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{"id":6815473205307,"title":"Ravenscrag","handle":"ravenscrag","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe writer Alain Farah is living in two time periods, and he feels out of place in both. At the opening of his story, we find ourselves at McGill in 1962 and 2012. But the real problem lies elsewhere: on campus, a psychiatrist is conducting dangerous and unethical experiments on his patients. The writer’s uncle, Nab Safi, knows something about it, but soon he won’t be around to tell his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so begins an investigation in which time, place, memory, and people collide. A mother in the Lebanese ghetto bets her son in a game of dice to settle her debts. Dinosaurs are resurrected. An odd gun will be used to determine the outcome for those who truly believe. A torn old photo and a gothic swimming pool lead to the disturbing depths of Ravenscrag, a mournful manor with 36 chambers…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavenscrag\u003c\/em\u003e is an intriguing and truly original blend of retro science fiction and autobiography. It’s about resilience, literature as remedy, and ultimately, it’s a novel about survival through storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:44:08-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:42:11-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Arachnide Editions","By (author) Farah Alain","pub date: 2015-01-24","Translated by Lederhendler Lazer"],"price":1295,"price_min":1295,"price_max":2295,"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":40210004836411,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898950","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Ravenscrag - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2295,"weight":299,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898950","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40210118705211,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898967","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Ravenscrag - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898967","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40210119229499,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898974","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Ravenscrag - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898974","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5076862d-f6bc-4892-83d8-37fb65825d76.jpg?v=1678596441"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5076862d-f6bc-4892-83d8-37fb65825d76.jpg?v=1678596441","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324488859707,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5076862d-f6bc-4892-83d8-37fb65825d76.jpg?v=1678596441"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5076862d-f6bc-4892-83d8-37fb65825d76.jpg?v=1678596441","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe writer Alain Farah is living in two time periods, and he feels out of place in both. At the opening of his story, we find ourselves at McGill in 1962 and 2012. But the real problem lies elsewhere: on campus, a psychiatrist is conducting dangerous and unethical experiments on his patients. The writer’s uncle, Nab Safi, knows something about it, but soon he won’t be around to tell his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so begins an investigation in which time, place, memory, and people collide. A mother in the Lebanese ghetto bets her son in a game of dice to settle her debts. Dinosaurs are resurrected. An odd gun will be used to determine the outcome for those who truly believe. A torn old photo and a gothic swimming pool lead to the disturbing depths of Ravenscrag, a mournful manor with 36 chambers…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavenscrag\u003c\/em\u003e is an intriguing and truly original blend of retro science fiction and autobiography. It’s about resilience, literature as remedy, and ultimately, it’s a novel about survival through storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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At the opening of his story, we find ourselves at McGill in 1962 and 2012. But the real problem lies elsewhere: on campus, a psychiatrist is conducting dangerous and unethical experiments on his patients. The writer’s uncle, Nab Safi, knows something about it, but soon he won’t be around to tell his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so begins an investigation in which time, place, memory, and people collide. A mother in the Lebanese ghetto bets her son in a game of dice to settle her debts. Dinosaurs are resurrected. An odd gun will be used to determine the outcome for those who truly believe. A torn old photo and a gothic swimming pool lead to the disturbing depths of Ravenscrag, a mournful manor with 36 chambers…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavenscrag\u003c\/em\u003e is an intriguing and truly original blend of retro science fiction and autobiography. 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You really should read it.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Ian McGillis","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_4":"a useful snapshot of a current of literature being published in Québec at the moment","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Peter McCambridge","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quebec Reads","OtherText_Review_5":"This swift, Montreal-set fiction splices genres and historical eras with such nerve that it rolled onto best-of-the-year lists everywhere from the Governor General’s Awards to La Presse and Le Devoir when it appeared in its original French in 2013.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Brian Lynch","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_6":"[T]hrilling… Ravenscrag gives over with wild abandon to imagination and paranoia as defining traits.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Mookse and the Gripes","OtherText_Review_7":"[A] perfectly bizarre novel…I want to read it again.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Isabella Kratynski","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Magnificent Octopus blog","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A playful, semi-autobiographical, retro science fiction novel about mind control, memory, and madness — based on historical events.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"2016 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic","PrizeYear_0":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2015-01-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A playful, semi-autobiographical, retro science fiction novel about mind control, memory, and madness — based on historical events.","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Ravenscrag
A playful, semi-autobiographical, retro science fiction novel about mind control, memory, and madness — based on historical events.
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{"id":6815473041467,"title":"When the Doves Disappeared","handle":"when-the-doves-disappeared","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the internationally acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e comes a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army — Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime … 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland’s, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras — a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal — Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:45:31-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:41:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Starred Reviews","Anansi International","By (author) Oksanen Sofi","pub date: 2015-02-07","Translated by Rogers Lola"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2295,"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":40210004148283,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893979","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"When the Doves Disappeared - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2295,"weight":381,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770893979","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40210116247611,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893986","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"When the Doves Disappeared - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770893986","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40210116313147,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895478","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"When the Doves Disappeared - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895478","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_72e8d881-a83f-4440-887f-6478ccbcfbfd.jpg?v=1655627538"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_72e8d881-a83f-4440-887f-6478ccbcfbfd.jpg?v=1655627538","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243456548923,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.668,"height":2702,"width":1805,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_72e8d881-a83f-4440-887f-6478ccbcfbfd.jpg?v=1655627538"},"aspect_ratio":0.668,"height":2702,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_72e8d881-a83f-4440-887f-6478ccbcfbfd.jpg?v=1655627538","width":1805}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the internationally acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e comes a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army — Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime … 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland’s, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras — a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal — Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487002299","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487006686","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770890343","BASICMainSubject":"FIC019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Literary","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOFI OKSANEN\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Finnish Estonian novelist and playwright. Her novel \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e won the Prix Femina and the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and \u003cem\u003eWhen the Doves Disappeared\u003c\/em\u003e was the winner of the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her previous novel, \u003cem\u003eNorma\u003c\/em\u003e, was a #1 bestseller in Finland and was a finalist for the Young Aleksis Literature Prize and the New Academy Prize in Literature.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eOksanen was recently awarded a Medal of Honour by the Ukrainian Association in Finland. 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Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. 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As a reader, one is drawn into the story by the text’s transmission of strong emotions: rage, disgust, grief, and compassion. But above all it is fear that constantly trembles over each page. The plot creates an atmosphere like that of le Carré.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Östgöta-Correspondenten (Sweden)","OtherText_Review_1":"Suspenseful, moving, horrifying, and very skillfully written.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Helsingborgs Dagblad (Sweden)","OtherText_Review_2":"Sofi Oksanen is the biggest Nordic author of the moment . . . What a remarkable writing ability this young Finnish woman possesses . . . She writes with a prose that is constantly alive and pulsating without for a second losing the perfect pitch.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Allehanda (Sweden)","OtherText_Review_3":"With her new novel, Sofi Oksanen demonstrates that she belongs in the premier league of literature . . . In many ways it can be said to have a kinship with the great Russian classics . . . The story also offers a lot of suspense and many surprising twists . . . What a unique literary talent she possesses.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Dagsavisen (Norway)","OtherText_Review_4":"Meticulously precise prose . . . This is powerful fiction that stirs history, war crimes, and psychology into a compelling mix.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Joanne Wilkinson","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_5":"Oksanen depicts civilian life in wartime and under communist oppression in rich historical detail, skillfully manipulating chronology and threading clues subtly throughout the narrative as suspense builds. Highly recommended.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Reba Leidling","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Library Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"Fascinating.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_7":"Great thriller about a part of the world not well-known to Western readers. Sofi Oksanen is a writer to watch.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Margaret Cannon","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":". . . her research and dogged writing bring to life an era of staggering deprivation — farms gone fallow, sugar rationed, horses shot and lines painted up the back of women’s legs to mimic stockings.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"John Freeman","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_9":"The fragmented narrative, adeptly translated by Rogers, switches between the Third Reich and the height of Soviet power, using these two time periods to make ideal use of dramatic irony, to render understandable collusion with the enemy as well as portray its consequences, and to evoke sympathy for a man whose ambition leads him to commit terrible atrocities. Oksanen manages to relate these stories without horror or judgment, and reminds the reader that, whatever else people in wartime may do, they are human creatures, and not the one-dimensional monsters that history makes them seem to be.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A chillingly suspenseful new novel that opens up a little-known chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2015-02-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A chillingly suspenseful new novel that opens up a little-known chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia.","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
When the Doves Disappeared
A chillingly suspenseful new novel that opens up a little-known chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia.
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{"id":6815472353339,"title":"Our Endless Numbered Days","handle":"our-endless-numbered-days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"Both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is combined with some very dark undertones.\" — Desmond Elliott Prize Jury\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of \u003cem\u003eWinter’s Bone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Outlander\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1976 Peggy Hillcoat is eight. 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Our Endless Numbered Days
A powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.
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Captive
Captive throws you into the mind of a woman who wakes to find herself in a terrifying situation: she’s confined to a small grey room with no memory.
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The Lake
A mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad.
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{"id":6815267160123,"title":"The Butcher's Hook","handle":"the-butchers-hook","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne Jaccob is coming of age in late eighteenth-century London, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor — a great friend of her father’s — and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon Onions, she begins to realize just how powerless she is in Victorian society. Anne is watchful, cunning, and bored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer saviour appears in the form of Fub, the butcher’s boy. Their romance is both a great spur and an excitement. Anne knows she is doomed to a loveless marriage to Onions and she is determined to escape with Fub and be his mistress. But will Fub ultimately be her salvation or damnation? And how far will she go to get what she wants?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDark and sweeping, \u003cem\u003eThe Butcher’s Hook\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly textured debut featuring one of the most memorable characters in fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:57-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:49:06-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Ellis Janet","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2016-03-05"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"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":40209203691579,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000998","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Butcher's Hook - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2295,"weight":399,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000998","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209314611259,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001001","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Butcher's Hook - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001001","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209315135547,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001018","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Butcher's Hook - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001018","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1df9ce5e-2ca1-423d-b4ac-d2c916b455ad.jpg?v=1655624196"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1df9ce5e-2ca1-423d-b4ac-d2c916b455ad.jpg?v=1655624196","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243413786683,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.66,"height":2400,"width":1584,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1df9ce5e-2ca1-423d-b4ac-d2c916b455ad.jpg?v=1655624196"},"aspect_ratio":0.66,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1df9ce5e-2ca1-423d-b4ac-d2c916b455ad.jpg?v=1655624196","width":1584}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eAnne Jaccob is coming of age in late eighteenth-century London, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor — a great friend of her father’s — and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon Onions, she begins to realize just how powerless she is in Victorian society. Anne is watchful, cunning, and bored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer saviour appears in the form of Fub, the butcher’s boy. Their romance is both a great spur and an excitement. Anne knows she is doomed to a loveless marriage to Onions and she is determined to escape with Fub and be his mistress. But will Fub ultimately be her salvation or damnation? And how far will she go to get what she wants?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDark and sweeping, \u003cem\u003eThe Butcher’s Hook\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly textured debut featuring one of the most memorable characters in fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Anne Jaccob, a nineteen-year old daughter of a wealthy merchant falls in love with Fub, the butcher’s son — an imperfect match.
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{"id":6815266635835,"title":"Fever at Dawn","handle":"fever-at-dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five-year-old Holocaust survivor Miklós is being shipped from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Gotland, Sweden, to receive treatment at the Larbro Hospital. Here he is sentenced to death again: he is diagnosed with tuberculosis and his doctors inform him that he has six months to live. But Miklós decides to wage war on his own fate: he writes 117 letters to 117 Hungarian girls, all of whom are being treated in the Swedish camps, with the aim of eventually choosing a wife from among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred kilometres away, in another Swedish rehabilitation camp, nineteen-year-old Lili receives Miklós’s letter. Since she is bedridden for three weeks due to a serious kidney problem, out of boredom — and curiosity — she decides to write back.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe slightly formal exchange of letters becomes increasingly intimate. 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But Miklós decides to wage war on his own fate: he writes 117 letters to 117 Hungarian girls, all of whom are being treated in the Swedish camps, with the aim of eventually choosing a wife from among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred kilometres away, in another Swedish rehabilitation camp, nineteen-year-old Lili receives Miklós’s letter. Since she is bedridden for three weeks due to a serious kidney problem, out of boredom — and curiosity — she decides to write back.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe slightly formal exchange of letters becomes increasingly intimate. When the two finally manage to meet, they fall in love and are determined to marry, despite the odds that are against them.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBased on the original letters written by Miklós and Lili (ninety-six altogether), \u003cem\u003eFever at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e is a tale of passion, striving, and betrayal; true and false friendships; doubt and faith; and the redeeming power of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487001056","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001056\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","guide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001056\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=guide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"historical fiction; romance; ww2; wwII; world war two; world war II; translation; translated; epistolary; holocaust; eastern europe; war; post wwii; hungary; hungarian; historical; falling in love; eastern european; letters; writing letters; sick; tuberculosis; based on a true story; based on real life; wartime; sickness; health; looking for love","NumberOfPages":"304","OtherText_Accolades_0":"A magnificent novel, tonally flawless, its humour defiant in the face of vast tragedy.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Author of Gilgamesh, The Good Parents, and The Golden Age","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Fever at Dawn belongs to the canon of extraordinary true stories about love and war and the power of letters. Dramatic, compassionate, and deeply moving, this unforgettable story reminds us that the Holocaust is not only history, it’s a warning.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Author of Prayer for the Stolen and Widow Basquiat: A Love Story","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Fever at Dawn is a riveting and high-spirited journey from the brink of death toward life, a novel that asserts the power of love in a world newly devastated by unspeakable hate. With courage, humour, and unfailing emotional honesty, Péter Gárdos illuminates the incredible power of the human will — the drive not just to stay alive, but to fight for a life worth celebrating.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Péter Gárdos gives us the extraordinary tale of his parents’ courage, faith and love in the aftermath of the Holocaust … This book is a testament to the power of good to heal broken spirits, of love to empower hope, and of faith to sustain a celebration of life that could be shared down the generations … Gárdos shows that we survive together. It is not the past but the sharing of our humanity that enables individuals and societies to build new futures. It is the decision to trust life’s goodness and to act from it that enables us to thrive collectively. This is a powerful story for all of us, for today.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Dr. Edith Eva Eger, Clinical Psychologist, Auschwitz Survivor, and author of The Choice","OtherText_Accolades_4":"Books don’t make me cry. Fever At Dawn did. Drawing you in with pathos and playful wit,it squeezes the heart with sorrow and leaves it expanded with joy and love.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Gabor Maté M.D., author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction","OtherText_Accolades_5":"The impossibly moving story of two damaged youths who forge from their amour fou a love that will light the decades ahead. With playfulness and charm, with iron conviction, Fever at Dawn will convince you that it’s possible not only to survive the worst of human hell, but to transcend it.","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name","OtherText_Review_0":"Like other writers of fictionalised memoir — Karl Ove Knausgaard and Elena Ferrante come to mind — Gardos’s novel gains an extra dimension when the narrative reverts into the present tense, and he movingly considers the words his parents don’t write to each other in their letters … There is a timeless quality to Fever at Dawn, a kind of classical romanticism. Trite as it sounds, bromides such as “love conquers all” carry real weight when written in the context of Lili and Miklos’s story. Gardos’s fascinating novel is sure to become a staple in book clubs.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"The Australian","OtherText_Review_1":"Deeply moving … There is little in this story of the horrors of Belsen and forced labour on starvation rations, and much of friendship, determined persistence, and transcendent love.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Otago Daily Times","OtherText_Review_2":"[Fever at Dawn] has the sweetness of The Rosie Project and the pathos of The Fault in Our Stars … A book to fall in love with.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Herald Sun","OtherText_Review_3":"A poignant, ultimately uplifting story of how the longing for love and family can defy tragedy and terror.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Sunday Express","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2016-04-30","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Fever at Dawn
A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487001889","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487006020","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770893832","BASICMainSubject":"FIC044000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Women","BiographicalNote":"Monia Mazigh holds a Ph.D. in finance from McGill University. In 2009, she published her memoir, \u003cem\u003eHope and Despair\u003c\/em\u003e, about her fight to free her husband, Maher Arar, from a Syrian jail. Her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eMiroirs et mirages\u003c\/em\u003e, published originally in French, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award.","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Women","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubject_0":"FIC044000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC019000","ContributorBio_0":"Monia Mazigh holds a Ph.D. in finance from McGill University. In 2009, she published her memoir, \u003cem\u003eHope and Despair\u003c\/em\u003e, about her fight to free her husband, Maher Arar, from a Syrian jail. 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This is the literary quest undertaken by Monia Mazigh in her novel about revolutions and families, about the Bread Riots of Tunisia and the Arab Spring. How do women come of age as dissidents? The difficult secrets shared by mothers and daughters are universal in this thoroughly imagined narrative in which a Canadian story is, necessarily, a story of the world.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Kim Echlin, author of Under the Visible Life","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is Monia Mazigh’s second work of fiction with Anansi. Her first, \u003cem\u003eMirrors and Mirages\u003c\/em\u003e, was widely praised for the authentic depiction of the lives of Muslim women.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect for book clubs, this novel weaves together the experiences of two women: a mother and her Canadian-born daughter set against the backdrop of political chaos and revolution without striking a false note. The novel offers a glimpse into what it’s like to live inside a revolution, specifically, the Bread Riots in Tunisia in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia in 2010, which resonated across the Arab world and is considered the first uprising of the Arab Spring.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis subject matter is timely and important and will undoubtedly lend itself to the intelligent, politically engaged female reader.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eHope Has Two Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to those with an interest in the history of the Arab world and immigration politics; fans of multicultural, multi-generational narratives; and fans of literature in translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe two girls were called Reem and Farah. They giggled to themselves as they glanced at one another, flickering their eyelids. One had her hair done pageboy style, slicked down, and a button nose, light-coloured skin, and slightly slanted eyes that made her look like a cat about to pounce. The other was constantly adjusting her abundant chestnut hair with the back of her hand. Her black eyes accentuated the whiteness of her skin; a few reddish blotches marked her oval face. Reem and Farah looked me over carefully when they saw me come in with Donia. Even before we were introduced, I knew they wouldn’t like me. My ripped jeans, my multiple earrings worn in a line along my earlobe, the high forehead I’d inherited from my mom, and my blues eyes, just like my dad’s: everything about me told them just how foreign I was. Even my brown and hopelessly curly hair that stood out in corkscrew-like tufts from my head — another hand-me-down from Mom and a source of wonder, of compliments, and admiration during my childhood in Canada — was not enough for them to see me as a Tunisian. Me, the daughter born of the marriage of Nadia the Tunisian and Alex the Canadian. In their eyes, I was some kind of strange mix, a hybrid, a monstrosity produced by the meeting of two distinct worlds but clearly belonging to neither.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Monia Mazigh's second novel is an engaging book in which choices abound for young Muslim women.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"The Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_1":"Both readable and relevant, especially since the reverberations of the Jasmine Revolution are still being felt today.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"An important work of fiction.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"Monia Mazigh’s latest novel takes readers through a cycle of hope, uprising, despair and hope again in a story of two girls awakened by civil unrest.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Hope Has Two Daughters adds significantly to a growing body of literature by and about Muslim women and sheds fresh light on a country still experiencing its own coming of age.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2017-01-28","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Hope Has Two Daughters
Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.
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{"id":6814265638971,"title":"The Longest Year","handle":"the-longest-year","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” meets Junot Diaz’s \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao \u003c\/i\u003ein Daniel Grenier’s epic novel, which tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. 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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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Oksanen creates intricate characters and imagery.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"Oksanen, author of the internationally bestselling Purge, has a rather delightful imagination, and it is a wonder to watch her spin her outrageous story with the utter seriousness of your average thriller.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Star Tribune","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Young Aleksis Literature Prize","PrizeYear_0":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-09-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Norma
A spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.
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{"id":6814243291195,"title":"Fear","handle":"fear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA masterpiece of psychological suspense for fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Need to Talk About Kevin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandolph Tiefenthaler insists he had a normal childhood, though he grew up with a father who kept thirty loaded guns in the house. A modestly successful architect with an attractive, intelligent wife, Rebecca, and two children, Randolph finds his life turned upside down when his father, a man he loves yet has always feared, is imprisoned for murder.\u003ci\u003e… \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFear\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the twisted events leading up to his father’s incarceration. It begins when Randolph and his family move into a new building and meet their neighbour, Dieter Tiberius, the peculiar yet seemingly friendly man living in the basement apartment. As the Tiefenthalers settle into their home, they become increasingly disturbed as Dieter’s strange behaviour turns malevolent — sending erotic letters to Rebecca, spying, making accusations of child abuse, and filing police reports he against the Tiefenthalers. 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A masterpiece of psychological suspense for fans of The Dinner and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Both an outsider and, gradually, an insider, Walker finds work as a journalist, and tries to piece his life together as America is beginning to come apart: riven by social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption, and the collapse of the inner cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic for the modern world, it is a tale of damaged people trying to find kindness in the world, of cynicism and paranoia, and of redemption. Robin Robertson's fluid verse pans with filmic immediacy across the postwar urban scene — and into the heart of an unforgettable character. \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-crossing work of stunning originality, beauty, and immediacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006242","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487006242\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"crossover fiction; world war ii; death of the american dream; haunting; atmospheric; flashbacks; disillusionment; gentrification; vietnam; mccarthyism; jazz; cold war; korean war; man booker prize; days without end sebastian barry; this accident of being lost leanne betasomasake simpson; wheras; poems; notebooks of malte laurids brigge; perry mason; poetry lovers","NumberOfPages":"240","OtherText_Accolades_0":"Robin Robertson is instantly recognizable as a poet of vivid authority, commanding a surprised, accurate language of his own. The evocative truth and the crystalline ring of his words, line by line, make a kind of hope in themselves.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"W.S. Merwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner The Shadow of Sirius","OtherText_Accolades_1":"An inter-genre tour de force, The Long Take is a restless reimagining of conventional poetics. Through the poem’s protagonist, Robertson has cast a national, cultural, psychological, and class outsider of vibrant and seedy post-war America into a palpable anti-hero eerily resonant with our contemporary world. With syncopated rhythms, staccato dialogue, and jump-scenes, the book weaves dizzying, jazz-like meditations on PTSD, masculinity, betrayal, and salvation by embodying, in sound, scent, and sixth-sense, one of America’s most hopeful and devastating decades. The result is a ravishing achievement.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Ocean Vuong, author of the T.S. Eliot Prize winner Night Sky with Exit Wounds","OtherText_Review_0":"A propulsive verbal tour de force . . . The Long Take is an audacious and often brilliant book. Poetry needn’t be a call to action but this one raises many questions, not the least of which is: What and whom should we root for in today’s world of diminished dreams?","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_1":"Robin Robertson, one of the finest lyric poets of the age, flexes his artistic reach in a continuous narrative of more than two hundred pages, a beautiful, vigorous, and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring. Here we have a poet, at the peak of his symphonic powers, taking a great risk, and succeeding gloriously . . . The Long Take is a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful, fast-paced — the old-time movie reviewer’s vocabulary is apt to the case — and almost unbearably moving.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_2":"As a work of art, this dreamlike exploration is a triumph; as a timely allegory, it is disturbingly profound . . . Robertson’s The Long Take is one of the first major achievements of twenty-first-century English-language literature.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e offers a wholly unique literary voice and form. A verse novel with photographs, it manages to evoke with exceptional vividness aspects of post-World War Two history that are rarely parsed together. Swinging effortlessly between combat with its traumatic aftermath, and the brute redevelopment of American cities, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e shows us the ravages of capitalism as a continuation of war-time violence by other means. It is also a bold, eloquent homage to cinema as perhaps the only medium in which the true history of America has been preserved. This is a genre-defying novel. Cutting from battlefield to building demolitions in San Francisco and LA, to the killing of black men on the streets of America today, it imports into the very form of the writing one of the most famous film techniques: cross-cutting. You could be in the cinema, or listening to an elegy, or reading the story of one man’s devastating experience as he tries to rebuild the shards of his life after the war. A pageant of loss, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e is also a lyrical tribute to the power of writing and image to convey, and somehow survive, historic and ongoing suffering and injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Man Booker Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the inner journey of Canadian veteran Walker as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco attempting to rebuild his life after living through the horrors of war in Europe. In poetry of the utmost beauty, Robin Robertson interweaves themes from the great age of black and white films, the destruction of communities as cities destroy the old to build the new, the horrors of McCarthyism and the terrible psychological wounds left by war. Robertson shows us things we’d rather not see and asks us to face things we’d rather not face. But with the pulsing narrative drive of classic film noir, the vision of a poet, and the craft of a novelist, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e courageously and magnificently boosts the Walter Scott Prize into its next decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_5":"Composed in a mixture of verse and prose, The Long Take is a book with a big heart. The beauty of the language will seduce the reader from the very start. How do we put ourselves back together in a damaged world? How do we keep our conscience alive and ourselves well-balanced when everything else is slipping away, changing too fast? How much of the past should we allow ourselves to even remember when all that matters is to stay in the present moment, to stay afloat? By taking this long journey west — across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles — Robin Robertson tells a universal story. With its undeniable beauty; quiet, modest but strong pull, this book will shift something in your soul. By the time you have finished reading it, you won't quite be the same.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Goldsmiths Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e remarkably captures linguistic styles of 1940s American writing — Saroyan and Steinbeck. As it progresses into the mid-50s we’re hearing Ginsberg and Baldwin … you will be washed in all these when you read this poem … Robertson has chosen a supremely uncomfortable, recognizable flashpoint in U.S. history, an almost perfect mirror image of the nation today: crude, newly unleashed material ambitions mix with off-the-chart levels of fear and paranoia. The only difference is that then it was Russkies and immigrants, and now, uh …\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Sunday Herald","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeName_0":"Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Roehampton Poetry Prize","PrizeName_2":"Goldsmiths Prize","PrizeName_3":"Man Booker Prize","PrizeName_4":"An Economist Book of the Year","PrizeName_5":"Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","PrizeYear_5":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-10-30","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
The Long Take
The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.
