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Now her crystalline French has been deftly and beautifully rendered into English by Wayne Grady: ‘I’m a grain of salt on the tongue of the earth. I dissolve in the mouths of the mountains of Sinai.’ This is a richly imagined, vitally important book.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Steven Heighton, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author of The Waking Comes Late","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eYara El-Ghadban is an emerging writer in North America and is now being published in English for the first time.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe novel was acclaimed when it was originally published in French.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eFor fiction and nonfiction audiences alike.\u003cstrong \u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\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":"By remaining in the liminal space of coma, I Am Ariel Sharon avoids partisan and political blind spots and addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a perspective that history and analysis all-too-often tend to exclude: the humanity of a man, with all the horror and the light it encompasses. 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I Am Ariel Sharon
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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In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark
In his wildly ambitious and darkly funny debut novel, Jonathan Garfinkel probes the fractured nature of identity, the necessity of lies, and the bloody legacy of the Soviet Empire.
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Kamouraska
A classic of Canadian literature by the great Québécoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec.
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.
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Kukum
A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.
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Life Is About Losing Everything
Lynn Crosbie gives us a fiery, honest, and heartbreaking blend of personal memoir and fiction that sketches seven tumultuous years in her life.
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As his eyes adjust to the half-light, he finds her lying in bed, eyes closed and mouth agape. In that instant he cannot tell whether she is asleep or dead. The sight of his mother's body, caught between these two possibilities, causes Jordan to plunge headlong into the uncertain depths of consciousness itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom androids to cannibals to sex clubs, an unforgettable personal odyssey emerges, populated by a cast of sublime outsiders in search for the ever-elusive nature of self. Part ontological thriller, part millennial saga, \u003ci\u003eLiminal\u003c\/i\u003e is a riotous and moving portrait of a young man in volatile times, a generation caught in suspended animation, and a son’s enduring love for his mother.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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He is the youngest-ever winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. He’s been called a “zeitgeist savant” by the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, “the future of Canadian theatre” by \u003cem\u003eNow Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and “the hottest name in Canadian theatre” by the \u003cem\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHis virtual reality performance \u003cem\u003eDraw Me Close\u003c\/em\u003e, a co-production between the National Theatre (U.K.) and the National Film Board of Canada, was a collaboration with acclaimed author Teva Harrison and premiered in May 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tannahill’s production of Sheila Heti's \u003cem\u003eAll Our Happy Days Are Stupid\u003c\/em\u003e, directed with collaborator Erin Brubacher, premiered at Videofag in 2013 and went on to sold-out productions at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre and New York City’s The Kitchen in 2015. Liminal is being made into a feature length art film by the NFB and the National Theatre in the UK.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGROUNDBREAKING LGBTQ ARTIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFrom 2012-2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Tannahill ran the alternative art space Videofag out of their home in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood. Over the four years of its operation, Videofag became an influential hub for queer and avant-garde work in Canada.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePUBLICATION TIE-IN WITH HIS NEW PLAY, \u003cem\u003eDECLARATIONS\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLiminal, which is an expansion of his play Declarations, published to coincide with the play’s premiere at CanStage in January 2018. Tannahill published two other works in Fall 2017: \u003cem\u003eThe Videofag Book\u003c\/em\u003e (BookThug), an anthology of essays, photographs, play-texts, and ruminations about the space; and his latest play, \u003cem\u003eDeclarations\u003c\/em\u003e (Coach House Books).\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am wary of revelations. I find anyone claiming to have them dubious. They’re usually charlatans, the ultra-religious, or insane (not that these three types are mutually exclusive; in fact they rarely are). And I find any description of these revelations some combination of sinister and comical, like John Smith receiving golden plates from the angel Moroni in a secret language only he can translate. Even the words “revelation” and “epiphany” are mired in Christian connotations. The first conjures images of John on the island of Patmos having visions of the Whore of Babylon and the Beast, while the second is the realization by the wise men that Christ is the Son of God, rendered throughout art history as the Adoration of the Magi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI suppose the synonym that feels the least corrupted by spiritual chicanery is “eureka,” and yet this word feels burdened by the mythos of masculine scientific discovery, from Archimedes fateful bath to Newton’s gravity-weighted apple (why do I always imagine it hitting his head?) Darwin said he could remember the exact moment during a carriage ride in which he was struck by his “hunch” about natural selection. Nikola Tesla, while recuperating from a recent breakdown brought on by his obsession to solve the mystery of alternating current, was on a walk with a friend in Budapest’s Varosliget Park when he was pierced by his moment of insight. Tesla was looking into the setting sun whilst reciting a passage from Goethe’s Faust (naturally) when a vision of a functioning alternating current electric induction motor appeared to him with such clarity that he grabbed a stick and drew a diagram of it then and there in the dirt. One can almost hear the angelic choral accompaniment. Perhaps because of these bearded white men and their long lineage of eurekas the word has acquired a certain sense of finitude: they each had a question and in an instant it was answered. As if, through years of research and inquiry, their minds were already filled with the necessary information and all that was required was that final synaptic connection to illuminate the network of association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA word that seems part of this revelatory cohort is “vision,” which again has religious undertones, but also the unfortunate limitations of its sensory association. A vision suggests something that is seen, either literally with one’s eyes in a new way, or seen within the mind’s eye. As the ever-favoured child of the senses, we seem inclined to give seeing undo credit as the conduit of discovery. Though as Proust might agree, throughout my life I’ve probably had more ‘visions’ induced by smell than any other sense. For me, a new awareness is rarely an apparition to be seen or viewed; it does not appear to me like Tesla’s motor. It is something that is felt. An awareness that dawns and slowly spreads its light through my body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I seek is a word that does not suggest a long-sought for answer but rather a deluge of questions. A word for kind of illumination that recalls a caver holding a torch up in an underground chamber and apprehending a few dashes of rock wall at a time, uncertain of how far the cavern extends into darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounter-intuitively, I found something approaching this word in the Bible. The first word in the Book of Revelations — and from which it derives its name — is apokalypsis, which in its original Korine Greek means \"unveiling\" or “revelation.” I find the notion of ‘unveiling’ — of an encounter, smell, sight, sensation that unveils an infinite system of questions and discoveries (which in turn spur more questions) — to be the most vivid evocation of this I can find. I might be even inclined to use the original Greek apokalypsis, as it seems to contain the possibility of discovery in the moment of destruction. Much like the theatre; an art revealed in the moment of its disappearance. And like life itself, theatre can not be rewound or reread; it exists in the temporal present between being and un-being, in what Plato calls the “something inserted between motion and rest (. . .) in no time at all.” An art conjured in the instant of its erasure. And I like the almost preposterous gravity of the world apokalypsis; how it’s cataclysmic and eschatological associations seem to mimic the way in which one world seems to end and another begins in a moment of newfound awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in this instance, for what I’m about to articulate, “unveiling” is the apt word. It conjures for me the image of a man in white gloves pulling a cloth of a painting; the removal of a covering that concealed that which was there all along — something which has been rendered ever more extraordinary by the very fact of its concealment. Rather than by divine conjuring, “unveiling” suggests a moment of discovery arising from matter-of-fact and mortal circumstances. A new way of experiencing something already in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this way, the world is constantly unveiling itself; a stand of trees seen from a fresh angle, the laugher of a dog, a nameless colour, new patterns of movement, of light, of behaviour, patterns in fabric, in birds, in traffic, in music . . . In this way “revelation” is not something a bearded white man once an epoch apprehends but rather a state of becoming that imbues all things at all times. Of course to be in a state of perpetual unveiling is exhausting and disorienting; it’s essentially the way we moved through the world as babies, when everything was revealed and nothing was legible. Gradually, to make sense of the chaos, we fixed things in place, we fixed meaning, we fixed potential, we fixed objects and people and places as knowable and predictable entities and attempted to reduce the instances of unveiling because those upset the order by introducing new variables into the mix. Unveiling, by nature, un-fixes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what happened at 11:04 a.m. on Saturday, January 21, 2017 when I walked into your bedroom and saw your body in bed. In a moment something — perhaps everything — became unveiled. And I became unfixed. It was a moment that lasted less than a second. The interval between a hand feeling water and the pain of it’s scalding heat; between sense and sensation.\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":"Tannahill is a good writer, a natural storyteller with a strong sense of narrative rhythm as well as the ability to launch into almost mystical flights of poetic vision.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Authors such as Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, among others, are showing their exhaustion with plot, opting to be candid, probing, philosophical, and discursive at a micro-level on the page. Toronto playwright Jordan Tannahill’s lushly intelligent debut novel, Liminal, is an exciting addition to this school . . . Liminal captures something illuminating and undefinable about the present moment . . . A real jaw-dropping intellectual feat . . . A rich and unusual story.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"A 49th Shelf Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-01-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Liminal
From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.
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Mai at the Predators' Ball
The fifth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In this vibrant novel, we enter the lives of unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works and some new.
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Manikanetish
A young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art.
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And what is this unearthly being?’","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Margaret Atwood","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Gwendolyn MacEwen seemed to many an exotic and mesmerizing presence. In less than twenty-six years she published twenty books and became with Margaret Atwood the most celebrated poet of her day.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Rosemary Sullivan, The Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe A List edition will feature an introduction by Rosemary Sullivan, author of \u003cem\u003eStalin’s Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis A List edition coincides with both the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation and the 50th anniversary of House of Anansi Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe windows of the night train revealed a landscape almost lunar in its starkness. The trail hugged a wall of rock made steel blue by midnight; the mountainside had the consistency of quicksilver. When we passed over the bridge at the great canal of Corinth, we seemed to be suspended in a hunk of purple midnight space. Everything dwarfed us. We were on our way to Mycenae.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe next morning, rainwater turned red as blood in the hollows of the stones in Corinth. Nikos and I stood in the ancient agora and gazed up at the mountain where holy whores once had their temple; a Byzantine castle now clings precariously to the summit. Everything’s so big in this country, I thought. What is it? Everything’s stretching and reaching and gasping for more and more space. The infamous light seems to yank things out of their contexts and present them naked and fullblown to the eye. 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Mermaids and Ikons
Beloved poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen’s first work of nonfiction in a handsome A List edition.
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{"id":6582748282939,"title":"Mirror Lake","handle":"mirror-lake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetired fifty-something Robert Moreau flees a society he can no longer bear for Mirror Lake, Maine. Little does he suspect that an intrusive neighbour and a mysterious death will quickly dispel any illusions he may have had about finding sanctuary in isolation. The misanthropic Moreau quickly learns that his Thoreau-like vision is a fiction. 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Her novel \u003cem\u003eBondrée\u003c\/em\u003e was sold in eight territories across Europe and North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE AND LITERARY THRILLERS:\u003c\/strong\u003e Michaud is a major author with eleven novels to her name. She has won two Governor General’s Literary Awards, the Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, the Prix Ringuet, and France’s Prix SNCF du Polar. She has also experienced acclaim in the English-language market with her nomination for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. This will be her third work in English translation, following her genre-bending psychological mystery \u003cem\u003eBack Roads \u003c\/em\u003e(Arachnide, 2020). 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Michaud’s masterful story twists and turns this notion that one can escape society entirely on its head.\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_Quote_from_review_0":"\u003cp\u003e[\u003cem\u003eMirror Lake\u003c\/em\u003e] is enlightening, entertaining and thought-provoking, well presented by a talented writer (and her translator).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e[\u003cem\u003eMirror Lake\u003c\/em\u003e] is enlightening, entertaining and thought-provoking, well presented by a talented writer (and her translator).\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2021-03-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death."}
Mirror Lake
A brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.
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Narinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree)
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes an extraordinary story of one young Omani woman building a life for herself in Britain.
