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A taut and unsparing novel about a community plagued by violence, drugs, corruption, and prejudice—but where love and justice prevail.
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A riveting chronicle of the battle for chess supremacy and the brilliant, eccentric, extremely online grandmasters changing an ancient game.
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The action is gripping, but what really propels the narrative along is a simmering, growing tension. . . . a hell of a good story.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Into the Sun, Béchard's latest novel, is a masterful blend of the best of long and short fiction techniques and proof of an exceptional imagination.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Ottawa Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"When a car bomb explodes, a journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers three fellow ex-pats in an unlikely love triangle.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-09-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"When a car bomb explodes, a journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers three fellow ex-pats in an unlikely love triangle.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Into the Sun
When a car bomb explodes, a journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers three fellow ex-pats in an unlikely love triangle.
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Anxiety, hospitalization, and body paranoia recur in the poems’ imagery — Sinaee went through two-and-a-half years of chemotherapy in his mid-twenties, documented in the vertiginous multipart prose poem “Twelve Storeys” — making \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e a book that seems especially timely, notably in the dreamlike, minimalist sequence “Half-Life,” written during the lockdown in Toronto in spring 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProgressing from plain-spoken dispatches about city life to lucid nightmares of the calamities of history, the poems in \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e ultimately grapple with, and even embrace, the daily undertaking of living through whatever the hell it is we’re living through.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487009205","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487009205\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Attuned to discourses regarding the spectral nature of just about everything,’ Bardia Sinaee illuminates our modern gothic in his debut collection, Intruder. 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His first collection is sure to be an enormous draw to those already familiar with his impressive body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/prismmagazine.ca\/2020\/01\/14\/58-2-teaser-get-to-know-bardia-sinaee\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/prismmagazine.ca\/2020\/01\/14\/58-2-teaser-get-to-know-bardia-sinaee\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePOEMS AT THE HEART OF CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS: \u003c\/strong\u003eBardia’s poetry touches on urban life, health and sickness, xenophobia, and migration. These are poems that speak to the modern world in all its difficulties and complexities, appealing to readers of Danez Smith and Rae Armantrout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMELY WRITING ON COVID-19: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e will be one of the first published poetry collections to respond to the COVID-19 epidemic, both its personal and global impacts. 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Intruder
In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.
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Invisible Lines
An indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel.
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Is American Democracy in Crisis?
The twenty-first semi-annual Munk Debate considers the current crisis of American democracy.
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Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?
The twentieth semi-annual Munk Debate discusses the end of the liberal international order.
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Is Work Killing You?
From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive guide to treating excessive stress in the workplace.
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Ivan Illich in Conversation
In a series of conversations with David Cayley, Ivan Illich alights on such topics as education, history, language, politics, and the church.
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I’m Not Sydney!
Sydney and his friends gather outside to play, transforming one by one to climb, leap, lumber and soar into a shared jungle of their imagination.
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ages 10
to 14
/ grades 5
to 8
Jane, the Fox and Me
A graphic novel about bullying, body image and the transformative power of fiction.
