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{"id":6811314126907,"title":"This Lovely City","handle":"this-lovely-city","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London, \u003ci\u003eThis Lovely City\u003c\/i\u003e shows that new arrivals have always been the prime suspects — but that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon, 1950.\u003c\/i\u003e With the war over and London still rebuilding, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for labour. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the \u003ci\u003eEmpire Windrush\u003c\/i\u003e, he’s rented a tiny room in south London and fallen in love with the girl next door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaying in Soho’s jazz clubs by night and pacing the streets as a postman by day, Lawrie has poured his heart into his new home — and it’s alive with possibility. Until one morning, while crossing a misty common, he makes a terrible discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the local community rallies, fingers of blame point at those who were recently welcomed with open arms. And before long, London’s newest arrivals become the prime suspects in a tragedy that threatens to tear the city apart. Immersive, poignant, and utterly compelling, Louise Hare’s debut examines the complexities of love and belonging, and teaches us that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T17:16:52-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T12:40:51-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Anansi International","By (author) Hare Louise","pub date: 2020-04-07"],"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":40191026626619,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007058","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"This Lovely City - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":452,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487007058","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191101599803,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007065","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"This Lovely City - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007065","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191101632571,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007072","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"This Lovely City - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007072","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a5cb5179-c366-4bb3-bad6-bb97ba263968.jpg?v=1647886753"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a5cb5179-c366-4bb3-bad6-bb97ba263968.jpg?v=1647886753","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"On a blue background there are gold triangles, black triangles, and pink stars and circles. Four people with dark skin tone stand on top of the letters of the title. The letters in all three words of the title are staggered like stairs. One man in a suit plays the clarinet. A couple dances on separate letters. Another man in a suit plays the saxophone. Text: This Lovely City. Louise Hare. “A must-read for fans of Zadie Smith.” Kirkus Reviews. “Full of life and love… It made my heart soar” Stacey Halls.","id":21748977467451,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"width":1651,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a5cb5179-c366-4bb3-bad6-bb97ba263968.jpg?v=1647886753"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a5cb5179-c366-4bb3-bad6-bb97ba263968.jpg?v=1647886753","width":1651}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London, \u003ci\u003eThis Lovely City\u003c\/i\u003e shows that new arrivals have always been the prime suspects — but that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon, 1950.\u003c\/i\u003e With the war over and London still rebuilding, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for labour. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the \u003ci\u003eEmpire Windrush\u003c\/i\u003e, he’s rented a tiny room in south London and fallen in love with the girl next door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaying in Soho’s jazz clubs by night and pacing the streets as a postman by day, Lawrie has poured his heart into his new home — and it’s alive with possibility. Until one morning, while crossing a misty common, he makes a terrible discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the local community rallies, fingers of blame point at those who were recently welcomed with open arms. And before long, London’s newest arrivals become the prime suspects in a tragedy that threatens to tear the city apart. Immersive, poignant, and utterly compelling, Louise Hare’s debut examines the complexities of love and belonging, and teaches us that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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There was something strange about the way she was moving, and he found himself slowing down. She was pacing up and down in front of the pond, looking for something. Her gait was lopsided, and, when she drew closer, he saw that her face was wet from tears that were blinding her. She didn’t notice Lawrie until the last moment, suddenly aiming towards him and coming up short as she took him in properly. She held herself rigid, her mouth gasping for air that her lungs didn’t seem to want to accept.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Ma’am?” Lawrie swung his leg and dismounted, making his movements slow so that she didn’t spook. “You all right? Can I help you?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eShe looked over her shoulder but turned back to him, fixing her eyes on his uniform. Whatever she’d seen was more frightening than one skinny black man. And there was no one else in sight. “You — you’re … a postman?” Her tongue tripped as she spoke.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Yes, ma’am. Do you need help?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eShe nodded and pointed in the direction she’d come from, a ragged sob creasing her body.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHe couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary at first. There was the pond, and there he spied the terrier. The small dog was soaked through. Barking urgently at him, it ran back towards the water.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“The pond.” The woman squeezed out the words, and he noticed now that her hands were filthy, her coat spattered with mud.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“There’s something in the pond?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eIt was useless. She had begun to shiver, her teeth actually chattering as shock took hold. Lawrie laid his bike down on the grass and headed towards the pond on foot. The dog was still barking in a fury, running laps between the edge of the pond and the path.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“What you got, boy?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe dog splashed into the water, checking back to make sure he was being followed. There was a bundle there, a dirty blanket that once had been white. Lawrie crouched by the edge next to a smaller set of footprints that must have belonged to the woman. It didn’t look like much, this wad of sodden wool, but that didn’t stop fear from squeezing his chest tight as he reached out with his right hand, the palm of his left sinking into freezing mud as he tried to keep his balance.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHe strained his arm and caught an inch of fabric between two fingers. Pulling gently, the bundle moved closer and he grabbed a tighter hold. The wool was heavy with water. White and yellow embroidered flowers peeked out from beneath the pond filth. Daisies. When he lifted it the bundle was heavier than he’d anticipated, but it wasn’t the weight that sent him crashing to the ground — only sheer luck landing him onto the bank rather than into the water. His heart pounded his ribs so hard that he glanced down at his chest, expecting to see it burst out through his coat, scattering buttons onto the ground.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe blanket lay there on the grass, the bundle coming apart. A baby’s arm had escaped, along with a shock of dark curly hair and a glimpse of a cheek. It could have been a doll, but one touch had been enough to convince him that it wasn’t. The hand was frozen stiff but the skin gave as his fingers had brushed against it.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eSomeone had left a baby in the pond to die. A baby whose skin was as dark as Lawrie’s.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Louise Hare’s debut novel pairs a poignant tale of young love and shameful prejudice with a twisting mystery, all embedded in a historical moment with keen contemporary resonance. Tantalizing ingredients to be sure, yet it’s her steady, calm prose, and the animating authenticity of her material that make [This Lovely City] so hard to resist.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_1":"Tenderly evokes the experiences of the Windrush generation in postwar London.","OtherText_Review_10":"Poignant and compelling.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Hello!","OtherText_Review_11":"An exciting ride … I demolished it in two sittings.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Daily Record","OtherText_Review_12":"Vividly captures the life of the times, and the trials faced by the Caribbean immigrants who were enticed to come to Britain by the government, but who faced discrimination and economic hurdles in society … [Louise Hare’s] characters are well developed … and give life to the immigrant community … This Lovely City’s many storylines — prejudice, romance, dark hidden secrets, immigrant life — are engaging and paint a vivid picture of life in a nation that is trying to reshape itself in the years following a devastating world war and new economic and societal challenges.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Independant","OtherText_Review_2":"You’ll root for Lawrie and Evie and won’t fail to notice the timely message of Hare’s beautifully told tale.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Cosmopolitan","OtherText_Review_3":"This Lovely City tells the story of a group of people searching for a place to belong and discovering the power of persistence and hope to carry them through.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_4":"Hare’s absorbing narrative builds a compelling portrait of immigrants struggling to belong to a country that needs but doesn’t really want them . . . A must read for fans of Zadie Smith and Call the Midwife.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_5":"This hotly anticipated debut offers a vivid portrait of the immigrant experience in postwar London.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_6":"You’ll be rooting for the pair from start to finish.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Glamour","OtherText_Review_7":"[A] mistress of suspense, Hare keeps us guessing to the last page. I loved the postwar atmosphere: bombed, broken London as a visual metaphor for the story’s violence and racism.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"A well-told mystery, a powerful depiction of the prejudice experienced by the Windrush generation, and a poignant love story, This Lovely City is a must read.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_9":"Expect to be obsessed … [A book] you need to know about.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Good Housekeeping","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
This Lovely City
An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.
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{"id":6811306885179,"title":"I Am Ariel Sharon","handle":"i-am-ariel-sharon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bold and innovative novel, \u003ci\u003eI Am Ariel Sharon\u003c\/i\u003e dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wives, and the mysterious nurse Rita. Like latter-day Greek furies, they lament the brutality of his life and maltreatment of the Palestinian people and demand he face up to his part in the bloodshed of Israel’s wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is an extraordinary, magical, and impassioned story of nearly impossible empathy, the singular work of a novelist in full flight.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T17:15:46-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T12:33:05-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Arachnide Editions","By (author) El-Ghadban Yara","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2020-11-17","Translated by Grady Wayne"],"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":40191006113851,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007973","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I Am Ariel Sharon - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2295,"weight":209,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487007973","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191006244923,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007980","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I Am Ariel Sharon - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007980","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191006343227,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007997","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I Am Ariel Sharon - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007997","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bb729d3a-c8de-49ff-b7be-bf8f6a028137.jpg?v=1654444813"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bb729d3a-c8de-49ff-b7be-bf8f6a028137.jpg?v=1654444813","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170967703611,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bb729d3a-c8de-49ff-b7be-bf8f6a028137.jpg?v=1654444813"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bb729d3a-c8de-49ff-b7be-bf8f6a028137.jpg?v=1654444813","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bold and innovative novel, \u003ci\u003eI Am Ariel Sharon\u003c\/i\u003e dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wives, and the mysterious nurse Rita. Like latter-day Greek furies, they lament the brutality of his life and maltreatment of the Palestinian people and demand he face up to his part in the bloodshed of Israel’s wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is an extraordinary, magical, and impassioned story of nearly impossible empathy, the singular work of a novelist in full flight.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Here resides the great intelligence of Yara El-Ghadban’s book, which, taking up and going beyond Spinoza’s famous formula, reaffirms that literature can at once laugh, cry, hate, and understand.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Lettres québécoises","OtherText_Review_1":"Yara El-Ghadban paints a picture of a country devastated by an ethical shortcoming that affects everyone, Palestinians and Israelis. Through this chorus of female voices and through the character of a nurse who reads to the patient, she calls for wisdom.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"TelQuel","OtherText_Review_2":"[Yara El-Ghadban’s] prose forces us to look anew. Readers accustomed to the repetitive stories of textbooks and the media will be transported into the eye of the hurricane and enveloped in the close proximity and conflagration of war … and carried away by a pen that combines history and feeling with extraordinary panache. Don’t wait. Read this book now.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Journal des Alternatives","OtherText_Review_3":"One can only bow before the sensibility and striving for objectivity of someone who writes with extraordinary fluidity and who the stage would do well to discover.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Blue Metropolis Literary Diversity Award","PrizeName_1":"Prix Français Hors-Concours","PrizeName_2":"Prix Hors-Concours des Lycéens","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2020-11-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.
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{"id":6811233976379,"title":"Securing Democracy","handle":"securing-democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this riveting follow-up to his acclaimed international bestseller \u003ci\u003eNo Place to Hide\u003c\/i\u003e, Glenn Greenwald documents the courageous fight for press freedom in Brazil, where authoritarianism and rampant corruption threaten the most fundamental principles of democracy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2019, award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald writes in his gripping new book, “a series of events commenced that once again placed me at the heart of a sustained and explosive journalistic controversy.” New reporting by Greenwald and a team of Brazilian journalists had brought to light stunning information about grave corruption, deceit, and wrongdoing by the most powerful political actors in Brazil, his home since 2005. 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Greenwald documents the courageous fight for press freedom in Brazil, where authoritarianism and rampant corruption threaten the most fundamental principles of democracy.
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{"id":6811233386555,"title":"Songs for Angel","handle":"songs-for-angel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe ninth novel in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s extraordinary Soifs cycle, \u003ci\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned interrogation of violence and hate that takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the penultimate installment of the magnificent and ambitious Soifs cycle, widely regarded as one of the most original and ambitious endeavors ever to be undertaken in contemporary literature, renowned novelist Marie-Claire Blais once again marries the highest artistic standards with the most pressing human and political concerns. 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She has garnered numerous prestigious awards and honours, including the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and she is frequently talked about as a possible winner of the Nobel Prize. In 2019, she was the subject of a major profile in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, which called her “one of the most distinctive and original living writers of fiction.” A new work from Blais is always a literary event.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE PENULTIMATE INSTALLMENT OF BLAIS’S MAGNUM OPUS:\u003c\/strong\u003e Blais’s ten-novel Soifs cycle, of which \u003cem\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/em\u003e is the ninth installment, has been hailed as one of the most remarkable literary undertakings in literature. It’s been compared to the works of Virginia Woolf in its literate, hyper-aware depiction of contemporary life. Readers who have been following the series in English since the beginning in 1997 will pick up this eagerly awaited new volume, and the cycle finds new readers every year.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA NEW AND ACCLAIMED TRANSLATOR TAKES ON THE SERIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e Katia Grubisic has already been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation for her work on David Clerson’s \u003cem\u003eFrères\u003c\/em\u003e in 2016. She’s also an award-winning poet. The Soifs series has strengthened the reputation of several major translators already. Sheila Fischman and Nigel Spencer both garnered major acclaim for their work on these books. 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As racist violence dominates headlines and international conversations, Blais’s unique depiction of these bigotries is more important than ever.\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":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/em\u003e is a daring aesthetic experiment and a powerful appeal to solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"The Walrus","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eA richly layered, emotionally resonant text, one that rewards readers who come to Blais’s work for the first time as well as those who have journeyed with her from the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Ninth in the Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel interrogates violence and hate and takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2021-07-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Ninth in the Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel interrogates violence and hate and takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Songs for Angel
Ninth in the Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel interrogates violence and hate and takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.
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{"id":6811231879227,"title":"Dog Park","handle":"dog-park","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Sofi Oksanen, the internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a captivating story about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that still haunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHelsinki, 2016\u003c\/em\u003e. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together — looking at their own children being raised by other people. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMoving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, \u003cem\u003eDog Park \u003c\/em\u003eis a keenly observed, dark, and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered on a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T12:08:10-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:46:31-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Oksanen Sofi","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2021-10-05","Translated by Witesman Owen F."],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40190664048699,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008918","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dog Park - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":494,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487008918","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40190664212539,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008925","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dog Park - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487008925","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22453097889851,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.671,"height":1425,"width":956,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697"},"aspect_ratio":0.671,"height":1425,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697","width":956}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Sofi Oksanen, the internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a captivating story about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that still haunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHelsinki, 2016\u003c\/em\u003e. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together — looking at their own children being raised by other people. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMoving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, \u003cem\u003eDog Park \u003c\/em\u003eis a keenly observed, dark, and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered on a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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But I didn’t; I didn’t even turn my head when the stranger sat down at the end of the bench with a slowness to her movements that suggested an expectation of pain. Hoping she would understand that I wasn’t looking for conversation, I loudly rustled the pages of the book resting in my lap. I wasn’t in this park looking for company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book belonged to the library located just a stone’s throw from the park and its fenced dog run. Carrying a bag bulging with novels made my stops at the park look natural. Whenever anyone happened to ask, I told them how much I liked animals and watching them play but that due to my allergies, I couldn’t keep a pet of my own. The woman sitting next to me also didn’t have a dog, I noticed, but otherwise my attention was focused on the street surrounding the park. Furtively I glanced at my watch, although I knew I was on time. I was afraid I’d come for nothing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe woman extended her legs out straight and stretched, as people often do when considering how to initiate conversation — a yawn, a straightening of a jacket, or a hand gesture laying the foundation for comments about the weather or other trivialities. However, no question came about my book nor any platitudes about the temperature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScooting to the other end of the bench, I increased my distance from the interloper. Recently I’d begun watching in a new way the other people idling in the park. The retirees and unemployed people strolling here just needed an excuse to get out. Perhaps someday I would be like that, after I no longer had any actual reason for visiting the park or any schedule to my life. Then I too would want my neighbors to hear the bang of my front door as a sign that I was busy and had friends to visit, and then I would come here to be part of the world by watching other people’s lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA white miniature schnauzer approaching the dog park received admiring glances from passersby. My companion on the bench perked up. As she leaned forward slightly, I expected her to finally screw up the courage to say something, maybe about the schnauzer’s photogenic grooming or its exemplary obedience, but the woman remained silent. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing her incredibly popular \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e, Sofi Oksanen gives us another propulsive thriller about a woman unable to forget her lost child and the web of lies she’s built around herself. 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Dog Park
A ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market.
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The ending is overwhelming, and the chapter on the skinning of a whale is fantastic. Run to buy this book as soon as it arrives at the store!” — Michel Tremblay, winner of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“\u003cem \u003eThe Body of the Beasts \u003c\/em\u003eis a visceral story with wings: rhythmically beating, it both suffocates readers and prepares us to soar.” — \u003cem \u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“\u003cem \u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e is daring and darkly erotic, as emotionally and morally elusive as the characters who roam within it … Wilhelmy’s language is tight yet immersive; there is an underlying melancholy to it, like being alone in a forest with nothing but the sound of rustling leaves. It is rare and delightful to find a novel where language and character move so seamlessly together, hand in hand … A piece of this book will linger.” — \u003cem \u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Sensual and strange.” — \u003cem \u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Uncanny and debaucherous.” — \u003cem \u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“[Wilhelmy] is a meticulous recorder of the dramatic wilderness … Lovely writing.” — \u003cem \u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e “With a miniaturist’s touch, Audrée Wilhelmy creates a singular universe suffused with sap and silence, at once lush to the limit, smothering and amoral … A \u003cem \u003etour de force\u003c\/em\u003e of audacity and sensuality achieved unhesitatingly in full-bodied writing that is precise and without misstep. A brilliant novel that explores from on high an aspect of the human condition too often eluded: our own bestiality.” —\u003cem \u003e Le Devoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Masterful … Finding beauty in unexpected places, be they natural settings or seldom-explored corners of human behaviour, is something Wilhelmy does as well as any young writer in any language.” — \u003cem \u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR AUDRÉE WILHELMY AND \u003cem \u003eLES SANGS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix des lecteurs de l’Hebdo\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix Marie Claire du roman féminin\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix des libraires du Québec\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix France-Québec\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR AUDRÉE WILHELMY AND \u003cem \u003eOSS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Governor General’s Literary Award\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLonglist, Prix des libraires du Québec\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAudrée Wilhelmy is a major force in Quebec literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Resin \u003c\/em\u003eis a companion story to Wilhelmy’s last novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e, featuring the origins of that book’s central family.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eDark magical realism is a burgeoning and exciting genre for female novelists and writers.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"There is something about Audrée Wilhelmy I cannot find anywhere else. It’s in her style, of course. In her method, certainly. In her inventiveness, no doubt. But it goes beyond all that. With Wilhelmy, it lies in the pact she makes with the reader, as if the singularity of the universe she offers us does not come so much from literature, as from witchcraft. An ode to all-powerful freedom: of the body, of the land, of language, and of the feminine.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Voir.ca","OtherText_Review_1":"Like the places she creates, Audrée Wilhelmy’s literary domain is vast and never ceases to dazzle.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lettres québécoises","OtherText_Review_2":"By means of a demanding and chiseled prose, eminently poetic, rich in neologisms and in borrowings from native and northern European languages (several can be found in a very convenient ‘Lexicon’), Wilhelmy draws us into a reality that is both familiar and transfigured, where femininity and nature maintain profound and mysterious relationships.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Nuit Blanche","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e[A] poetic, imaginative tale about the relationship between nature and industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eThe lingering power of the story lies with the vivid imagery Wilhelmy conjures … Susan Ouriou’s translation is a marvel of precision and musicality.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Canadian Notes \u0026amp; Queries","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eWhite Resin\u003c\/em\u003e is an enchanting, heartbreaking novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eWhite Resin \u003c\/em\u003erestores a vision of the Canadian wilderness more in line with Indigenous ideas of a mutually dependent relationship between humanity and the natural environment. As a novel for our ecologically riven moment, it’s particularly powerful. As a lyrical, strange, occasionally mysterious story, it is unlike most anything else you’re likely to read in quite a while.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"That Shakespearean Rag","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eAn ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2022","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2021-09-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eAn ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n"}
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Swearing Is Good for You makes science feel downright celebratory.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Mary Norris","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[From the Introduction]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was about nine years old, I was smacked for calling my little brother a ‘twat.’ I had no idea what a twat was – I thought it was just a silly way of saying ‘twit’ – but that smack taught me that some words are more powerful than others and that I had to be careful how I used them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as you’ve no doubt gathered, that experience didn’t exactly cure me of swearing. In fact it probably went some way towards piquing my fascination with profanity. Since then I’ve had a certain pride in my knack for colourful and well-timed swearing: being a woman in a male-dominated field, I rely on it to camouflage myself as one of the guys. Calling some equipment a piece of shit is often a necessary rite of passage when I join a new team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when I discovered that other scientists have been taking swearing seriously for a long time – and that I’m not the only person who finds judicious profanity useful – I was fucking delighted! I first began to realise there was more to swearing than a bit of banter or blasphemy when I happened to read a study that involved 67 volunteers, a bucket of ice water, a swear word and a stopwatch. I was working in a neuroscience lab at the time and that study changed the course of my research. It set me on a quest to study swearing: why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor example, I’m definitely not the only person who uses swearing as a way of fitting in at work. Research shows that swearing can help build teams in the work place. From the factory floor to the operating theatre, scientists have shown that teams who share the same lexicon of swearing tend to work more effectively together, feel closer, and be more productive than those that don’t. These same studies show that managing stress in the same way that we manage pain – with a fucking good swear – is more effective than any number of team building exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has also helped to develop the field of neuroscience. By providing us with a useful emotional barometer, swearing has been used as a research tool for over 150 years. It has helped us to discover some fascinating things about the structure of the human brain, such as its division into left and right hemispheres, and the role of cerebral structures like the amygdala in the regulation of emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has taught us a great deal about our minds, too. We know that people who learn a second language often find it less stressful to swear in their adopted tongue, which gives us an idea of the childhood developmental stages at which we learn emotions and taboos. Swearing also makes the heart beat faster, and primes us to think aggressive thoughts while, paradoxically, making us less likely to be physically violent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd swearing is a surprisingly flexible part of our linguistic repertoire. It re-invents itself from generation to generation as taboos shift. Profanity has even become part of the way we express positive feelings – we know that football fans use ‘fuck’ just as frequently when they’re happy as when they are angry or frustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat last finding is one of my own. With colleagues at City University, London, I’ve studied thousands of football fans and their bad language during big games. It’s no great surprise that football fans swear, and that they are particularly fond of ‘fuck’ and ‘shit.’ But we noticed something interesting about the ratio between these two swearwords. The ‘fuck-shit’ ratio is a reliable indicator of which team has scored because, it turns out that ‘shit’ is almost universally negative while ‘fuck’ can be a sign of something good or bad. Swearing amongst football fans also isn’t anywhere near as aggressive as you might think; fans on Twitter almost never swear about their opponents and reserve their outbursts for players on their own team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing is one of those things that comes so naturally, and seems so frivolous, that you might be surprised by the number of scientists who are studying it. But neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians have long taken an interest in bad language, and for good reason. 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In exploring the universe of swearing, [Byrne] has lined up some nifty stories.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"Written in an engaging and conversational style . . . Byrne provides a refreshing, entertaining, instructive examination of a ‘surprisingly flexible part of a linguistic repertoire.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2017-11-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","Subtitle":"The Amazing Science of Bad Language"}
Swearing Is Good For You
In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.
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In the Orchard, the Swallows
Named a Book of the Year by both the Guardian and Chapters/Indigo, In the Orchard, the Swallows is a moving story of lost love in war-torn Pakistan.
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{"id":6582739468347,"title":"I Hid My Voice","handle":"i-hid-my-voice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e comes the story, based on real events, of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for concern; nevertheless, Shahaab is ridiculed by others who call him “dumb.” Young Shahaab doesn’t understand what the word means and thinks it is a compliment, until one day his cousin plays a trick on him to prove to everyone that the boy truly is the neighbourhood idiot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen his mother recounts the incident to her husband, Shahaab is crushed to learn that his father also thinks the boy’s speech impediment indicates that his son is an idiot and thus brings shame on the family. 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Tight dialogue and a protagonist who becomes a symbol of hope for a better world.\" — \u003cem\u003eLa Repubblica\u003c\/em\u003e (Italy)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Gripping … an agonizing childhood in the Iran of the ayatollahs, with its revolutionary committees and moral police always lurking.\" — \u003cem\u003eStavanger Aftenblad\u003c\/em\u003e (Norway)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eI Hid My Voice\u003c\/em\u003e] is a new literary sensation. 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I Hid My Voice
The story of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran, based on real events.
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It is more an ode to women, not just of Iran but of societies all over the world, who have had to struggle to get their basic rights.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Faryal Leghari","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Gulf News","OtherText_Review_1":"...this family saga shines a bright light on what it is like to live according [to] the expectations of family and society.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Emily Walz","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Minneapolis Star Tribune","OtherText_Review_2":"[The Book of Fate] thrusts open a window onto the tough choices in all women's lives...","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Nancy Wigston","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"Domestic drama, social revolution, exotic setting and a strong female narrator -- what more does a novel need?","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Charlotte Duggan","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"Saniee has successfully pursued the perennial theme of the potentially explosive interaction between the individual and society, as well as the consequences of discrimination, intolerance and extremism.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Veronica Sen","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Sydney Morning Hearld","OtherText_Review_5":"...this engrossing story is difficult to put down at any juncture.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Tess Heckel","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Historical Novel Society","OtherText_Review_6":"...the novel was enlightening.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Kate Wilson","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Dead Ink","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations","PrizeYear_0":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2013-08-31","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope."}
The Book of Fate
Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.
