A Covenant of Salt
By Martine Desjardins
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

This novel explores the snares of individual and collective memory as they are used to justify and preserve ancestral grudges.

A Crossing of Hearts
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman

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…

A Matter of Gravity
By Hélène Vachon
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

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.

A Slight Case of Fatigue
By Stéphane Bourguignon
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Writing in multiple voices, with keen psychological insight, Bourguignon examines relationships, past wounds and present possibilities with raucous warmth.

A Thing of Beauty
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman

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.

Against the Wind
By Madeleine Gagnon
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

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…

All That Glitters
By Martine Desjardins
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

Haunted by the iron jealousy of their commanding officer, Dulac and Nell must risk everything to pursue each of their desires.

And Other Stories
Edited by George Bowering

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.

Anima
By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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…

Around Her
By Sophie Bienvenu
Translated by Rhonda Mullins

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…