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A Boring Wife Settles the Score
The saucy and ever-appealing Diane, now turning fifty and with the wreckage of her marriage behind her, sets off on a new hilarious journey for romance.
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A Family Affair
A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships and a chronicle of contemporary middle-class mores.
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A Florence Diary
A Florence Diary is the charming and vivacious account of Diana Athill’s travels to post-war Florence.
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A Twilight Celebration
The eighth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. A Twilight Celebration is a spellbinding novel brimming with urgent concerns and irrepressible empathy, true to Blais' singular idiom.
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{"id":6582772498491,"title":"A Whole Life","handle":"a-whole-life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The 2017 National Translation Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The 2017 International Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The 2016 Man Booker International Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. 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A Whole Life
The 100,000-copy German bestseller.
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All the Shining People
Beautifully written, these stories depict a search for human connection and an attempt to fit in far from home.
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Atonement
Soucy's brilliant second novel is a captivating and suspenseful examination of guilt.
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Augustino and the Choir of Destruction
The third in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle, this novel is set in a post-September 11 world on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Basic Black with Pearls
In her search for a lover, Shirley sheds her drab existence together with torturous memories of guilt and loss as a Jewish immigrant in Toronto.
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Bonnie Jack
From the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee series, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.
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Interweaving voices and timelines are beautifully served by the pacing of the novel. Its delicate artistry draws us into a richly imagined community — opening out to tackle profound questions of time and mortality and disturbing aspects of our shared history. The style is a metaphor for the subject, subtly resisting clichés of race, slavery, and gender. The translation is precise and lyrical, weaving in the cadences of both poetry and everyday speech. \u003cem\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e evokes the forces that constrain us and those that set us free.” ? 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Then Mayya lost herself to love: a silent passion, but it sent tremors surging through her slight form, night after night, cresting in waves of tears and sighs. These were moments when she truly believed she would not survive the awful force of her longing to see him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer body prostrate, ready for the dawn prayers, she made a whispered oath. By the greatness of God — I want nothing, O Lord, just to see him. I solemnly promise you, Lord, I don’t even want him to look my way … I just want to see him. That’s all I want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother hadn’t given the matter of love any particular thought, since it never would have occurred to her that pale Mayya, so silent and still, would think about anything in this mundane world beyond her threads and the selvages of her fabrics, or that she would hear anything other than the clatter of her sewing machine. Mayya seemed to hardly shift position throughout the day, or even halfway into the night, her form perched quietly on the narrow, straight-backed wood chair in front of the black sewing machine with the image of a butterfly on its side. She barely even lifted her head, unless she needed to look as she groped for her scissors or fished another spool of thread out of the plastic sewing basket which always sat in her small wood utility chest. But Mayya heard everything in the world there was to hear. She noticed the brilliant hues life could have, however motionless her body might be. Her mother was grateful that Mayya’s appetite was so meagre (even if, now and then, she felt vestiges of guilt). She hoped fervently, though she would never have put her hope into words, that one of these days someone would come along who respected Mayya’s talents as a seamstress as much as he might appreciate her abstemious ways. The someone she envisioned would give Mayya a fine wedding procession after which he would take her home with all due ceremony and regard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat someone arrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs usual Mayya was seated on that narrow chair, bent over the sewing machine at the far end of the long sitting room that opened onto the compound’s private courtyard. Her mother walked over to her, beaming. She pressed her hand gently into her daughter’s shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMayya, my dear! The son of Merchant Sulayman has asked for your hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpasms shot through Mayya’s body. Her mother’s hand suddenly felt unbearably heavy on her shoulder and her throat went dry. She couldn’t stop imagining her sewing thread winding itself around her neck like a hangman’s noose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother smiled. I thought you were too old by now to put on such a girlish show! You needn’t act so bashful, Mayya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that was that. The subject was closed and no one raised it again. Mayya’s mother busied herself assembling the wedding clothes, concocting just the right blends of incense, having all the large seat-cushions reupholstered, and getting word out to the entire family. Mayya’s sisters kept their views to themselves and her father left the matter in her mother’s hands. After all, these were her girls and marriage was women’s business.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\"A richly layered, ambitious work that teems with human struggles and contradictions, providing fascinating insight into Omani history and society.\"","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"\"A book to win over the head and the heart in equal measure, worth lingering over. Interweaving voices and timelines are beautifully served by the pacing of the novel. 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Celestial Bodies
The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.
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Crosbie defiantly acknowledges both the deviant and the sacred, the romantics and rebels that exist in all of us.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Crosbie’s visceral and sharp writing excites and horrifies us as we’re implicated in the depravities of Parnell and Hollywood … Ultimately, good art not only engages us, but challenges us with what it says and what it asks of us — and in doing so, keeps us coming back. Crosbie’s \u003cem\u003eChicken\u003c\/em\u003e certainly does that.” — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eChicken\u003c\/em\u003e, the new novel by Toronto author and poet Lynn Crosbie, is a clamorous, electrifying kaleidoscope of sex and violence that veers toward sensory overload. But just when you think you can’t take any more, there are moments of desperate tenderness and melancholy that almost make you weep. 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You'd have to be half-dead or worse not to weep, rejoice and rage when the speakers of these poems take you to the edge and offer ‘some faint, still powerful memories, of love and mercy’ as salve.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Lynn Crosbie and \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Lynn Crosbie is what a great writer should be: pissed off, bereft, misunderstood, impolite, funny, and in love with the madness of the world.” — Miriam Toews, author of \u003cem\u003eAll My Puny Sorrows\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Complicated Kindness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night\u003c\/em\u003e is terrifying and beautiful. It is a thrift store jam packed with once loved, tattered, and gorgeous images. 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You'd have to be half-dead or worse not to weep, rejoice and rage when the speakers of these poems take you to the edge and offer ‘some faint, still powerful memories, of love and mercy’ as salve.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Lynn Crosbie and \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Lynn Crosbie is what a great writer should be: pissed off, bereft, misunderstood, impolite, funny, and in love with the madness of the world.” — Miriam Toews, author of \u003cem\u003eAll My Puny Sorrows\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Complicated Kindness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night\u003c\/em\u003e is terrifying and beautiful. It is a thrift store jam packed with once loved, tattered, and gorgeous images. 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Chicken
An acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.
