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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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorgia Straight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA.S. Byatt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"A.S. Byatt","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEye Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Eye Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eElm Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Elm Street","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","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":"mobi","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\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? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his #1 bestseller \u003cem\u003eA Short History of Progress\u003c\/em\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. 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A Short History of Progress
The #1 national bestseller from the acclaimed author of What Is America?
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Edward Chisholm’s brilliant memoir shows us the behind-the-scenes chaos, but also lets us tour nocturnal Paris and the strange characters he meets. This is a fascinating book, full of anecdotes that would sound far-fetched in a work of fiction, but that are all absolutely true.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoman \u0026 Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Woman \u0026 Home","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Chisholm brings the restaurant world to life as he relates the stress, pressure, and anxiety felt by all the workers. The long hours, the competition among the waiters, the petty grudges, and the poor treatment by supervisors are all exposed. Most poignant are his coworkers’ stories: they share their hopes and dreams with him.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Library Journal","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“You’re invited to go on a wild journey into the dark side of Paris . . . a world of refugees, exiles, dreamers, sadistic and abusive managers, long hours, and, strangely enough, malnutrition . . . If you’ve ever carried plates in a restaurant, you will love it, and if you’ve ever eaten in a restaurant, especially a Parisian one, you need to read this book.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadio New Zealand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Radio New Zealand","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“In what could be the \u003cem\u003eKitchen Confidential\u003c\/em\u003e for Generation Z, this memoir chronicles the underbelly of one of the (if not THE) food capitals of the world, as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living. Certainly, one dreams of cooking, let alone eating, in Paris. But to work in the city’s ruthless restaurant industry means dealing with inhumane hours, little to no sleep, aggressive landlords, sadistic managers, low wages, and meals consisting of little more than bread and cigarettes.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFortune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Fortune","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“In time, Chisholm sees that waiting in Paris is not so much a profession as a job that makes escape exceptionally difficult, but by then, he has assembled sufficient tales of drama, trickery, backstabbing, and camaraderie to plot a breakout. Leaving is one thing, avoiding being sucked back another, but with this excellent book he stands a chance. It’s also a sharp reminder that a restaurant is so much more than a room full of tables, but it’s better to not pick at what lies beyond the illusion of culinary sophistication.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrong Words\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Strong Words","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA brilliant portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2022-08-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA brilliant portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
A Waiter in Paris
A brilliant portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light.
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But before I could reply, although goodness knows what I would have said, the sash was raised in one of the stately rooms below mine, and a man — funny that my first sight of Peter was his hair — stuck out his head and shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cara,” he called to the girl on the fountain, giving me her name. “Don’t be ridiculous. Wait.” He sounded exhausted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe shouted again, arms waving, mouth working, fingers pinching at the air, pushing her hair over her shoulder where it didn’t stay, and then jumping off the fountain into the long grass. She was always nimble, Cara. She came towards the house and went out of sight. Peter’s head vanished back inside, and I heard him running through Lynton’s empty and echoing rooms, imagined the dust rising and settling in the corners as he passed. 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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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Bone and Bread
A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.
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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 (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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Abdallah’s passionate love for his wife goes unrequited; she regards him with a mixture of tolerance and mild amusement. 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. The three women, their families, their loves, and their losses unspool delicately against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first ever novel originally written in Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite literary creation that marks the arrival of a major international talent.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“The glimpses into a culture relatively little known in the West are fascinating.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“A richly layered, ambitious work that teems with human struggles and contradictions, providing fascinating insight into Omani history and society.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBettany Hughes, \u003cem\u003eMan Booker International Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Bettany Hughes","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Man Booker International Prize","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","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":"mobi","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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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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Bezmozgis, author of The Free World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Chez L'arabe is a deliciously unwholesome mixture of physical disorder and family secrets and sexual obsession and Montreal. Toxically intoxicating.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStephen Marche, Esquire columnist and author of How Shakespeare Changed Everything and Love and the Mess We're In\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","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":"\u003cp\u003e“Silcoff’s wonderful descriptive observations have, unsurprisingly perhaps, a pensive, unrushed quality…these stories feel generous, expansive.” — \u003cstrong\u003eEmily Donaldson, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Emily Donaldson","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Mireille Silcoff’s “Chez L’Arabe” is an impressive debut short story collection by any measure.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRenee Ghert-Zand, \u003cem\u003eThe Times of Israel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Renee Ghert-Zand","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Times of Israel","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“…Silcoff’s stories remain unruffled, polished and mature, as smart and elegant as the characters they depict.” — \u003cstrong\u003eAyelet Tsabari, \u003cem\u003eShtetl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Ayelet Tsabari","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Shtetl","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDanuta Gleed Literary Award Jury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jury","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“Silcoff is adept at illuminating the singular truth that can be found in suffering, and in recognizing the redemptive potency of beauty.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The Walrus","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","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 Award","PrizeName_2":"Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature","PrizeYear_0":"2014","PrizeYear_1":"2015","PrizeYear_2":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","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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Coming Up for Air
A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time.
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We lived very close to poverty because the only money that came into the home was from our mother’s meager salary. Papa used all of his money to buy property. However, the real reason behind my mother’s anger was to control my father and keep him, like Milaad, under her thumb. I believed my father should have his independence as much as I wanted to have mine. I wanted to have freedom of association — to like, love, and assemble with whomever I chose, including my aunt Raazi, Papa’s younger sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntering the arrivals area and dragging my suitcase behind me, I look around for my mother and see her, along with Milaad, walking toward me. In her black winter coat, slacks, and wimple hijab, she looks slim and miserable. I speed up and we meet halfway. She throws herself into my embrace and wails. “You see, Maana, your mother is a widow now.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople standing nearby look at us with compassion. “Sorry for your loss,” they whisper as they pass. The other passengers laugh with joy as they reunite with their loved ones. Their families, dressed mostly in bright colors, shower them with flowers and kisses. I pass Maman a clean napkin I’ve saved for my own crying and hold her until her sobbing subsides.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF IRANIAN REVOLUTION IN FEBRUARY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eTimed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, we expect considerable media attention for this book in February 2019. (The Iranian people overthrew the last Shah of the Persian monarchy on February 11, 1979, and brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power. 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Divided Loyalties
A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.
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But this time he’d asked her, “Why do you want to be buried so far from town?” Kate had smiled and closed her eyes — for such a while that he thought she’d fallen asleep — then softly, but with some strength, as if to ensure that the point made it through the haze of morphine and fatigue, she said, “It’s beautiful there. It’s a lovely drive. Not too far. I know you’ll visit. And” — breathing deeply — “if it was in the city, I doubt you would. Anyway, it’ll get you out of your head for a few hours.” She was right. He’d been up once a month for the past thirty-eight months. When he’d looked at her ashes, he couldn’t see the difference between them and the ashes he retrieved from the fireplace to sprinkle on the garden — he couldn’t reassemble her. And yet, below the ground, beneath a headstone that bore only her initials, KGWM, he could imagine her on her side with her legs slightly tucked up — asleep. And it did get him out of his head. 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Erasing Memory
The heart-pounding first installment of the MacNeice Mysteries, featuring a sophisticated detective solving the murder of a beautiful violinist.
