★ Kahn & Engelmann

An emeritus professor of German romantic literature living in Rockwood, Ontario, Hans Eichner published this, his first novel, at the tender age of 79, then had to wait almost a decade after its critical and ... Read More »

February 23, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Gift from Berlin

By Lucette ter Borg; Liedewy Hawke, trans.

Memory, war, loss, and forgiveness: these are the features of award-winning novels. The Gift from Berlin, winner of the 2005 National Dutch Debut Prize, attempts to cram all of them between its covers. The novel ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Berlin

By Michael Mirolla

Berlin, from Toronto writer Michael Mirolla, is an ambitious novel concerned with, among many other things, the nature of identity, the weight of history, the significance of catastrophe, and the legacies of both fascism and ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!

By Jonathan Goldstein

The title pretty much says it all. Jonathan Goldstein, broadcaster and author of the ReLit Award-winning Lenny Bruce Is Dead, has gone beyond all previous translations of the Bible by taking all of the Good ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Colour of Lightning

By Paulette Jiles

The Colour of Lightning opens with Britt Johnson, a freed slave (and an actual historical figure), travelling from Kentucky to north Texas with his family in the waning days of the American Civil War. There ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Depth of Field

By Michael Blair

Thomas McCall may be a commercial photographer on Granville Island, but his third series appearance opens with classic P.I. lingo – “The fog outside my window was so thick you could scoop it up with ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Winter Vault

By Anne Michaels

One of the early albums by the 1980s new wave band Talking Heads is More Songs About Buildings and Food. If the titans of Canadian fiction issued a similarly titled collection of work, it would ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Advice for Italian Boys

By Anne Giardini

Former National Post columnist (and daughter of beloved CanLit icon Carol Shields) Anne Giardini has hit her stride with her second novel. While her debut, The Sad Truth About Happiness, may have been praised, it ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Overqualified

By Joey Comeau

Toronto writer Joey Comeau’s second novel consists of 40 job application cover letters, each addressed to a different potential employer and signed with the novelist’s own name. Though his desire for gainful employment may be ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Virgin’s Tale

By Sherri Smith

Sherri Smith opens her debut novel with an eerie scene: a woman buried alive and left to suffocate alone in her tomb. The 400+ pages that follow tell her story — and the claustrophobia never ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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