collections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Djamila Ibrahim, Irina Kovalyova, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ayelet Tsabari.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCLAIMED COMPANION FILM:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBehrouz Boochani shot the feature-length documentary \u003cem\u003eChauka, Please Tell Us the Time\u003c\/em\u003e with Arash Kamali Sarvestani on a cellphone at the detention centre. 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I’m grateful this book exists.” — Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia Coverage on and by Behrouz Boochani\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/14\/world\/australia\/behrouz-boochani-refugee.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/nov\/14\/behrouz-boochani-free-voice-manus-island-refugees-new-zealand-australia\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/31\/world\/australia\/behrouz-boochani-victorian-prize-manus-island.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/01\/behrouz-boochani-on-literary-prize-words-still-have-the-power-to-challenge-inhumane-systems\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/pen-international.org\/news\/on-human-rights-day-take-action-for-journalist-behrouz-boochani-stranded-on-manus-island\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.npr.org\/books\/titles\/634881611\/no-friend-but-the-mountains-writing-from-manus-prison\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/oct\/29\/i-returned-to-my-prison-on-manus-island-and-was-stunned-by-what-i-saw\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/aug\/31\/australia-needs-a-moral-revolution\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jun\/20\/our-lives-are-have-become-weapons-in-a-rugged-political-contest\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/australia-s-barbaric-policy-confronted-by-boochani-s-prison-memoir-20180821-p4zyt7.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/no-friend-but-the-mountains-review-behrouz-boochanis-poetic-and-vital-memoir-20180801-h13fuu.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2018\/aug\/02\/behrouz-boochani-manus-island-and-the-book-written-one-text-at-a-time\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au\/news\/politics\/2017\/12\/09\/letter-manus-island\/15127380005617\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/talktojazeera\/inthefield\/2018\/02\/behrouz-boochani-living-limbo-manus-island-180208113527825.html\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com.au\/author\/behrouz-boochani\/\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cdiv \u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Richard Flanagan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that can rightly take its place on the shelf of world prison literature, alongside such diverse works as Oscar Wilde’s \u003cem\u003eDe Profundis\u003c\/em\u003e, Antonio Gramsci’s \u003cem\u003ePrison Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e, Ray Parkin’s \u003cem\u003eInto The Smother\u003c\/em\u003e, Wole Soyinka’s \u003cem\u003eThe Man Died\u003c\/em\u003e, and Martin Luther King Jr’s \u003cem\u003eLetter from Birmingham Jail\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in Farsi by a young Kurdish poet, Behrouz Boochani, in situations of prolonged duress, torment, and suffering, the very existence of this book is a miracle of courage and creative tenacity. It was written not on paper or a computer, but thumbed on a phone and smuggled out of Manus Island in the form of thousands of text messages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe should recognise the extent of Behrouz Boochani’s achievement by first acknowledging the difficulty of its creation, the near impossibility of its existence. Everything has been done by our government to dehumanise asylum seekers. Their names and their stories are kept from us. On Nauru and Manus Island, they live in a zoo of cruelty. Their lives are stripped of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese prisoners were all people who had been imprisoned without charge, without conviction, and without sentence. It is a particularly Kafkaesque fate that frequently has the cruellest effect — and one fully intended by their Australian jailers – of destroying hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus the cry for freedom was transmuted into charring flesh as 23-year-old Omid Masoumali burnt his body in protest. The screams of 21-year-old Hodan Yasin as she too set herself alight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what we, Australia, have become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ignored begging of a woman on Nauru being raped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA girl who sewed her lips together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA child refugee who stitched a heart into their hand and didn’t know why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehrouz Boochani’s revolt took a different form. For the one thing that his jailers could not destroy in Behrouz Boochani was his belief in words: their beauty, their necessity, their possibility, their liberating power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so over the course of his imprisonment Behrouz Boochani began one of the more remarkable careers in Australian journalism: reporting about what was happening on Manus Island in the form of tweets, texts, phone videos, calls, and emails. In so doing he defied the Australian government which went to extreme lengths to prevent refugees’ stories being told, constantly seeking to deny journalists access to Manus Island and Nauru; going so far, for a time, as to legislate the draconian section 42 of the \u003cem\u003eAustralian Border Force Act\u003c\/em\u003e, which allowed for the jailing for two years of any doctors or social workers who bore public witness to children beaten or sexually abused, to acts of rape or cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis words came to be read around the world, to be heard across the oceans and over the shrill cries of the legions of paid propagandists. With only the truth on his side and a phone in his hand, one imprisoned refugee alerted the world to Australia’s great crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehrouz Boochani has now written a strange and terrible book chronicling his fate as a young man who has spent \u003cem\u003efive years\u003c\/em\u003e on Manus Island as a prisoner of the Australian government’s refugee policies — policies in which both our major parties have publicly competed in cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading this book is difficult for any Australian. We pride ourselves on decency, kindness, generosity, and a fair go. None of these qualities are evident in Boochani’s account of hunger, squalor, beatings, suicide and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was painfully reminded in his descriptions of the Australian officials’ behaviour on Manus of my father’s descriptions of the Japanese commanders’ behaviour in the POW camps where he and fellow Australian POWs suffered so much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat has become of us when it is we who now commit such crimes?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis account demands a reckoning. Someone must answer for these crimes. Because if they don’t, the one certainty that history teaches us is that the injustice of Manus Island and Nauru will one day be repeated on a larger, grander, and infinitely more tragic scale in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomeone is responsible, and it is they, and not the innocent, to whose great suffering this book bears such disturbing witness, who should be in jail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, though, is something greater than just a \u003cem\u003eJ’accuse\u003c\/em\u003e. It is a profound victory for a young poet who showed us all how much words can still matter. Australia imprisoned his body, but his soul remained that of a free man. His words have now irrevocably become our words, and our history must henceforth account for his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hope one day to welcome Behrouz Boochani to Australia as what I believe he has shown himself to be in these pages. A writer. A great Australian writer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Richard Flanagan, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv \u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eExcerpt from Chapter 5—\u003cbr\/\u003eA Christmas (Island) Tale \/ A Stateless Rohingya Boy Sent Away to Follow the Star of Exile\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey load us onto a bus. A few days ago in this exact area a bloody battle erupted, right in the place where we are now standing like submissive sheep. Lebanese refugees stood up to defy the guards who wanted to load them on board. But the guards smashed them and beat them down. They annihilated them, beat down on the arms and faces of a few of them. The guards dragged their battered and blood-soaked bodies over the concrete. They banished them to Manus Island. No matter how the refugees tried to resist, they couldn’t alter the political machinations of a government, a government that had just recently taken power, that had gone mad with the mere whiff of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bus takes off. The path to the airport is surrounded by jungle. The conversation inside the vehicle is about the possibility of a particular scenario: that we will disembark at Darwin Airport and find out that all this talk is nothing but a ridiculous performance, the whole thing just a farce, that this whole thing doesn’t involve Manus in any way. However, talk of this kind comes from a place of weakness. At this point, faith in an occurrence that resembles a miracle comes across as ludicrous. We have to accept the reality. Within hours we will be descending on a remote island called Manus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few police vehicles follow our bus, and a few travel ahead. It is as though they are attending to our bus like a car transporting a president. We are so disempowered that we couldn’t do anything at all, even if we wanted to. Our baggy, cumbersome clothing weighs us down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePandemonium breaks loose at the airport. Dozens of police officers stand by the plane in military mode. A few journalists have their cameras ready. All of them are waiting for us. The interpreters are there, also. That Kurdish woman has both her hands clasped behind her back. She just stands there, completely obedient. I can’t work it out; I can’t understand why they have to securitise that space. I am frightened by the journalists; I am frightened by the cameras they hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalists inquire into everything. They are always seeking out horrific events. They acquire fodder for their work from wars, from bad occurrences, from the misery of people. I remember when I used to work for a newspaper I would become agitated from listening to all the news about, for instance, a coup d’état, a revolution, or a terrorist attack. I would begin work with great fervour and scramble for that kind of research like a vulture; in turn, I fed the appetite of the people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journalists are staking out the situation like vultures: waiting until the wretched and miserable exit the vehicle; eager for us to come out as quickly as possible, to catch sight of the poor and helpless and launch on us —\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClick, click \/\u003cbr\/\u003eWaiting to take their photos \/ Click, click.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— and dispatch the images to the whole world. They are completely mesmerised by the government’s dirty politics and just follow along. The deal is that we have to be a warning, a lesson for people who want to seek protection in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A stateless Kurdish-Iranian asylum-seeker detained by the Australian government won the country’s highest-paying literary prize on Thursday. But he could not attend the festivities to accept the award. Behrouz Boochani, a writer, journalist and filmmaker who has been held in offshore detention on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for more than five years, won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature for his book, No Friend but the Mountains . . . Typically, only Australian citizens or permanent residents are eligible for the award. But an exception was made in Mr. Boochani’s case because judges considered his story an Australia story, said Michael Williams, the director of the Wheeler Center, a literary institution that administers the award on behalf of the state government. ‘We canvassed the critical and broader literary reception of the book, and we made our decision on that basis,’ Mr. Williams said. ‘This is an extraordinary literary work that is an indelible contribution to Australian publishing and storytelling.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"Boochani tapped his book out in text messages to his friend Omid Tofighian, who translated the book from Persian. Before the book was published, Boochani filmed a movie, Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, which was shot in secret, on his cell phone. He has written many articles and essays for Australian and international media. He now holds a non-resident appointment at the University of Sydney. In a different place, or at a different time, these professional recognitions, to say nothing of his many literary awards, would have signalled that Boochani is integrated into Australian society, and valued by it. But Australia’s extreme anti-immigrant turn, which preceded that of the United States by several years, has created a stark disjuncture between what the culture values and what the state allows. In an era when simply being a person in need of international protection makes a man a criminal, he cannot live in the society that has showered him with praise.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Masha Gessen","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison is an extraordinary insight into the life of several hundred men held in offshore prisons under the Australian policy of immigration detention.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Los Angeles Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"The winner of Australia’s richest literary prize did not attend the ceremony. His absence was not by choice. Behrouz Boochani, whose debut book won both the $25,000 non-fiction prize at the Victorian premier’s literary awards and the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature on Thursday night, is not allowed into Australia. The Kurdish Iranian writer is an asylum seeker who has been kept in purgatory on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for almost six years, first behind the wire of the Australian offshore detention centre, and then in alternative accommodation on the island. Now his book No Friend but the Mountains — composed one text message at a time from within the detention centre — has been recognized by a government from the same country that denied him access and locked him up.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"As war, crime, famine, and civil disruption result in growing numbers of asylum seekers, Boochani’s deeply disturbing memoir introduces readers to hard realities and reveals the wounded hearts of captors and prisoners alike.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_5":"Nominated","PrizeCodeText_6":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_7":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeCode_5":"07","PrizeCode_6":"01","PrizeCode_7":"03","PrizeName_0":"Victorian Prize for Literature","PrizeName_1":"Victorian Premier’s Prize for Nonfiction","PrizeName_2":"NSW Premier’s Literary Award: Special Award","PrizeName_3":"ABIA General Non-Fiction Book of the Year","PrizeName_4":"State Library New South Wales National Biography Award","PrizeName_5":"Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award: Autobiography \u0026amp; Memoir","PrizeName_6":"Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award: Editor’s Choice (Nonfiction)","PrizeName_7":"A New Statesman Book of the Year","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-02-11","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison.","Subtitle":"Writing from Manus Prison","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
No Friend but the Mountains
Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison.
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to 9
/ grades K
to 4
Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!
A picture-book biography of Viola Desmond, Canada’s Rosa Parks, who was arrested for refusing to sit in the segregated section of a movie theater.
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This publication is nothing short of a triumph for Sydney Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Canadian Children's Book News","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003eThe essence of this story is to be found not in what's said, but in what's left unspoken … \u003cem\u003eDo You Remember?\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of separation and change not to be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"CM: Canadian Review of Materials","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written and evocatively illustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eFrom the creator of \u003cem\u003eSmall in the City\u003c\/em\u003e and the illustrator of \u003cem\u003eTown Is by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSidewalk Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a moving look at how memories are made.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_10":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_11":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_5":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_6":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_7":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_8":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_9":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_10":"04","PrizeCode_11":"04","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeCode_5":"03","PrizeCode_6":"03","PrizeCode_7":"03","PrizeCode_8":"03","PrizeCode_9":"04","PrizeName_0":"Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards","PrizeName_1":"Sheila Barry Best Canadian Picture Book of the Year Award","PrizeName_10":"TD Canadian Children's Literature Award","PrizeName_11":"Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards","PrizeName_2":"New York Times Best Children's Books of 2023","PrizeName_3":"Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2023","PrizeName_4":"New York Public Library Best Books for Kids","PrizeName_5":"Kirkus Best Picture Books of the Year","PrizeName_6":"Horn Book Fanfare","PrizeName_7":"The Globe 100 Best Books of 2023","PrizeName_8":"Ontario Library Association Best Bets","PrizeName_9":"Governor General's Literary Award, Young People's Literature — Illustrated Books","PrizeYear_0":"2024","PrizeYear_1":"2024","PrizeYear_10":"2024","PrizeYear_11":"2024","PrizeYear_2":"2023","PrizeYear_3":"2023","PrizeYear_4":"2023","PrizeYear_5":"2023","PrizeYear_6":"2023","PrizeYear_7":"2023","PrizeYear_8":"2024","PrizeYear_9":"2024","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2023-10-03","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eFrom the creator of \u003cem\u003eSmall in the City\u003c\/em\u003e and the illustrator of \u003cem\u003eTown Is by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSidewalk Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a moving look at how memories are made.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"9","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Do You Remember?
From the creator of Small in the City and the illustrator of Town Is by the Sea and Sidewalk Flowers, comes a moving look at how memories are made.
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They are ghosts born of a magnificent well-documented imagination. [Grenier] is a great talent, [he] possesses a major voice, the invention of Quebec literature in 1958 flourishes thanks to [his] work. Only a genius like Réjean Ducharme could take umbrage, but no other novelist of my generation was able to undertake such a novel.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"Jacques Godbout, author of Hail Galarneau!","OtherText_Accolades_1":"The Longest Year by Daniel Grenier is a magnificent novel featuring a character who is born on February 29 and is witness to 260 years of history in the United States and Quebec. Fascinating. Superbly written.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Src":"Michel Tremblay, author of The Heart Laid Bare","OtherText_Accolades_2":"The breadth of The Longest Year is very satisfying, the intimacy even more so. This is an addictive book. And the reason it is addictive is the warm, intelligent, empathic, enveloping voice of Daniel Grenier. Here is an author who excels in lyricism and is unafraid to tell a good, big story. Daniel Grenier is a rare breed: an old soul overflowing with youthful energy.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Src":"Mireille Silcoff, author of Chez L’arabe","OtherText_Accolades_3":"A leap year of a book: the kind that comes rarely. Grenier’s prose is tough, vibrant, and occasionally bloody, with a wit — and a grace — that recalls George Saunders or Rachel Kushner.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Src":"Sean Michaels, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author","OtherText_Accolades_4":"The Longest Year is a tall tale for the 21th century — insanely inventive, insightful, and moving, at times funny and at times horrifying, epic in scope and yet very intimate in its knowledge of the human heart. Its ideas about life and time, as well as its larger than life characters, will stay with the reader for a while.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Src":"Samuel Archibald, author of Arvida","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWORK IN TRANSLATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Longest Year\u003c\/em\u003e was first published with the title \u003cem\u003eL’année la plus longue\u003c\/em\u003e in French in August 2015 by the Montreal-based press, Le Quartanier. Following the widespread success of translations such as \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Life of Trees\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/em\u003e, and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, public interest in translation has never been higher.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNEXT BIG THING IN MAGICAL REALISM:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eDaniel Grenier’s writing has been compared to that of Junot Diaz, George Saunders, Rachel Kushner, and David Mitchell.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Longest Year\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. The French edition (\u003cem\u003eL’année la plus longue\u003c\/em\u003e), won the Prix littéraire des collégiens and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Fiction, the Prix des libraires, and the Prix littéraire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWORK IN TRANSLATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Longest Year\u003c\/em\u003e was first published with the title \u003cem\u003eL’année la plus longue\u003c\/em\u003e in French in August 2015 by the Montreal-based press, Le Quartanier. Following the widespread success of translations such as \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Life of Trees\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/em\u003e, and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, public interest in translation has never been higher.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNEXT BIG THING IN MAGICAL REALISM:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eDaniel Grenier’s writing has been compared to that of Junot Diaz, George Saunders, Rachel Kushner, and David Mitchell.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Longest Year\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. The French edition (\u003cem\u003eL’année la plus longue\u003c\/em\u003e), won the Prix littéraire des collégiens and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Fiction, the Prix des libraires, and the Prix littéraire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A solid work . . . magical.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"La Presse","OtherText_Review_1":"Ambitious. An epic with dense, controlled writing. Large in scope yet intimate . . . A tour de force that takes us across centuries, past frontiers . . . and doesn’t hesitate to flirt with fantasy.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_2":"Historical fiction at its finest ... full of wit, whimsy, and a wellspring of historical detail","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"Last year, Catherine Leroux’s The Party Wall arrived like a revelation: a French-Canadian novel with a continent-sized imagination, about connections between people over borders and across time. . . . [I]n The Longest Year Grenier engages a similar continental imaginary. The novel’s magic realist conceit — that a person born on Feb. 29 might age one year for every four — allows an epic swath of history with sweeping geography to match.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"[M]agical . . . spectacular . . . Grenier’s magnum opus . . . The Longest Year is the kind of book you want to tell people about. [Strauss] has masterfully translated L’année la plus longue, Grenier’s genre-volt-face, into The Longest Year — a year so good I wouldn’t mind living it a few times over myself, this novel’s plot begging for another crack.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Daniel Grenier’s novel, perfect for fans of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Prix littéraire des collégiens","PrizeName_1":"Prix des libraires","PrizeName_2":"Prix littéraire France-Québec","PrizeYear_0":"2015","PrizeYear_1":"2015","PrizeYear_2":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2017-03-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Daniel Grenier’s novel, perfect for fans of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Longest Year
Daniel Grenier’s novel, perfect for fans of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.
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Examining Alicia’s and his own different choices and circumstances, he attempts to discover how their lives diverged — and what drives people like Alicia to face death in the pursuit of their ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-01-16T14:22:01-05:00","created_at":"2023-01-16T14:16:57-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Raboy Marc","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2022-04-12"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"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":41074644779067,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010546","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Looking for Alicia - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":474,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487010546","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41074645139515,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010553","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Looking for Alicia - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010553","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_34a5bf4a-1f98-48fa-819d-a43d2396236c.jpg?v=1705815898"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_34a5bf4a-1f98-48fa-819d-a43d2396236c.jpg?v=1705815898","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24119031038011,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_34a5bf4a-1f98-48fa-819d-a43d2396236c.jpg?v=1705815898"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_34a5bf4a-1f98-48fa-819d-a43d2396236c.jpg?v=1705815898","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2022 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2024 Jewish Public Library Jacob Isaac Segal Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe biography of a radical young idealist, her determination to make a difference in the world, and her disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina’s descent into rightwing madness.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003eIt started with a coincidence — when Marc Raboy happened to discover that he shared a surname with a young left-wing Argentinian journalist who in 1976 was ambushed by a right-wing death squad while driving with her family. 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Examining Alicia’s and his own different choices and circumstances, he attempts to discover how their lives diverged — and what drives people like Alicia to face death in the pursuit of their ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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He lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Raboy, Marc (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2022 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2024 Jewish Public Library Jacob Isaac Segal Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe biography of a radical young idealist, her determination to make a difference in the world, and her disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina’s descent into rightwing madness.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003eIt started with a coincidence — when Marc Raboy happened to discover that he shared a surname with a young left-wing Argentinian journalist who in 1976 was ambushed by a right-wing death squad while driving with her family. Alicia’s partner was killed on the spot, and their baby daughter was taken and placed in an orphanage. 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Alicia’s story is the story of too many Argentinians, which Raboy brings to life in this thoroughly engrossing account.\" — \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Andreas, Brown University, author of \u003cem\u003eRebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Peter Andreas, Brown University, author of Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marc Raboy’s personal journey of discovery takes the reader into the terror of Argentina’s 1970s military dictatorship. Rich in anecdote and authoritative political history, this riveting work of remembrance combines thorough research with the pacing of a cracking good novel.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Neal, former Latin America-based journalist and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Rebel Scribe – Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to US Policy in Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Christopher Neal, former Latin America-based journalist and author of The Rebel Scribe – Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to US Policy in Latin America","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marc Raboy’s investigation into the disappearance of Argentine journalist and social activist, Alicia Raboy, \u003cem\u003eLooking for Alicia\u003c\/em\u003e succeeds in many ways. As a personal memoir, it uncovers surprising family links (Marc and Alicia are distantly related). As a political essay, it delves into the nature of repressive and democratic governments. As a page-turning story, it sweeps away the dust around a decades-old mystery. As a cautionary tale, it warns of the consequences that idealistic youth inevitably face in their zeal to confront corrupt powers that be. As a moral treatise, it posits that the search for justice is an obligation that continues long after unpunished crimes were committed.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJury Citation, Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Jury Citation, Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA compelling exploration of the life story of an Argentine desaparecida (“missing individual”).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpeaks to the complex political situation in Argentina in the 1970s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor fans of complex memoirs, investigative journalism, and historical drama.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA compelling exploration of the life story of an Argentine desaparecida (“missing individual”).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpeaks to the complex political situation in Argentina in the 1970s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor fans of complex memoirs, investigative journalism, and historical drama.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"Raboy’s book is an effort to recover something more than the bare-bones official story … it is an attempt to reconstruct the life of a woman who was killed by the state for her radical politics. Attempting this, difficult or impossible as it is, humanizes the victims of the dictatorship and reminds us that though they may be called \u003cem \u003edesaparecidos\u003c\/em\u003e, they did not disappear — they were killed by their fellow Argentines for what they believed in.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJacobin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"White Wall Review","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"What had begun as a pleasant vacation and a casual genealogical interest suddenly became the impetus for an in-depth investigation … are the Argentinian Raboys long-lost relatives? The reader will find out, but more important than blood kinship for Marc Raboy is the irreparable bond he has forged with them.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanadian Jewish News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"By telling the tale of one person’s political awakening — her commitment, her energy and optimism, and her fate Marc Raboy makes a distant and dismal period of violence and fear accessible.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Canadian Jewish News","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003e\"Looking for Alicia \u003c\/em\u003eis an important book\u003cem \u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e In giving a face and a name to one principled victim of the ‘Dirty War,’ it memorializes all of them. It is a stark reminder that there are moral choices to be made. Like Alicia, eventually we all must decide which side we are on.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJewish Book Council\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"In sketching the outlines of Alicia’s story, Raboy points us to other mysteries of Argentina’s 1970s and ’80s — thousands of them — still waiting to be solved.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Jacobin","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003e\"Looking for Alicia \u003c\/em\u003eis beautifully written and based on meticulous research.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanadian Journal of Communication\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Forward","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"[Raboy] thoroughly details the political turmoil that existed in Argentina for much of the 20th century, including six military coups that took place between 1930 and 1976 … Raboy links Argentina’s bloody history to the real lives of Alicia, Urondo and their families, but the book also contains detailed information on the country’s political history.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Jewish Book Council","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003e\"Looking for Alicia \u003c\/em\u003eis an unfortunate and stark symbol of the way women’s lives and stories are seen as inconsequential, as vessels for amplifying the lives of people around them. Years later, the publication of this book at a time where the rights of women are under attack feels like a chilling comparison to our current climate.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Wall Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Canadian Journal of Communication","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe biography of a young idealist's disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina’s descent into rightwing madness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Jewish Public Library Jacob Isaac Segal Award","PrizeYear_0":"2022","PrizeYear_1":"2024","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2022-04-12","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe biography of a young idealist's disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina’s descent into rightwing madness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Looking for Alicia
The biography of a young idealist's disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina’s descent into rightwing madness.
