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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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Her work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGrain\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, and she served as the editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eArc Poetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. Her collection of poems \u003cem\u003eWhat if red ran out \u003c\/em\u003ewon the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry. She has been nominated for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and a Governor General’s Literary Award for \u003cem\u003eBrothers\u003c\/em\u003e, her translation of David Clerson’s \u003cem\u003eFrères\u003c\/em\u003e. This is her first translation for Arachnide.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Blais, Marie-Claire (CA)","Contributor_1":"Grubisic, Katia (CA)","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. Revisiting figures from the previous novels in a swirling fresco of more than a hundred characters, Blais also takes us into the soul of “the Young Man,” a white supremacist preparing to attack a Black church and murder its entire congregation. This is an extraordinary portrait of the times that jostles and discomboluates the reader while inviting us to see the world in all its injustice and distress, but also its promise and beauty. \u003ci\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that Blais is a writer who never ceases to situate us in the world and the roles we play in it, and that reading her is always an unforgettable human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006327","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Arachnide Editions","NumberOfPages":"184","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED LITERARY ICON:\u003c\/strong\u003e Over the course of her sixty-year career, Marie-Claire Blais has established herself as one of the most accomplished writers and a literary icon in multiple languages. 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. We expect that this new voice in the series will be a boon to both her career and Blais’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA NOVEL AT THE HEART OF CONTEMPORARY ISSUES:\u003c\/strong\u003ePrevious novels in the series have dealt with vital topics like HIV\/AIDS, refugees, addiction, and nuclear apocalypse. In \u003cem\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/em\u003e, Blais takes on the incredibly timely topics of racism and terrrorism, told through the lens of a white supremacist planning a massacre based on the Charleston church shooting in 2015. 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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On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past — all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Māori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. \u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-06T09:13:21-05:00","created_at":"2022-12-06T09:09:55-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","By (author) Nuttall Kōtuku Titihuia","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2023-04-11"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":2499,"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":41003629150267,"title":"hardcover jacket","option1":"hardcover jacket","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011697","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Tauhou - hardcover jacket","public_title":"hardcover jacket","options":["hardcover jacket"],"price":2499,"weight":313,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011697","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41003630821435,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011703","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Tauhou - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1999,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011703","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_351a9fb1-ce34-448a-81b7-47450ab5107b.jpg?v=1710575860"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_351a9fb1-ce34-448a-81b7-47450ab5107b.jpg?v=1710575860","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24325001216059,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.645,"height":2325,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_351a9fb1-ce34-448a-81b7-47450ab5107b.jpg?v=1710575860"},"aspect_ratio":0.645,"height":2325,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_351a9fb1-ce34-448a-81b7-47450ab5107b.jpg?v=1710575860","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDear grandmother, I am writing this song, over and over again, for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past — all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Māori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. \u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. 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Tauhou
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.
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{"id":6582717612091,"title":"The Acacia Gardens","handle":"the-acacia-gardens","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat anxiety grips Petites Cendres as he runs towards the sea in the sunshine on a warm tropical morning? Shouldn’t he be reassured by the thought that he now lives at the Acacia Gardens, a comfortable home where all find care, understanding, and healing? How can Fleur, the young musical prodigy, listen to the diabolical confessions of Wrath, the fugitive priest, without shuddering? And, can Daniel the writer finish his novel, the one he has been working on for twenty years, despite his sensitivity and empathy for all creatures, even if they are the most humble, like the lizard he inadvertently crushed under his sandal?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this latest novel, Marie-Claire Blais once again gives us a vibrant portrait that embraces the span of life — from birth to death and beyond. Her characters question their purpose and what will come after, as they are confronted by evil that lives and that has taken root.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:27-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:27-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Arachnide Editions","By (author) Blais Marie-Claire","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2016-06-04","Translated by Spencer Nigel"],"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":39403399675963,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000189","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Acacia Gardens - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000189","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412854063163,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000172","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Acacia Gardens - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000172","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412854194235,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000196","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Acacia Gardens - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000196","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_94319a75-f108-40fd-8231-655adc90bed9.jpg?v=1678605842"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_94319a75-f108-40fd-8231-655adc90bed9.jpg?v=1678605842","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324591063099,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_94319a75-f108-40fd-8231-655adc90bed9.jpg?v=1678605842"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_94319a75-f108-40fd-8231-655adc90bed9.jpg?v=1678605842","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWhat anxiety grips Petites Cendres as he runs towards the sea in the sunshine on a warm tropical morning? Shouldn’t he be reassured by the thought that he now lives at the Acacia Gardens, a comfortable home where all find care, understanding, and healing? How can Fleur, the young musical prodigy, listen to the diabolical confessions of Wrath, the fugitive priest, without shuddering? And, can Daniel the writer finish his novel, the one he has been working on for twenty years, despite his sensitivity and empathy for all creatures, even if they are the most humble, like the lizard he inadvertently crushed under his sandal?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this latest novel, Marie-Claire Blais once again gives us a vibrant portrait that embraces the span of life — from birth to death and beyond. Her characters question their purpose and what will come after, as they are confronted by evil that lives and that has taken root.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Acacia Gardens
The seventh in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In The Acacia Gardens, memorable characters are confronted by an evil that lives among them and that has taken root.
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With a plot that moves from lobbyists to politicians to construction magnates, the novel gives a lively panoramic view of the state of the province today in a universal story of an ambitious young man getting ahead by any means possible.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD-WINNING TRANSLATOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe novel is being translated by Wayne Grady, who has won many awards for his previous French-to-English translations. He also won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and was longlisted for the Giller Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection, for his novel \u003cem\u003eEmancipation Day\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eAfter taking a stab at political science and then psychology, Jerome Lupien finally found his true calling as a man of letters; he enrolled in French Literature at the Université de Montréal, and earned a B.A. that let him imagine a career in teaching, journalism, publishing, or some other related field. Upon graduating, he decided to reward himself for the remarkable feat of his having combined university studies with part-time work as a waiter in an Old Montreal café by taking a year off — the first several weeks of which he spent sleeping, living the good life, and windsurfing. He planned to top off his sabbatical year with a long hitchhiking trip through South America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, towards midsummer, his uncle Raoul, who had become a partial invalid, gave Jerome his hunting equipment. As an adolescent, Jerome had gone on dozens of hunting trips with his uncle, so he was fairly familiar with guns — which, to his father, were an abomination. Jerome’s memories of those trips were filled with marvels that passing time had embellished. So, one afternoon, handling the rifles and carbines his uncle had sent him and seeing how assiduously oiled and polished they were, he was so moved that tears came to his eyes. A hunger for the hunt took hold of him and held on unrelentingly; come the night, he dreamed of going on safaris in shadowy forests in which he came face to face with herds of deer, moose, or caribou, which he would slaughter in a terrifying burst of gunfire, half blinded by the clouds of acrid smoke that made him cough and laugh at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe dedicated a weekend to courses — “Arms Management” and “An Introduction to Hunting” — in order to get his permit, which he received a month later. Yet, even with it, he felt he needed to have someone experienced with him on his first adult foray into the woods. And so, in early October, he’d surfed the Internet to look for a hunting guide, came up with Donat Pimparé, and the business was settled in no time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was Pimparé who suggested they get themselves to Maniwaki.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I know it’s a bit far,” Pimparé had said, “and sure, there’ll be some expenses, but in the past five or six years I’ve found no better place for big game. I’ve never led a hunting party up there that hasn’t come back with an animal. If you don’t wanna come home empty-handed, pal, then Maniwaki’s the place to go.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty-eight-year-old Pimparé lived in Sorel and had accumulated a lot of experience as a guide. And since Jerome, two months earlier, had totalled his beloved Mazda in an accident from which he, fortunately, had escaped unharmed — other than three demerit points off his driver’s licence — Pimparé offered to drive them both up to Maniwaki in his minivan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If we get a moose that’s too big for the van,” he joked, “you can come back by bus.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich was what he would have to do, apparently. But without the moose.\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":"Beauchemin’s considerable skills as a narrator of improbable events deployed along a plot line ingeniously constructed remain on full display here. As does his sharp eye for broad but sharp description of buffoons spouting farrago and bravado, and his ear for telling declamations that immediately undercut their alleged intentions —everything we have learned to expect from the master.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1":"Beauchemin’s prose is amiable and fluid.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"A moral story of initiation, vengeance, and redemption (and just a little bit of love) . . . reminiscent of Balzac’s Lost Illusions, Flaubert’s Sentimental Education, or Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Montreal student Jerome is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in corruption.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2018-09-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Montreal student Jerome is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in corruption.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Accidental Education of Jerome Lupien
Montreal student Jerome is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in corruption.
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Coady's writing is witty and sensitive... this is a fantastic book that shouldn't be missed.","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Nicholas Mancusi","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Daily Beast\/Newsweek","OtherText_Review_19":"...[a] clever and sympathetic exploration of male friendship.","OtherText_Review_19_Auth":"Ron Charles","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Heather Leighton","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Rover Arts","OtherText_Review_2":". . . thoroughly engrossing. . . a breathless and frequently hilarious narrative . . . one of the freshest voices in years.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Zoe Whittall","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"FASHION Magazine","OtherText_Review_3":". . . a richly comic creation . . . a revealing effort in cross-gender empathy.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Joel Yanofsky","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_4":"A deft blend of farce, tragedy and wry social comment, The Antagonist is no mean feat.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Barbara Carey","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_5":". . . far more complex than the hilarious one-liners that make her work so irresistible to read.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Margaret Gunning","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"In this coming-of-age tale, male friendships and relationships are explored in all their goofiness and complexity . . . 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The Antagonist
From bestselling novelist Lynn Coady comes an unforgettable, unflinching story of a life gone wrong.
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The Big Why
A year in the life of famed artist Rockwell Kent, who in 1914 left the bustling streets of New York City for the quaint town of Brigus, Newfoundland.
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For that, \u003cem \u003eCorvus\u003c\/em\u003e is an important intervention into climate-based, futuristic sci-fi.” — \u003cem \u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHarold R. Johnson is the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eFirewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) \u003c\/em\u003eand an important voice in Indigenous literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Björkan Sagas \u003c\/em\u003eis at the forefront of positive, complex, and diverse Indigenous stories that exemplify the diversity of Indigenous cultures.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis book is a combination of Indigenous storytelling traditions and the sci-fi and fantasy genres.\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_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. 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The Björkan Sagas
Drawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. Johnson merges myth, fantasy, and history in this epic saga of exploration and adventure.
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The style is magnificent, the characters unforgettable: Noé, Mie, and Osip are great literary creations. As with all this author’s books, the sensual is omnipresent, and sometimes troubling. 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!","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Michel Tremblay, Winner of the Governor General's Performing Arts Award","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCITING NEW NOVELIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAudrée Wilhelmy’s debut novel was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award - one of the most prestigious Canadian Literary Awards. She has been a finalist for many other major French-Canadian book prizes. 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The author recently completed a three-month, $7,000 residency at the Librairie Monet in Montreal, which garnered strong media coverage.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST TIME APPEARING IN ENGLISH:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Body of Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e is the author’s first work to appear in English, and it is being translated by Susan Ouriou. Her recent translation, with Christelle Morelli, of Fanny Britt’s \u003cem\u003eHunting Houses\u003c\/em\u003e was a huge hit in the US and received strong reviews and high praise.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDARK MAGIC REALIST TALE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn its dark rural setting, mysterious young female main character, and enquiry into the effects of isolation, \u003cem\u003eThe Body of Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e emerges from the tradition of Gaétan Soucy’s \u003cem\u003eThe Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Perched on the guardrails or on the backs of benches, children eat ice cream that trickles between their fingers and onto their bare bellies. The heat of the beach is like no other, worn like a piece of clothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo different from the others in their long shirts, the Borya brothers serve as their mother’s bodyguards. She holds the youngest on her hip and strides toward the fishermen, her skirts billowing around her legs. Three coins jangle in her pocket and their clinking combines with the clacking of her heels against the wharf. The biggest fish require tough bargaining, so the boys’ father sent his wife. He told her to wear her grey dress, the one with the low-cut square neck that shows off her breasts, plump with milk. She makes her way toward the men, her attempt at sensuality somewhat hindered by the presence of her sons. The eldest walks in front of her, pushing a wheelbarrow three times his weight to transport the animal once the deal has been made. The younger two run to keep up with their mother’s swaying gait. As for her, she sees only the huge fish hanging mid-wharf, the fishermen’s sturdy bodies, the blue water and the light sparkling on its surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOsip Borya, chasing a salamander, has stayed behind. By the time he loses the tiny creature in the tall grasses, his mother and brothers have left. He can’t see them anywhere. Immediately overhead, seagulls wheel like sparrow hawks. A pelican swoops toward the beach, throat stretched taut with its catch, and lands on a post right next to the boy. The bird is still dripping from its plunge into the water. It looks at the child, throws its skull back and, swallowing its prey in one majestic gulp, unfurls its wings. At that exact moment, several things occur. First, the pelican lifts off and returns to its position on the waves. Then, watching the seabird, Osip spies his mother at the end of the wharf and notices a tiny movement she makes: as her right foot lifts out of its shoe, she reaches down to brush sand off the sole of her foot. Just behind her, a fisherman lets out a shout and hauls from the water a five-foot-long swordfish thrashing around like a demon. Three men harpoon it to sap the creature’s strength.\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\u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e is a visceral story with wings: rhythmically beating, it both suffocates readers and prepares us to soar.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"World Literature Today","OtherText_Review_1":"The Body of the Beasts 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.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_2":"Sensual and strange.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_3":"[Wilhelmy] is a meticulous recorder of the dramatic wilderness … Lovely writing.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_4":"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.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_5":"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 tour de force 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.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Audrée Wilhelmy’s extraordinary tale of a hermetic family minding a lighthouse in willed isolation is a luscious, disturbing, and sensuous.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2019-07-30","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Audrée Wilhelmy’s extraordinary tale of a hermetic family minding a lighthouse in willed isolation is a luscious, disturbing, and sensuous.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Body of the Beasts
Audrée Wilhelmy’s extraordinary tale of a hermetic family minding a lighthouse in willed isolation is a luscious, disturbing, and sensuous.
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Reading The Break is like a revelation; stunning, heartbreaking and glorious. From her exquisitely rendered characters to her fully realized world and the ratcheting tension, I couldn’t put it down. Absolutely riveting.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach","OtherText_Review_1":"The narrator of this story is dead. He misses feeling the skin of others, but he likes being about memory. It’s who we are siem. Katherena Vermette rendered the women of the North End gorgeous in her poetry: North End Love Songs. In The Break, she renders them sweet, beautiful battlers who love under the most horrific of circumstances. She points no fingers, just plots the story, person by person, memory by memory, until it is clear that we must give up the feeling of hopelessness that haunts the lives of these women. The Break is itself a beautiful love song of desire to live a full and rich life as cherished women — even when we cannot have that. We can hope. Resilient as the star world from which they arise these women reconcile with their lives without giving in to the horrors they have faced. Vermette captures the reader from beginning to end. She creates unforgettable characters with honor, respect and a deft hand. In so doing she holds the reader’s tender love in her capable hands and weaves us right into the story. The Break is unforgettable.","OtherText_Review_10":"A visionary debut novel.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"CBC Books","OtherText_Review_11":"Stunning . . . [Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_12":"One of the great Indigenous novels.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"First Nations Voice","OtherText_Review_13":"Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, The Break, takes a tough, close-up look at an extended family in Winnipeg, tackling along the way a side of female life that’s often hard to acknowledge: the violence of girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women, and the power struggles among them. In The Break, the characters may be Métis, but the motivations and emotions are surely universal. This is an accomplished writer who will go far.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Margaret Atwood","OtherText_Review_14":"A debut novel brimming with grace and wisdom, that puts the spotlight on the systemic violence being committed in our country, [The Break] is both a wake-up call and a call-to-arms. Vital.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_15":"It’s a timely novel that will keep you turning the pages and make you think well after you’ve turned the final one.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Niagara This Week","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lee Maracle, author of Celia’s Song","OtherText_Review_2":"The lives of the girls and women in The Break are not easy, but their voices — complex, urgent, and unsparing — lay bare what it means to survive, not only once, but multiple times, against the forces of private and national histories. Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing","OtherText_Review_3":"Fiction is capable of helping us to comprehend difference and otherness, and The Break offers clear insight ino people struggling to secure a place in the world.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_4":"Katherena Vermette’s poignant novel, set in Winnipeg’s North End, opens with a violent crime that becomes the backdrop for a story of great depth and compassion. This masterfully written narrative shifts among the intergenerational voices of the women of one extended Indigenous family. The Break is a powerful, persuasive novel about the strength and love that bind these women to each other and to the men in their lives. The traditions and wisdom of a community are honoured, as is the exquisite individual humanity of each character. Although this is a novel of social importance, it transcends politics, taking the reader on a journey to the heart of what it means for one person to care about another, survive trauma, and endure.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury Lauren B. Davis, Trevor Ferguson, and Pasha Malla","OtherText_Review_5":"The Break manages to be political even when it isn’t. It’s a book that explores social issues without ever preaching, or even seeming to be about them at all. It examines the only element of those issues that matter: their human impact. It’s astonishing in its empathy... She doesn’t pull her punches or dress up her truths. The Break leaves it all bare, and it demands to be read.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Uniter","OtherText_Review_6":"Vermette is skilled at writing with a language that is conversational and comfortable and with a poetic ease that makes the hard things easier to swallow. The result is a book that is at times emotionally demanding, funny, suspenseful, and always engaging.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_7":"Vermette offers us a dazzling portrayal of the patchwork quilt of\r\npain and trauma that women inherit, of the \"big and small half-stories\r\nthat make up a life.\" These are the stories our mothers, sisters and\r\nfriends have told us - the stories we absorb into our bloodstream\r\nuntil they might as well be our own.\r\n\r\n..a stunning debut - a novel whose 10 voices, Greek chorus-like, span\r\nthe full range of human possibility, from its lowest depths to its\r\nmost brilliant triumphs, as they attempt to make sense of this tragic\r\ncrime and of their own lives. \"The Break\" is an astonishing act of\r\nempathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking. A thriller gives us easy\r\nanswers - a victim and a perpetrator, good guys and bad guys. \"The\r\nBreak\" gives us the actual mess of life.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"With adeptness and sensitivity, Vermette puts a human face to issues that are too-often misunderstood, and in so doing, she has written a book that is both one of the most important of the year and one of the best.\r\n \r\nThough Katherena Vermette is not an emerging writer – she has written seven children’s books and won a Governor General’s award for her poetry collection North End Love Songs – for many, this novel will be their first encounter. And it will be a revelation. Vermette is a fully matured literary talent confronting some of our society’s fundamental problems through understated prose that exudes wisdom and emotion. Every page hides beauty amid suffering; love winning out over violence and hate. Stella, at one point in the novel, thinks about “[a] story that didn’t happen to her but that she keeps and remembers.” The Break is like that; it is a story that will stick with you a long time.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_Review_9":"In Vermette’s poetic prose, The Break offers a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country — and the strength that helps them survive.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"The Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_5":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_6":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeCode_5":"01","PrizeCode_6":"04","PrizeName_0":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_1":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction","PrizeName_3":"Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award","PrizeName_4":"McNally Robinson Book of the Year","PrizeName_5":"Amazon.ca First Novel Award","PrizeName_6":"Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Literature","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2016","PrizeYear_2":"2017","PrizeYear_3":"2017","PrizeYear_4":"2017","PrizeYear_5":"2017","PrizeYear_6":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001117\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Break
A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.
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The Butcher's Hook
Anne Jaccob, a nineteen-year old daughter of a wealthy merchant falls in love with Fub, the butcher’s son — an imperfect match.
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The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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This is a quietly profound novel made all the more beautiful by its brevity.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_1":"Seethaler paints a multi-faceted picture of a small town through the stories of the troubled souls lying in its cemetery ... Carefully crafted moments of catharsis ... hit you with all the force of a freight train.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Scotsman","OtherText_Review_2":"If the dead were to talk among themselves, what would they discuss? Life, of course ... In twenty-nine chapters of unequal length — from two words (but what words!) to twenty pages — each devoted to a person who has lived in the small town of Paulstadt since the end of the Second World War, Seethaler brings lives to life, revealing their secrets, hopes, regrets, and joys ... There are premonitions. There are memories. Both can deceive. What is not deceptive, however, is the talent of Robert Seethaler.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Monde","OtherText_Review_3":"One of those rare novels that can move you existentially, and change you.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"SWR","OtherText_Review_4":"This book about a village’s dead proves that subtle literary quality and bestseller success do not have to be mutually exclusive.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Die Zeit","OtherText_Review_5":"The whole thing is so wonderfully crafted … that you literally don’t want to stop reading, that you’re sad to come to the end … What he has mastered like few other authors in German literary history is to give all his characters a profound dignity.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Robert Seethaler comes a tale of life and death and human connection, told through the voices of those who have passed on.\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2021-10-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Robert Seethaler comes a tale of life and death and human connection, told through the voices of those who have passed on.\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Field
From Robert Seethaler comes a tale of life and death and human connection, told through the voices of those who have passed on.