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When our own darkness is mirrored in multi-faceted characters, do we look away in disgust or find the humanity within them and, by extension, ourselves? In his debut short fiction collection, John Mavin has slyly exposed hidden themes to the world with breathtaking...
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Thistledown Press
Parution :
2017-10-01
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Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges they face also reveal the racial, gendered...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-09-15
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A Haitian woman survives the ravages of an earthquake only to find her sister, an émigré in Montreal, the subject of a grisly crime.A chambermaid in a Mexican tourist resort frequented by Canadian tourists wonders why all the men in her life seem to leave her for...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-09-15
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The local and the universal come together in these 37 short stories, brought into English by 37 different translators from all over the world.
The result gives readers a flavour of the fresh new writing coming out of Quebec—and a reminder that there are at least 37...
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Baraka Books
Parution :
2017-08-31
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QC Fiction
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“Literary escapades enlighten and entertain in this boundary-pushing collection.” (Foreword Reviews)
“The maestro is at it again” (The Vancouver Sun)
Ten Women is a new collection of short fiction from one of Canada’s preeminent writers. Each of these stories offers us...
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Anvil Press
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2017-07-13
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”To give a feeling of Christopher Gudgeon’s new collection, let’s turn to the story that gives the book its name. In The Widow Soré, the title character finds among her deceased fiancé Guillermo’s papers what appears to be a stack of letters. Titled The...
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Anvil Press
Parution :
2017-07-13
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Finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award. Top 100 of 2017, Globe and Mail.
“… Baker pushes readers to reconsider their desire for resolution. Eschewing the easy, the neat, the smoothed over, allows us to consider...
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Anvil Press
Parution :
2017-07-12
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Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards)
In Garage Criticism Peter Babiak eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural sacred cows of our time. From Fifty Shades of Grey (“Hot for Teacher: What Fifty Shades of Grey Taught Me About Salacious Grammar, Sexy Women and...
Editeur :
Anvil Press
Parution :
2017-07-11
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The stories in this collection are unifed by a sense of dislocation. In each of the pieces, there is an underlying element of disturbance and disharmony. Resolution threads its way through the narratives while the characters struggle to navigate conscious choices and...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-05-15
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These short stories interconnect the friendships of four First Nations people — Everett Kaiswatim, Nellie Gordon, Julie Papequash, and Nathan (Taz) Mosquito — as the collection evolves over two decades against the cultural, political, and historical backdrop of the 90s...
Editeur :
Thistledown Press
Parution :
2017-04-15
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#1 BC bestselling book of 2017Winner of the 2018 BC Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice AwardA collection of stories chronicling the characters and dramas that capture life in small coastal communities.In this story collection, Pat Carney follows the rhythms of...
Editeur :
Touchwood Editions
Parution :
2017-04-04
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Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards). Winner of a gold IPPY.
The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A teenage boy spends a summer with his hard-livin’,...
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Anvil Press
Parution :
2017-03-30
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Stories, Tall Tales, and Truths of Newfoundland and Labrador
In this diverse collection of stories, Hubert Furey transports the reader back in time to an outport culture in which he lived and which has long since disappeared. It was a time when the “slapper” was deemed...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-03-24
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Stories, Tall Tales, and Truths of Newfoundland and Labrador
In this diverse collection of stories, Hubert Furey transports the reader back in time to an outport culture in which he lived and which has long since disappeared. It was a time when the “slapper” was deemed...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-03-24
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Shortlisted for the City of Hamilton book award
At times comic, tender, dark, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin’s latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the quantum world.
Ranging from short story to...
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Anvil Press
Parution :
2016-12-21
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In Teardown, Clea Young navigates the whitewater of relationships – familial and romantic, between friends new and old. Her stories seize on instances that, at the outset, appear benign – a woman encountering an old boyfriend on a BC ferry, a father chaperoning his...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
Parution :
2016-10-01
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The collective force of McCrosky’s Lifting Weights is a raw adventure into the unknown. In "Death TV" you meet a butterfly collector whose explorations into violent mayhem in television programming draws out our society’s preoccupation with watching people die as a...
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Thistledown Press
Parution :
2016-09-15
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Like the many surfaces of a gemstone, the varied aspects of human experience link the short stories in this collection, titled Aspects of Nature. Themes of finding one’s identity; conflicts of family, career and romance; loneliness, death, loss, and feelings of...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2016-05-05
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All My Fallen Angelas is a collection of stories inspired by
the lives of Italian-Canadian women living in Toronto from the 1960s to
the present. The stories document their strength and resilience, their
power and vulnerability as the women move in community that...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2016-04-15
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Hugh Garner’s Best Stories received the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2015-05-21
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