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{"id":6815262670907,"title":"A Florence Diary","handle":"a-florence-diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA recently discovered gem from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSomewhere Towards the End\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Florence Diary\u003c\/i\u003e is the charming and vivacious account of Athill’s travels to post-war Florence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her cousin Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, delightfully illustrated with photographs of the period, Athill recorded her observations and adventures — eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring architectural sights, sampling delicious pastries, eking out their budget, and getting into scrapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with an arresting immediacy and infused with an exhilarating joie de vivre, \u003ci\u003eA Florence Diary \u003c\/i\u003eis a bright, colourful evocation of a time long lost and a vibrant portrait of a city that will be deliciously familiar to any contemporary traveller.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:37-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:44:25-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","Anansi International","By (author) Athill Diana","Feminist Reads","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2016-11-05"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":40209185243195,"title":"hardcover jacket","option1":"hardcover jacket","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002206","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Florence Diary - hardcover jacket","public_title":"hardcover jacket","options":["hardcover jacket"],"price":1995,"weight":160,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002206","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209185669179,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002213","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Florence Diary - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002213","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209185996859,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002220","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Florence Diary - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002220","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_82b00c93-589f-44ef-bf39-88d7b1d974da.jpg?v=1678600201"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_82b00c93-589f-44ef-bf39-88d7b1d974da.jpg?v=1678600201","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324551118907,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.733,"height":2175,"width":1594,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_82b00c93-589f-44ef-bf39-88d7b1d974da.jpg?v=1678600201"},"aspect_ratio":0.733,"height":2175,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_82b00c93-589f-44ef-bf39-88d7b1d974da.jpg?v=1678600201","width":1594}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA recently discovered gem from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSomewhere Towards the End\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Florence Diary\u003c\/i\u003e is the charming and vivacious account of Athill’s travels to post-war Florence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her cousin Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, delightfully illustrated with photographs of the period, Athill recorded her observations and adventures — eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring architectural sights, sampling delicious pastries, eking out their budget, and getting into scrapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with an arresting immediacy and infused with an exhilarating joie de vivre, \u003ci\u003eA Florence Diary \u003c\/i\u003eis a bright, colourful evocation of a time long lost and a vibrant portrait of a city that will be deliciously familiar to any contemporary traveller.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A Florence Diary
A Florence Diary is the charming and vivacious account of Diana Athill’s travels to post-war Florence.
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A Table Set for Sisterhood
A wholly original feminist cookbook featuring over thirty recipes, each linked to a significant woman throughout history and from across the globe.
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{"id":6812117237819,"title":"A Twilight Celebration","handle":"a-twilight-celebration","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe latest work in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s masterful novel cycle, \u003ci\u003eA Twilight Celebration \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the prophetic side of the writer and the burden that falls to him in a world whose fate is yet to be determined.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel, a middle-aged novelist and loving father alienated from one of his sons and unsure how to care for his daughter, is on his way to an international conference of writers. The gathering is to be held in the forest above a mountain village of a strangely dreamlike nature. In the twilight of the festival’s setting, dreams, memories, nightmares, and dark forebodings meld in Daniel’s unsettled but deeply sympathetic consciousness: He is haunted by pressing existential questions: What is to be done? What are his responsibilities as a father, as a friend — and as a writer? As Daniel confronts his own vanities, as he recalls the activism but also the disappointments and betrayals of friends and colleagues — as he contends with, above all, the fears and aspirations of his children in times marred by apocalypse, he asks, ultimately, what \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e be done?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn what may well be the most beautiful and disturbing of her novels, Marie-Claire Blais leads us on a heady, spellbinding journey through an interconnected world in which the artist strives to divert humankind’s headlong rush towards a terrible destiny. Here is a world in which friends and strangers, the living, the dead and those not yet born, are inextricably bonded by their often flawed but always splendid humanity. 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In the twilight of the festival’s setting, dreams, memories, nightmares, and dark forebodings meld in Daniel’s unsettled but deeply sympathetic consciousness: He is haunted by pressing existential questions: What is to be done? What are his responsibilities as a father, as a friend — and as a writer? As Daniel confronts his own vanities, as he recalls the activism but also the disappointments and betrayals of friends and colleagues — as he contends with, above all, the fears and aspirations of his children in times marred by apocalypse, he asks, ultimately, what \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e be done?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn what may well be the most beautiful and disturbing of her novels, Marie-Claire Blais leads us on a heady, spellbinding journey through an interconnected world in which the artist strives to divert humankind’s headlong rush towards a terrible destiny. Here is a world in which friends and strangers, the living, the dead and those not yet born, are inextricably bonded by their often flawed but always splendid humanity. 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Her work is treasured in Canada, and it is widely revered in the U.S. Her writing has been described as “magical,” “powerful,” and “enriching,” and her award-winning series about contemporary North America has been compared to works by Virginia Woolf. Blais has also garnered numerous prestigious awards and honours, including the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and we expect that she will continue to be honoured as her body of work and stature as a literary legend grows.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNigel Spencer is Marie-Claire Blais’ longtime translator and a Governor General’s Literary Award winner for his work on Blais’ series of books. (\u003cem\u003eAugustino and the Choir of Destruction\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThunder and Light\u003c\/em\u003e won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation in 2007 and 2002.) Most recently, his translation of \u003cem\u003eMai at the Predators’ Ball\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation in 2012. Spencer gives us Blais’ singular vision in supple English prose that is as transcendent and nuanced as the original French.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA PRIZE-WORTHY LITERARY NOVEL:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePrize juries and reviewers are sure to take notice of this new work. \u003cem\u003eThe Acacia Gardens\u003c\/em\u003e was reviewed in \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e. 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A Twilight Celebration
The eighth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. A Twilight Celebration is a spellbinding novel brimming with urgent concerns and irrepressible empathy, true to Blais' singular idiom.
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{"id":7168139690043,"title":"Arms \u0026 Legs","handle":"arms-legs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA taut and suspenseful domestic drama that explodes the comforting and constricting confines of marriage and early parenthood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, Georgie’s marriage has stagnated. But there’s no room to attend to it, as dangers small and large crowd in: teeth break, her son can’t find his words, there’s something in her husband’s eye, termites swarm the neighbourhood, and she finds a dead boy in the burning woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then — there’s Jason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the repercussions of her discovery of the body, and her affair, come to land, Georgie digs deep, examining the undercurrents of her actions with curiosity, humour, and cutting emotional intelligence. \u003cem\u003eArms \u0026amp; Legs\u003c\/em\u003e is a deliriously insightful excavation of love, desire, parenthood, and relationships at their best, and worst.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-07-27T14:34:20-04:00","created_at":"2023-07-27T14:29:14-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Coming Soon","Anansi International","By (author) Lane Chloe","Feminist Reads","pub date: 2024-04-09","Thrillers \u0026 Mystery"],"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":41383001161787,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012038","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Arms \u0026 Legs - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012038","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41383002046523,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012045","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Arms \u0026 Legs - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012045","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_43a6421f-e8c7-4314-b082-27ec5a981b2e.jpg?v=1700926427"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_43a6421f-e8c7-4314-b082-27ec5a981b2e.jpg?v=1700926427","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23993751633979,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_43a6421f-e8c7-4314-b082-27ec5a981b2e.jpg?v=1700926427"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_43a6421f-e8c7-4314-b082-27ec5a981b2e.jpg?v=1700926427","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA taut and suspenseful domestic drama that explodes the comforting and constricting confines of marriage and early parenthood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, Georgie’s marriage has stagnated. But there’s no room to attend to it, as dangers small and large crowd in: teeth break, her son can’t find his words, there’s something in her husband’s eye, termites swarm the neighbourhood, and she finds a dead boy in the burning woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then — there’s Jason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the repercussions of her discovery of the body, and her affair, come to land, Georgie digs deep, examining the undercurrents of her actions with curiosity, humour, and cutting emotional intelligence. \u003cem\u003eArms \u0026amp; Legs\u003c\/em\u003e is a deliriously insightful excavation of love, desire, parenthood, and relationships at their best, and worst.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Arms & Legs
A taut and suspenseful domestic drama that explodes the comforting and constricting confines of marriage and early parenthood.
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Autopsy of a Boring Wife
The hysterically funny tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband is having an affair because, he says, she bores him.
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Barrelling Forward
Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.
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Bury the Lead
A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder.
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Then Mayya lost herself to love: a silent passion, but it sent tremors surging through her slight form, night after night, cresting in waves of tears and sighs. These were moments when she truly believed she would not survive the awful force of her longing to see him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer body prostrate, ready for the dawn prayers, she made a whispered oath. By the greatness of God — I want nothing, O Lord, just to see him. I solemnly promise you, Lord, I don’t even want him to look my way … I just want to see him. That’s all I want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother hadn’t given the matter of love any particular thought, since it never would have occurred to her that pale Mayya, so silent and still, would think about anything in this mundane world beyond her threads and the selvages of her fabrics, or that she would hear anything other than the clatter of her sewing machine. Mayya seemed to hardly shift position throughout the day, or even halfway into the night, her form perched quietly on the narrow, straight-backed wood chair in front of the black sewing machine with the image of a butterfly on its side. She barely even lifted her head, unless she needed to look as she groped for her scissors or fished another spool of thread out of the plastic sewing basket which always sat in her small wood utility chest. But Mayya heard everything in the world there was to hear. She noticed the brilliant hues life could have, however motionless her body might be. Her mother was grateful that Mayya’s appetite was so meagre (even if, now and then, she felt vestiges of guilt). She hoped fervently, though she would never have put her hope into words, that one of these days someone would come along who respected Mayya’s talents as a seamstress as much as he might appreciate her abstemious ways. The someone she envisioned would give Mayya a fine wedding procession after which he would take her home with all due ceremony and regard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat someone arrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs usual Mayya was seated on that narrow chair, bent over the sewing machine at the far end of the long sitting room that opened onto the compound’s private courtyard. Her mother walked over to her, beaming. She pressed her hand gently into her daughter’s shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMayya, my dear! The son of Merchant Sulayman has asked for your hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpasms shot through Mayya’s body. Her mother’s hand suddenly felt unbearably heavy on her shoulder and her throat went dry. She couldn’t stop imagining her sewing thread winding itself around her neck like a hangman’s noose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother smiled. I thought you were too old by now to put on such a girlish show! You needn’t act so bashful, Mayya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that was that. The subject was closed and no one raised it again. Mayya’s mother busied herself assembling the wedding clothes, concocting just the right blends of incense, having all the large seat-cushions reupholstered, and getting word out to the entire family. Mayya’s sisters kept their views to themselves and her father left the matter in her mother’s hands. After all, these were her girls and marriage was women’s business.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"An innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Booth’s translation honours the elliptical rhythms of Arabic and the language’s rich literary heritage . . . Yet there is no doubt that this is a contemporary novel, insistent and alive . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"The great pleasure of reading Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct. The ability to move freely through time, the privileged access to the wounded privacies of many characters, the striking diversity of human beings across a relatively narrow canvas, the shock waves as one generation heaves, like tectonic plates, against another, the secrets and lapses and repressions, at once intimate and historical, the power, indeed, of an investigation that is always political and always intimate — here is the novel being supremely itself, proving itself up to the job by changing not its terms of employment but the shape of the task.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"A rich, dense web of a novel . . . The chorus of voices that arises from these pages, at once harmonious and dissonant, constitutes nothing less than the assertion of the right to exist and to be recognized.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"The glimpses into a culture relatively little known in the West are fascinating.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"Ambitious, intense . . . With exhilarating results, Alharthi throws the reader into the midst of a tangled family drama in which unrequited love, murder, suicide, and adultery seem the rule rather than the exception . . . [Celestial Bodies] is all the more satisfying for the complexity of its tale.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"A richly layered, ambitious work that teems with human struggles and contradictions, providing fascinating insight into Omani history and society.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_6":"A book to win over the head and the heart in equal measure, worth lingering over. Interweaving voices and timelines are beautifully served by the pacing of the novel. Its delicate artistry draws us into a richly imagined community — opening out to tackle profound questions of time and mortality and disturbing aspects of our shared history. The style is a metaphor for the subject, subtly resisting clichés of race, slavery, and gender. The translation is precise and lyrical, weaving in the cadences of both poetry and everyday speech. Celestial Bodies evokes the forces that constrain us and those that set us free.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Bettany Hughes","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Man Booker International Prize","OtherText_Review_7":"The novel is a beautifully achieved account of lives pulling at the edges of change. The writing is teasingly elliptical throughout and there is a kind of poetic understatement that draws the reader into the domestic settings and public tribulations of the three sisters . . . Celestial Bodies deftly undermines recurrent stereotypes about Arab language and cultures, but most importantly brings a distinctive and important new voice to world literature.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Man Booker International Prize","PrizeName_1":"A Kirkus Reviews Best Book","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-10-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Celestial Bodies
The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.
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A specialist in literature and cinema of modern Iran, she teaches in the Continuing Studies program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where she lives with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Women","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Short Stories (single author)","BISACSubject_0":"FIC044000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC019000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC029000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNILOFAR SHIDMEHR\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, essayist, and scholar, and the author of six books in English and Farsi, including \u003cem\u003eBetween Lives\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eShirin and Salt Man\u003c\/em\u003e, a BC Book Prize finalist. She writes and delivers lectures on women’s rights, migration and diaspora, and social and political issues in Iran. 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A touching, fascinating read.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Sahar Delijani","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Iran is a complicated country with thousands of years of history. In Divided Loyalties, 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.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Musharraf Ali Farooqi","OtherText_Accolades_2":"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.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Farzana Doctor","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Payam Akhavan","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF IRANIAN REVOLUTION IN FEBRUARY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eTimed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, we expect considerable media attention for this book in February 2019. (The Iranian people overthrew the last Shah of the Persian monarchy on February 11, 1979, and brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power. 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Fiction by an Iranian-Canadian writer will appeal to book clubs who loved those memoirs.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","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_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 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.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"Showcases an impressive range.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"Divided Loyalties offers an in-depth view into the complex traditions, taboos, and social mores of Iranian society from the 1970s to the present day.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"Divided Loyalties should be required reading.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Refinery29","OtherText_Review_4":"Shidmehr’s sentences are complex and packed with information, at once crystal clear and highly nuanced, metaphoric and ruthlessly specific, held together by powerfully resonant central images that reverberate retroactively and knit together many levels of reference and meaning … These are stories of ordinary lives, starkly rendered and held in tender suspension, often between a ‘home’ which is beloved yet toxic, and an ‘away’ that is lonely and insulting in its oppressiveness. 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.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"EVENT Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-02-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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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Don’t Look At Me Like That
Editor Diana Athill’s only novel is an unflinching look at love and betrayal through the story of a young woman finding herself in 1950s London.
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Dunk Tank
Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.
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Dunk Tank special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Kayla Czaga's poetry collection Dunk Tank is limited to 50 copies.
