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{"id":6818796503099,"title":"19 Knives","handle":"19-knives","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize and several others having won prizes or been published in magazines and journals across North America, this collection brings a major fiction writer to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T10:30:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T09:11:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Adult Starred Reviews","Astoria","By (author) Jarman Mark","pub date: 2000-03-01"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"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":40247947362363,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848025","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"19 Knives - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":209,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848025","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40247951949883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890862","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"19 Knives - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890862","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40247954210875,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895492","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"19 Knives - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895492","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324591095867,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2514,"width":1627,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2514,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857","width":1627}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWith characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize and several others having won prizes or been published in magazines and journals across North America, this collection brings a major fiction writer to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The verisimilitude of his writing would be unbelievable were it not here on the page waiting to be read - and read it you should, for 19 Knives is short fiction at its finest.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_1":"Each of 19 Knives' 14 stories (all first-person narratives) integrates sparkling linguistic kinetics and honey-like narrative stickiness. Rejecting postmodern cynicism, Jarman celebrates life's ecstatic mysteries. Religious in their own way - finding meaning in music and everyday life, not empty theology - these stories shake like Muddy Waters riding a riff into the dark recesses of the night...Jarman gives us the best stuff. Solid gold.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"It is very irritating to discover a wonderful book published too long ago to be an official 'book of the year.'...Jarman's collection is...brilliant. The writing is extraordinary, the stories are gripping, it is something new.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"A.S. Byatt","OtherText_Review_3":"Jarman's ingenuity is undeniable; his lingual dexterity is prodigious, at times downright acrobatic...The stories are engaging and some are indeed enchanting, pulling the reader into the commonplace and hypnotic.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_4":"The best of many highlights in Jarman's new collection, 19 Knives, ['Burn Man on a Texas Porch'] is not only the best I've story I've read in a year, it's probably one of the best ever written by a Canadian. It's focused, intense, colloquial and darkly funny - carefully crafted while remaining bracingly idiosyncratic...Jarman can do things with a narrative hook and a single strong character that make perennial prize-winners like Bonnie Burnard and Alistair MacLeod seem like candle-dipping dowdies.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Eye Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"The frenzied pace of Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives betrays the influence of the beat writers. But the dark figures who populate his devastating stories are more suggestive of David Foster Wallace...Like a quart of hand-picked berries, the stories offer sweet stabs of delight with enough grit and pesticide to set your teeth on edge.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Elm Street","OtherText_Review_6":"The stories grab on and then pedal on imbalance; they tilt and stay dizzyingly tilted, careering, not necessarily toward any kind of resolution, but toward the marrow of a character's psyche...Voice is the foundation and strength of 19 Knives, and provides the primal energy of the stories...19 Knives is a sinuous, heartbreaking book that probes the fragility of human identity in a fresh, elemental way.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeName_0":"ReLit Awards - Fiction","PrizeYear_0":"2001","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2000-03-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
19 Knives
Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.
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{"id":6812109635643,"title":"A Short History of Progress","handle":"a-short-history-of-progress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow more relevant than ever, Ronald Wright’s #1 national bestseller, \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Progress\u003c\/i\u003e. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach time history repeats itself, so it’s said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: Where will this growth lead? Can it be consolidated or sustained? 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The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: Where will this growth lead? Can it be consolidated or sustained? And what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his #1 national bestseller \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Progress\u003c\/i\u003e Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment’s inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome. In his new introduction to the fifteenth anniversary edition, Wright looks at the past fifteen years of human innovation — and asks whether we can still get the future right.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487002428","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487003661","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781487008512","BASICMainSubject":"POL010000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POLITICAL SCIENCE \/ History \u0026 Theory","BiographicalNote":"Ronald Wright is an award-winning novelist, historian, and essayist. He lives in British Columbia. \r\n\r\nVisit Ronald Wright's website:\r\nhttp:\/\/ronaldwright.com\/","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POLITICAL SCIENCE \/ History \u0026 Theory","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POLITICAL SCIENCE \/ Globalization","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"POLITICAL SCIENCE \/ Commentary \u0026 Opinion","BISACSubject_0":"POL010000","BISACSubject_1":"POL033000","BISACSubject_2":"POL046000","ContributorBio_0":"Ronald Wright is an award-winning novelist, historian, and essayist. 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Fans of the Massey Lectures series will be eager to read this new introduction and own an anniversary edition.\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":"Wright sifts the findings of archaeology and anthropology with thoughtful grace to build a potent argument.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_1":"Impressive . . . for the evidence Wright assembles from his authoritative grasp of history, and for the skill and clarity with which he imparts information. He makes history, ecology, anthropology, and political science easy to read.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Associated Press","OtherText_Review_2":"Provocative . . . Already a bestseller in Canada, Wright is now making his biggest mark since his debut novel (A Scientific Romance, 1997) attracted wide attention… illuminating and disturbing, and expansively documented.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_3":"I don’t care if you have never read and will never read any kind of book at all, but you must read this one.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"An elegant and learned discussion of what the rise and fall of past civilizations predict about our own: nothing good.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"15th Anniversary edition of the #1 national bestseller featuring a new introduction from the author warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback 2nd edition","PublicationDate":"2004-10-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"15th Anniversary edition of the #1 national bestseller featuring a new introduction from the author warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.","Subtitle":"Fifteenth Anniversary Edition","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
A Short History of Progress
15th Anniversary edition of the #1 national bestseller featuring a new introduction from the author warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.
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Below the attic windows, a lead-lined gutter edged by a stone parapet was packed with decaying leaves, and the sticks and feathers of ancient pigeon nests. Far below, Cara was standing on the fountain in front of the house. The mass of her hair was the first thing I noticed — almost solid with its dark, tight curls and centre parting, hiding all but a strip of her milk-white face. She was shouting in Italian. I didn’t know the words; the closest I have come to understanding Italian is the Latin names of plants, and even these have faded now. A test: Cedrus … Cedrus … Cedrus Libani, Cedar of Lebanon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree storeys below, Cara stood on the fountain, her bare feet balancing on the plump thighs of a putto. One hand gripped the robes of a stone woman as though she were trying to wrest them from her and the other held a pair of flat ballet pumps. I winced at the damage she might be doing to the already chipped and broken marble. I half-hoped that the fountain might be a Canova or one of his pupils. Cara was wearing a long crocheted dress, and I was certain even from my distance, no brassiere. The sun had nearly set on the other side of the house and her body was in shadow, but her head, where she tilted it back to look up, was vivid. I knew her already: hot-blooded and prickly, bewitching; a flowering cactus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI thought she was shouting at me, up in my attic. I have never liked loud sounds, harsh words; I’ve always preferred the quiet of a library, and back then I couldn’t remember anyone raising their voice to me, not even my mother, although of course, things are different now. 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From my window I saw him burst out of the front door onto the carriage turn just as Cara was pushing a bicycle at a trot through what was left of the gravel and simultaneously putting on her shoes. When she reached the avenue, she pulled up her and jumped on the bicycle like a circus acrobat jumping onto a moving horse, something I could never have managed then and certainly not now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Cara!” Peter called. “Please don’t go.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe watched her, Peter and I, swerve around the potholes along the avenue of limes. Peddling away from us, she let go of the bicycle with one hand and stuck up two fingers in reply. 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Bitter Orange
A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.
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{"id":6816227852347,"title":"Blood","handle":"blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBlood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religion, literature, and the visual arts. Every time it pools or spills, we learn a little more about what brings human beings together and what pulls us apart. 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Blood
Bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers an examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and the way that it unites and divides us today.
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{"id":6816230080571,"title":"Bone and Bread","handle":"bone-and-bread","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for 2016 CBC Canada Reads\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods -- and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal's Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood, their paths begin to diverge. 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Nawaz successfully portrays a strong yet tumultuous bond between the two sisters.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Heather Leighton","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Nawaz invites her reader into an intimate and devastating history, and holds you right until the end.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Emily M. Keeler","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"... absorbing...","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Athena McKenzie","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Zoomer","OtherText_Review_6":"Saleema Nawaz’s debut novel Bone and Bread sets poetic prose against the complex mythology of a small family... 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Bone and Bread
A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.
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Boundless
The long-awaited follow up to Annabel and Kathleen Winter's first work of narrative nonfiction.
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As a mixed-race person, I found her story deeply resonant, and felt an immediate kinship with her and her loved ones.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Waubgeshig Rice","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBreaking the Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply intimate and provocative memoir about the explorations of a young immigrant mixed-race woman trying to find her way to belonging through social change. A profound and important read at this time of the intersections of our struggles. We need more voices like hers.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Judy Rebick","OtherText_Accolades_2":"A bold and intimate memoir about growing up mixed-race, overcoming adversities, and fighting for social change, Breaking the Ocean deftly illuminates the pain and loss of immigration and what it means to feel like you don’t belong. At its core, this is a book about trauma and resilience and the power of storytelling to heal and connect us all.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Ayelet Tsabari","OtherText_Accolades_3":"A powerful memoir about the making of a leader and the rise of her passion for justice and equity. This is a stunning personal reflection on one woman’s growth to claim her own power and the dedication she makes to social change.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Carrianne Leung","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEMAND FOR IMMIGRANT STORIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNever before has there been such interest in immigrant and refugee stories, as demonstrated by the success of novels and story collections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Djamila Ibrahim, Irina Kovalyova, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ayelet Tsabari.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEBUT FROM CO-FOUNDER OF ANIMA LEADERSHIP:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eDashtgard is the co-founder of Amima Leadership, an award-winning organization devoted to diversity and inclusion in the workforce. 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The paralyzing isolation I felt during the early years of motherhood has given way to tenuous new connections with many other parents — through daycare, local Facebook groups, and community gatherings — but I’m still off balance. Despite reaching middle age, despite having achieved professional success, despite all the wonderful things and people in my life, this moment undoes me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sight of monkey bars and green playing field makes me feel tight and floaty at the same time. I know it’s because a part of me was left behind in a place just like this, where I learned that in order to survive I had to make myself disappear. I can’t catch my breath. I feel dislocated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy daughter runs into the play area without a backward glance, and I call her back to give her one last hug. “Enjoy your first day at your new school, Baba. I love you so much,” I whisper. 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Breaking the Ocean
Diversity and inclusion specialist Dashtgard addresses the impacts of exile, immigration, and racism through an account of her life and work.
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Caught
A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.
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Caught (TV tie-in edition)
A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.
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Yet he cannot contend solely with the cares and concerns of a husband and father, haunted as he is by the mysterious death of his mother and vivid recollections of his megalomaniacal father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe couple is orbited by an intricate constellation of individuals, connected by blood, by proximity, by deeply rooted social edifices. Those in their immediate families include Mayya’s sisters — Asma, who aspires to a different kind of life and marriage, and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. 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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_Review_0":"An innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Booth’s translation honours the elliptical rhythms of Arabic and the language’s rich literary heritage . . . Yet there is no doubt that this is a contemporary novel, insistent and alive . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"The great pleasure of reading Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct. The ability to move freely through time, the privileged access to the wounded privacies of many characters, the striking diversity of human beings across a relatively narrow canvas, the shock waves as one generation heaves, like tectonic plates, against another, the secrets and lapses and repressions, at once intimate and historical, the power, indeed, of an investigation that is always political and always intimate — here is the novel being supremely itself, proving itself up to the job by changing not its terms of employment but the shape of the task.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"A rich, dense web of a novel . . . The chorus of voices that arises from these pages, at once harmonious and dissonant, constitutes nothing less than the assertion of the right to exist and to be recognized.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"The glimpses into a culture relatively little known in the West are fascinating.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"Ambitious, intense . . . With exhilarating results, Alharthi throws the reader into the midst of a tangled family drama in which unrequited love, murder, suicide, and adultery seem the rule rather than the exception . . . [Celestial Bodies] is all the more satisfying for the complexity of its tale.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"A richly layered, ambitious work that teems with human struggles and contradictions, providing fascinating insight into Omani history and society.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_6":"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. 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. Celestial Bodies evokes the forces that constrain us and those that set us free.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Bettany Hughes","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Man Booker International Prize","OtherText_Review_7":"The novel is a beautifully achieved account of lives pulling at the edges of change. The writing is teasingly elliptical throughout and there is a kind of poetic understatement that draws the reader into the domestic settings and public tribulations of the three sisters . . . Celestial Bodies deftly undermines recurrent stereotypes about Arab language and cultures, but most importantly brings a distinctive and important new voice to world literature.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"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.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Man Booker International Prize","PrizeName_1":"A Kirkus Reviews Best Book","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-10-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"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.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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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Its eight stories display a remarkable range of tone and voice while hanging together as a coherent reading experience, linked by themes of recovery, separation and confinement — both literal and psychological.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Ian McGillis","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_1":"…a consistently pleasurable read…Silcoff’s keen observations…are laid down on the page like little gems of uncommon brilliance and depth.","OtherText_Review_10":". . . [a] dazzling debut story collection . . .","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Adrian Lee","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Macleans","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Patricia Maunder","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"These are beautiful stories very much about beauty itself and about the meticulous care Mireille Silcoff's characters take in making their world as beautiful as they can, even as time and fate frustrate their efforts. These stories of Montreal are imbued with wisdom, grace and, often, a great deal of humour and one hears in them the echo of Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, and even Mordecai Richler.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World","OtherText_Review_3":"Chez L'arabe is a deliciously unwholesome mixture of physical disorder and family secrets and sexual obsession and Montreal. Toxically intoxicating.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Stephen Marche, Esquire columnist and author of How Shakespeare Changed Everything and Love and the Mess We're In","OtherText_Review_4":"Silcoff’s wonderful descriptive observations have, unsurprisingly perhaps, a pensive, unrushed quality…these stories feel generous, expansive.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Emily Donaldson","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"Mireille Silcoff’s “Chez L’Arabe” is an impressive debut short story collection by any measure.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Renee Ghert-Zand","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Times of Israel","OtherText_Review_6":"…Silcoff’s stories remain unruffled, polished and mature, as smart and elegant as the characters they depict.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Ayelet Tsabari","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Shtetl","OtherText_Review_7":"Silcoff’s languid and satirical authorial voice evokes another big Montreal talent, Mordecai Richler. Like Richler's work, her fiction is poignant, hilarious and trenchantly observant about contemporary urban life, both in the detailed depictions of its inanities and its splendours. The linked-stories are told from the point of view of a woman in her mid-thirties, a secular Jew recovering from a spinal cord malfunction, who recounts her interactions with the people in her life with a mixture of sympathy and savvy wit. Silcoff holds a mirror up, letting the reader see how ridiculously human are the lives of the characters in her stories.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jury","OtherText_Review_8":"Silcoff is adept at illuminating the singular truth that can be found in suffering, and in recognizing the redemptive potency of beauty.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The Walrus","OtherText_Review_9":"Silcoff captures the profound insight that comes when life is pared down to what is essential: the fierce and sometimes absurd ephemeral beauty that can bloom unexpectedly, even when one is grappling with physical agony.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"The Walrus","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A dazzling debut collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeName_0":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"Canadian Jewish Literary Awards","PrizeName_2":"Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature","PrizeYear_0":"2014","PrizeYear_1":"2015","PrizeYear_2":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2014-08-22","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A dazzling debut collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff.","Subtitle":"Stories","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Chez l'arabe
A dazzling debut collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff.
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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.
