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Michaud, a brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetired fifty-something Robert Moreau flees a society he can no longer bear for Mirror Lake, Maine. Little does he suspect that an intrusive neighbour and a mysterious death will quickly dispel any illusions he may have had about finding sanctuary in isolation. The misanthropic Moreau quickly learns that his Thoreau-like vision is a fiction. And as in all fiction, nothing, not even Moreau’s own identity, is certain — except, perhaps, the friendship of his loyal dog, Jeff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this tragicomic novel of the confusion between the fabular and the real, brilliantly rooted in the forested Quebec-Maine landscape, Moreau is compelled to look deep in Mirror Lake’s shimmering waters and into the eyes of the man he is, was, and could be. Winner of the Prix Ringuet and adapted into a feature film, \u003ci\u003eMirror Lake \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterpiece of Michaud’s canon, a playfully genre-mixing psycho-thriller that explores our mysterious existence and the bottomless self.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Her novel \u003cem\u003eBoundary\u003c\/em\u003e was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and has been published in seven territories, and the English translation of \u003cem\u003eBack Roads\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for Governor General’s Literary Award. She was born in Saint-Sébastien-de-Frontenac and continues to live in the province of Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. C. SUTCLIFFE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator, writer, and editor. Her translation of\u003cem\u003e Back Roads\u003c\/em\u003e by Andrée A. Michaud was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Her other translations include \u003cem\u003eMama’s Boy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMama’s Boy Behind Bars\u003c\/em\u003e by David Goudreault, \u003cem\u003eDocument 1 \u003c\/em\u003eby François Blais, and \u003cem\u003eWorst Case, We Get Married\u003c\/em\u003e by Sophie Bienvenu. 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The misanthropic Moreau quickly learns that his Thoreau-like vision is a fiction. And as in all fiction, nothing, not even Moreau’s own identity, is certain — except, perhaps, the friendship of his loyal dog, Jeff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this tragicomic novel of the confusion between the fabular and the real, brilliantly rooted in the forested Quebec-Maine landscape, Moreau is compelled to look deep in Mirror Lake’s shimmering waters and into the eyes of the man he is, was, and could be. Winner of the Prix Ringuet and adapted into a feature film, \u003ci\u003eMirror Lake \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterpiece of Michaud’s canon, a playfully genre-mixing psycho-thriller that explores our mysterious existence and the bottomless self.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487005849","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487005849\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Imprint":"Arachnide Editions","MetaKeywords":".","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAPPETITE FOR BREAKOUT BOOKS IN TRANSLATION: \u003c\/strong\u003eWith the enormous success of psychological suspense novels like \u003cem\u003eThe Perfect Nanny \u003c\/em\u003eby Leila Slimani and the stunning work of metafiction \u003cem\u003eThe Memory Police \u003c\/em\u003eby Yoko Ogawa, the English-language market is demonstrating an appetite for thrilling works of fiction that cross the boundaries between literary and genre fiction. Michaud is a master of suspense and the psychological thriller, and releasing her latest novel in the spring season makes it perfect for those readers looking for an absorbing mystery with a dark edge. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS:\u003c\/strong\u003e Andrée Michaud is a well-established name across the French-speaking world, and beyond. She has won the Quais du Polar Prize for Best Crime Novel (named for the eponymous festival celebrating crime fiction in film and print, held in Lyons, France) and \u003cem\u003eELLE \u003c\/em\u003eMagazine’s Readers’ Prize in France. She is such a famous writer in that country that she has her own entry in the dictionary! Her novel \u003cem\u003eBondrée\u003c\/em\u003e was sold in eight territories across Europe and North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE AND LITERARY THRILLERS:\u003c\/strong\u003e Michaud is a major author with eleven novels to her name. She has won two Governor General’s Literary Awards, the Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, the Prix Ringuet, and France’s Prix SNCF du Polar. She has also experienced acclaim in the English-language market with her nomination for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. This will be her third work in English translation, following her genre-bending psychological mystery \u003cem\u003eBack Roads \u003c\/em\u003e(Arachnide, 2020). Michaud is poised to become a major hit in the English-language world.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eF\u003cstrong\u003eLEEING SOCIETY FOR THE PRESUMED SOLACE OF NATURE\u003c\/strong\u003e: Thematically, in this novel Michaud explores an urge that will be more and more poignant in the coming years: fleeing the traps of crowded city life for the much idealized solace of the rural community and of nature. Michaud’s masterful story twists and turns this notion that one can escape society entirely on its head.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAPPETITE FOR BREAKOUT BOOKS IN TRANSLATION: \u003c\/strong\u003eWith the enormous success of psychological suspense novels like \u003cem\u003eThe Perfect Nanny \u003c\/em\u003eby Leila Slimani and the stunning work of metafiction \u003cem\u003eThe Memory Police \u003c\/em\u003eby Yoko Ogawa, the English-language market is demonstrating an appetite for thrilling works of fiction that cross the boundaries between literary and genre fiction. Michaud is a master of suspense and the psychological thriller, and releasing her latest novel in the spring season makes it perfect for those readers looking for an absorbing mystery with a dark edge. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS:\u003c\/strong\u003e Andrée Michaud is a well-established name across the French-speaking world, and beyond. She has won the Quais du Polar Prize for Best Crime Novel (named for the eponymous festival celebrating crime fiction in film and print, held in Lyons, France) and \u003cem\u003eELLE \u003c\/em\u003eMagazine’s Readers’ Prize in France. She is such a famous writer in that country that she has her own entry in the dictionary! 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Michaud is poised to become a major hit in the English-language world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eF\u003cstrong\u003eLEEING SOCIETY FOR THE PRESUMED SOLACE OF NATURE\u003c\/strong\u003e: Thematically, in this novel Michaud explores an urge that will be more and more poignant in the coming years: fleeing the traps of crowded city life for the much idealized solace of the rural community and of nature. 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Mirror Lake
A brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.
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Mind Over Money
Explore the power of money and learn how psychology is providing us with some extraordinary tools for making better decisions about money.
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{"id":6582723313723,"title":"Born Liars","handle":"born-liars","description":"\u003cp\u003eLying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but it is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey that makes us question not only our own relationship to the truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have. On the way he dissects the history of the lie detector, how parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice versa), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the philosophical ambiguity of telling the truth, Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess, Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth, and why we should be wary of anyone with more than 150 Facebook friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBorn Liars\u003c\/em\u003e is thought-provoking, anecdotally driven narrative nonfiction at its best. Ian Leslie’s intoxicating blend of anthropology, biology, cultural history, philosophy, and popular psychology belies a serious central message: that humans have evolved and thrived in large part because of their ability to deceive.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:06:44-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:06:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","Anansi International","By (author) Leslie Ian","pub date: 2011-05-21"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2195,"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":39403408883771,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890282","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Born Liars - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890282","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412944797755,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887843341","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Born Liars - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2195,"weight":503,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887843341","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412944863291,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895775","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Born Liars - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895775","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_693ba5bf-7c9a-4363-8508-d0ca60a9cf2b.jpg?v=1723950478"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_693ba5bf-7c9a-4363-8508-d0ca60a9cf2b.jpg?v=1723950478","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743107723323,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":642,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_693ba5bf-7c9a-4363-8508-d0ca60a9cf2b.jpg?v=1723950478"},"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":642,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_693ba5bf-7c9a-4363-8508-d0ca60a9cf2b.jpg?v=1723950478","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eLying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but it is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey that makes us question not only our own relationship to the truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have. On the way he dissects the history of the lie detector, how parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice versa), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the philosophical ambiguity of telling the truth, Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess, Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth, and why we should be wary of anyone with more than 150 Facebook friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBorn Liars\u003c\/em\u003e is thought-provoking, anecdotally driven narrative nonfiction at its best. Ian Leslie’s intoxicating blend of anthropology, biology, cultural history, philosophy, and popular psychology belies a serious central message: that humans have evolved and thrived in large part because of their ability to deceive.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Born Liars
Learn the truth about lying with this engaging look at how deception gives us a survival edge and shapes humankind.
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The Blue Book
A novel of illusions and false trails, magical numbers and redemptive humour, about what happens when we are misled and what happens when we are true.
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Yet Auschwitz-as-metaphor masks what Rudolf Höss, its overseer, speedily and savagely achieved: the industrialized annihilation of living Jewish families — children, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents — even as in the very pit of atrocity he gaudily sentimentalized his own family. 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Hanns and Rudolf
The untold story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals.
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Kiss the Undertow
The disturbing story of a swimmer navigating the abuse of her body and mind as she trains for competition, exploring the nature of power and will.
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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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In the event there is medical advice from two or more treating doctors that a person needs to be evacuated, the home affairs minister has grounds for refusal.) passed in the Senate.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nHere is information on the medical evacuation bill:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/feb\/13\/nine-facts-about-the-medical-evacuation-bill\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAnd Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response, upping the rhetoric on fearing migrants and refugees:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/feb\/13\/coalition-to-reopen-christmas-island-detention-centre-as-senate-passes-refugee-transfer-bill\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA PEN INTERNATIONAL WRITER:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePEN International has called on the Australian government for Boochani’s release. 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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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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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Swimming Lessons is so smoothly, beautifully written, and the human failures here are heartbreaking.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"David Vann, author of Aquarium","OtherText_Review_3":"Swimming Lessons continues Claire Fuller’s mastery of beautiful language and heartbreaking imagery, which lays bare the stories of infidelities, lies, revivals of love and then demise of those loves. The women of this novel fight for their very souls, and their stories unfurl like flags of independence appearing in to wave from her landscape of great books and art and hope.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here","OtherText_Review_4":"As in her gorgeously harrowing Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller returns to the territory of a mother’s disappearance and a father’s lies with bewitching and page-turning results. If anything, Swimming Lessons is an even more complex puzzle box of a book, excavating darkly knotted family secrets, intricately cruel betrayals and layers of ambiguous loss. Fuller is so clear eyed, poised and psychologically shrewd in the unfolding of her tale, you will be kept guessing until the final penetrating sentence. An extraordinarily smart and satisfying read.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife","OtherText_Review_5":"Saving the best for last with revelations and surprises, Fuller’s well-crafted, intricate tale captures the strengths and shortcomings of ordinary people to show how healing is possible by confronting the darkest places.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"Fuller’s tale is eloquent, harrowing, raw . . . 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Swimming Lessons
A woman disappears without a trace. Twelve years later, her adult daughter starts finding answers hidden in the books that her mother left behind.
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There must be some solace in thinking your house will go on living apart from you, like an extension, a promise renewed no matter the hardships or failures, bestowing sudden meaning on sorrow. Personally, it's all a mystery to me since I have no desire to see others blossom where I once withered away — but then I'm not a very nice person.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eÉvelyne shows me the rest of her house: two children's bedrooms. In the first room, a cream-coloured quilt in a delicate pattern of pink and pale-green buttercups and peonies. A number of lively drawings on the walls, all signed SOLENE. In the second bedroom, blue and green stripes, dinosaur figurines, wood letters painted red hanging on the door: MATTEO. Évelyne was astute enough to keep the walls white. 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Her coral lips give the faintest, saddest smile ever smiled and she murmurs: \u003cem\u003eThree boys. That's quite something, isn't it\u003c\/em\u003e.\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":"Britt’s novel is an unflinching reminder that heartbreak doesn’t discriminate… . Britt reveals, moment by moment, the lifetime of a woman caught between the expectations of motherhood and personal fulfillment.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_1":"Britt is especially strong at capturing the hyper-vulnerability a mother can feel on behalf of her children . . . In capturing and sustaining that intense emotional pitch, the novel is spiritual kin to Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Adult Onset and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin . . . Translators Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli do an exemplary job of rendering Britt’s prose crisply and idiomatically.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2017-07-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Hunting Houses
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.
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{"id":6812123398203,"title":"The Smile of the Wolf","handle":"the-smile-of-the-wolf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSmile of the Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e bares its fangs from the first page. Like a medieval tapestry, the storytelling is rich with imagery. Reader will be lured spellbound into this lyrical and evocative Icelandic saga. It deserves huge success.” — David Gilman, author of The Master of War series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe next great read for fans of the television show \u003ci\u003eVikings\u003c\/i\u003e; it’s \u0026gt;killing season in medieval Iceland where dead men rise from their graves, monsters are said to roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTENTH-CENTURY ICELAND. 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Readers will be lured spellbound into this lyrical and evocative Icelandic saga. It deserves huge success.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"David Gilman","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe feud began in winter, when a dead man rose from the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the distant lands where men worship the White Christ, I have heard that a ghost is not such a dangerous thing. They are creatures of no substance, who may wail and howl but cannot hurt a man. But in my country, the people are warriors even in death. Our ghosts are not shadow and air, but walking flesh. They wield their weapons with as much strength as they did in life, and more bravely, for they have nothing left to fear. And so, when we heard that Hrapp Osmundsson had crawled from his grave and begun to wander his lands at night, no man in the Salmon River Valley would leave his house after dark without a good blade at his side and a shield on his arm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn life, Hrapp had been the terror of his neighbours, ever covetous for their lands, their women, their blood. When the winter fever came on him and he knew he was soon to die, he commanded his wife to bury him upright beneath the doorway of his house, so that he could watch over his lands even in death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon enough, the stories spread throughout the dale. Thord the Sly had gone to check on his sheep at night and been set upon by a dead man carrying an axe. Erik Haroldsson, a braver man, had grappled with the creature when it came for him, but was sent running for his life with the heavy tread of the ghost behind him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo man sought to buy the farm from Hrapp’s widow. 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He had found it wandering Hrapp’s fields, bearing Hrapp’s old axe. Olaf cast a spear at it and the ghost had fled from him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wish he had not told me that. For it was then that I believed, and I began to tell the story myself.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Leach’s prose is taut, his characters are richly drawn, and the story unfolds with an Icelandic believable-but-inevitable tragedy.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1":"A fascinating book on many levels and a thoroughly absorbing read … In Smile of the Wolf, lovers and children are found and lost, loyalties tested, and the harsh reality of long ago Icelandic culture affirmed in a quite brilliant re-imagining of that time and place. Fans of historical fiction and suspense will find it a highly satisfying read.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Reviewing the Evidence","OtherText_Review_2":"A thoughtful, literary take on a world that is more often depicted in a boy’s adventure way. The focus in Leach’s book is not on the fighting, but on the strange, inescapable logic that makes the fighting inevitable.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"London Times","OtherText_Review_3":"An epic story of exile and revenge set in the snows of Iceland.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Sheffield Telegraph","OtherText_Review_4":"A poetic, absorbing narrative with many of the same qualities as the medieval Icelandic sagas that it echoes and reimagines.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_5":"Through him we understand the pitiless code of honour which drives almost everyone in the story to destruction – we understand, and we care.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Historical Novel Society","OtherText_Review_6":"A tale of winter with a fiery emotional heart.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Mind Reels","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In medieval Iceland dead men rise from the grave, monsters roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-01-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In medieval Iceland dead men rise from the grave, monsters roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
The Smile of the Wolf
In medieval Iceland dead men rise from the grave, monsters roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887842443","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487001889","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487012526","BASICMainSubject":"FIC019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Literary","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIPHIWE GLORIA NDLOVU\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Zimbabwean writer, scholar, and filmmaker. She is a 2022 recipient of the Windham–Campbell Prize for Fiction. Her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Theory of Flight\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize in 2019. Her second and third novels, \u003cem\u003eThe History of Man\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Quality of Mercy\u003c\/em\u003e, were shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. 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After almost two decades of living in North America, Ndlovu has returned home to Bulawayo, the City of Kings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShowcasing African Gothic at its finest, The Creation of Half-Broken People is the extraordinary tale of a nameless woman plagued by visions. She works for the Good Foundation and its museum filled with artifacts from the family’s exploits in Africa, the Good family members all being descendants of Captain John Good, of King Solomon’s Mines fame.\u003cbr\u003e\nOur heroine is happy with her association with the Good family, until one day she comes across a group of protestors outside the museum. Instigating the group is an ancient woman, who our heroine knows is not real. She knows too that the secrets of her past have returned. After this encounter, the nameless woman finds herself living first in an attic and then in a haunted castle, her life anything but normal as her own intangible inheritance unfolds through the women who inhabit her visions.\u003cbr\u003e\nWith a knowing nod to classics of the Gothic genre, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu weaves the threads of a complex colonial history into the present through people “half-broken” by the stigmas of race and mental illness, all the while balancing the humanity of her characters against the cruelty of empire in a hypnotic, haunting account of love and magic.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487013271","Height":"9","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"Zimbabwe;Chrysalis;Anuja Varghese;When We Were Birds;Ayanna Lloyd Banwo;Wide Sargasso Sea;Jean Rhys;Michelle Cliff;Who Will Bury You?;Chido Muchemwa;Picador Africa;Creepy;Ghosts;Creepy Castle;Rebecca;Daphne Du Maurier;Clue;Halloween;Halloween Reads;Spooky Reads","NumberOfPages":"384","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a writer who should make everyone sit up. Unusually in her generation, she has an acute sense of both history and the future, mixing attention to the regrettable effect of colonialism on African sensibility, and the narratives it has produced, with exciting formal approaches that open a way to making it all new. And, let’s hope, better!\" — \u003cstrong\u003eGiles Foden, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Last King of Scotland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNdlovu won a Windham-Campbell Prize in 2022, the citation called her a \"chronicler and a conjurer whose soaring imagination creates a Zimbabwean past made of anguish and hope, of glory and despair'.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA modern Gothic story that is set on the African continent, it is a novel that is in conversation with classic Gothic fiction – from Charlotte Bronte’s \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e to Toni Morrison’s \u003cem\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn absorbing examination of the complex colonial history in Southern Africa. The book examines the intangible inheritance of race, ancestry, and belonging.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe book’s mood\/tone: Literary, imaginative, dark, with a touch of magical realism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor readers of African women’s literature; fans of modern gothic literature; BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ readers; lovers of literary fiction; academics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“This is a writer who should make everyone sit up. Unusually in her generation, she has an acute sense of both history and the future, mixing attention to the regrettable effect of colonialism on African sensibility, and the narratives it has produced, with exciting formal approaches that open a way to making it all new. 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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize
