This novel explores the snares of individual and collective memory as they are used to justify and preserve ancestral grudges.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889225664
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A Crossing of Hearts continues Michel Tremblay’s Desrosiers Diaspora series of novels, a family saga set in Montreal during World War I. August 1915. Montreal is stifled by a heat wave while war rages in Europe. The three Desrosiers sisters – Tititte, Teena, and Maria – had been planning a…
$16.95 | 240 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772010114
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This charming intrigue starts with an enigmatic manuscript that brings together two disparate characters. The first is an embalmer who, unable to look after the living, devotes himself to the dead. The secondis an ailing concert pianist consorting with the ghosts of his past. Their tragic encounter is brilliantly illuminated by black humor and compassion.
$18.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889228405
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Short-listed 2009 Governor General's Award for Translation
Writing in multiple voices, with keen psychological insight, Bourguignon examines relationships, past wounds and present possibilities with raucous warmth.
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889225961
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A coda to his great Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal cycle of novels. Tremblay creates, with grace and tenderness, a fictionalized account of the death of his own mother.
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
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ISBN 13: 9780889223905
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Is an artist born, or rather, created by experience? From the moment in childhood when he is forced to take drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from a violent assault – the only maternal figure that he has ever known – it is evident that the life of Joseph…
$14.95 | 168 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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| Bisac: FIC025000
ISBN 13: 9780889226968
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Short-listed 2005 Governor General's Literary Award
Haunted by the iron jealousy of their commanding officer, Dulac and Nell must risk everything to pursue each of their desires.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889225206
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Taking the theme of postmodernity one step further with 23 short stories edited by Canada’s first poet laureate: Alexis, Arnason, Atwood, Blaise, Bowering, Burnham, Cohen, Dorsey, Elliot, Farrant, Fawcett, Findley, Goto, Fraser, King, Laferrière, Mayr, Rooke, Schoemperlen, Thomas, Verdecchia and Watson.
$24.95 | 320 pages | Pub. Date: 2001
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| Bisac: FIC003000
ISBN 13: 9780889224513
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Winner 2013 Prix Méditerranée
Winner 2013 Prix du deuxieme roman
Winner 2012 Grand Prix Thyde Monnier
This award-winning novel by playwright Wadji Mouawad is a thriller and a road novel – written in the North African storytelling tradition in which events unfold from an animal point of view. The novel opens with a brutal murder: the protagonist arrives home to find his wife lying in a…
$19.95 | 368 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
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ISBN 13: 9781772010039
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Heartily sincere, human, and compassionate, Around Her is a multifaceted novel that explores, through the words and reflections of a large community of characters, the bonds that unite us, and love in all of its manifestations – the love that one finds, that one loses, destroys, desires, or recovers.In the…
$19.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772012095
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