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Innie Shadows
A taut and unsparing novel about a community plagued by violence, drugs, corruption, and prejudice—but where love and justice prevail.
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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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{"id":7349204123707,"title":"Keep","handle":"keep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA timely tale of ownership and loss, loneliness and connection, and a meditation on all the stuff in our lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHome staging is an art of erasure. But in some cases—no matter how much clutter you remove, or how many coats of white paint you apply—stains bleed through, and memories rise from the walls like ghosts. Harriet, an elderly poet whose eccentricities have been compounded by years of living alone, must sell her beloved house. Having been recently diagnosed with dementia, she is being moved into a care facility against her wishes. When stagers Eleanor and Jacob are hired for the job, they quickly find themselves immersed in Harriet’s brimming and mysterious world, but as they struggle to help her, their own lives are unravelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeep\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on all the stuff in our lives—from the singular, handcrafted artifact to indelible, mass-produced plastics. As Jenny Haysom excavates the material of our domestic spaces, she centres the people within them and celebrates the power of memory, even when it falters.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-21T10:44:52-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-21T10:41:58-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult New Releases","By (author) Haysom Jenny","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2024-10-01"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2399,"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":42025527050299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012427","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Keep - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2399,"weight":306,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012427","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":42025527181371,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012434","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Keep - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012434","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c2b159cc-2907-413d-aa02-8e3636cc0c26.jpg?v=1740152535"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c2b159cc-2907-413d-aa02-8e3636cc0c26.jpg?v=1740152535","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25137256136763,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c2b159cc-2907-413d-aa02-8e3636cc0c26.jpg?v=1740152535"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c2b159cc-2907-413d-aa02-8e3636cc0c26.jpg?v=1740152535","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA timely tale of ownership and loss, loneliness and connection, and a meditation on all the stuff in our lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHome staging is an art of erasure. But in some cases—no matter how much clutter you remove, or how many coats of white paint you apply—stains bleed through, and memories rise from the walls like ghosts. Harriet, an elderly poet whose eccentricities have been compounded by years of living alone, must sell her beloved house. Having been recently diagnosed with dementia, she is being moved into a care facility against her wishes. When stagers Eleanor and Jacob are hired for the job, they quickly find themselves immersed in Harriet’s brimming and mysterious world, but as they struggle to help her, their own lives are unravelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeep\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on all the stuff in our lives—from the singular, handcrafted artifact to indelible, mass-produced plastics. As Jenny Haysom excavates the material of our domestic spaces, she centres the people within them and celebrates the power of memory, even when it falters.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A timely tale of ownership and loss, loneliness and connection, and a meditation on all the stuff in our lives.
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Cho’s matter-of-fact delivery underscores the pervasive gender imbalance, while just containing the empathic rage.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_6":"Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 has much in common with Han Kang’sThe Vegetarian.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Los Angeles Review of Books","OtherText_Review_7":"[Cho Nam-joo] pulls no punches in her delineation of cultural misogyny … The author’s particular achievement is in blending political and stylistic concerns in a cool tone carefully captured in Jamie Chang’s translation … Cho’s moving, witty, and powerful novel forces us to face our reality, in which one woman is seen, pretty much, as interchangeable with any other.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Telegraph (U.K.)","OtherText_Review_8":"A clear-eyed look at damage done.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Straits Times","OtherText_Review_9":"In this fine — and beautifully translated — biography of a fictional Korean woman, we encounter the real experiences of many women around the world.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Spectator (U.K.)","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"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.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"National Book Award for Translated Literature","PrizeName_1":"A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020","PrizeYear_0":"2020","PrizeYear_1":"2020","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-14","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"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.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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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Kiss the Undertow
The disturbing story of a swimmer navigating the abuse of her body and mind as she trains for competition, exploring the nature of power and will.
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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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Letters to Kafka
A sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská’s torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.
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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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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\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\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\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGROUNDBREAKING LGBTQ ARTIST:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\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. 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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. 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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":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","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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Little Crosses
A daughter examines her complicated relationship with a charismatic, narcissistic mother who now lives with alcohol-related dementia.
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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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Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eKuessipan\u003c\/em\u003e, was made into a feature film that debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019. \u003cem\u003eManikanetish \u003c\/em\u003ewas a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and ICI-Radio Canada’s “Combat des livres.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLUISE VON FLOTOW\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator of French and German literature. Her novel translations include \u003cem\u003eLa femme du stalinien, Une belle éducation\u003c\/em\u003e,and\u003cem\u003e L’hôtel aux quatre chemins \u003c\/em\u003eby France Théoret, and she also edited the essay collection \u003cem\u003eTranslating Women: Different Voices and New Horizons\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a professor at the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Fontaine, Naomi (CA)","Contributor_1":"von Flotow, Luise","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn Naomi Fontaine’s Governor General’s Literary Award finalist, a young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students, reminding us of the importance of hope in the face of despair.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter fifteen years of exile, Yammie, a young Innu woman, has come back to her home in Uashat, on Quebec’s North Shore. She has returned to teach at the local school but finds a community stalked by despair. Yammie will do anything to help her students. 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This is a profoundly moving, human, beautiful book.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"ICI-Radio Canada","OtherText_Review_2":"Naomi Fontaine leads us to discover students who are sometimes endearing and sometimes disturbing, but always does so with poetry.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eA young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeName_0":"Governor General’s Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"ICI-Radio Canada Combat des livres","PrizeName_2":"Geneva Book Fair Audience Award","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2021-09-28","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eA young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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A young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art.
