Fiction: Novels

Before I Wake

It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: one moment, a child is skipping along the pavement; the next, he or she is obliterated by a speeding car. In the instant that three-year-old Sherry Barrett becomes a hit-and-run ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

By Anita Rau Badami

The Air India disaster and its frustrating 21-year aftermath has been the subject of at least half a dozen non-fiction books of investigative journalism in this country, and they are still coming. But Anita Rau ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Invisible Armies

By Jon Evans

Jon Evans’ previous two novels featured travellers who had an amazing ability to get themselves into all sorts of trouble while we watched them run for their lives and outsmart their attackers. Evans has a ... Read More »

June 26, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Miss Lamp

By Chris Ewart

There is no enduring tradition of experimental fiction in Canada. Despite the perennial appearance of Leonard Cohen’s second novel, Beautiful Losers, on university English literature syllabuses, and despite the heroic efforts of a small handful ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Perfect Circle

By Pascale Quiviger; Sheila Fischman, trans.

“Happiness asks to move along with life, it requires that perfect circles be broken.” So ends Pascale Quiviger’s first novel, The Perfect Circle. Marianne, Quiviger’s main character, takes a chance on love, aspiring to insinuate ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades

By Nega Mezlekia

The publicity bumph for Ethiopian-born Nega Mezlekia’s second novel places him in the company of Gabriel García Márquez and Ben Okri, among others. I would add one more: Rohinton Mistry. Like Mistry, Mezlekia writes in ... Read More »

June 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

De Niro’s Game

By Rawi Hage

There’s an adjective that has too long languished in the negative camp of book reviews. I’d like to reclaim it. Calling prose “flat” is usually one of the less hurtful ways of saying that a ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lost Girls and Love Hotels

By Catherine Hanrahan

As fascinating as contemporary Japanese culture is to a seemingly large segment of the North American population, there are only a small handful of Canadian-penned novels set in the modern-day land of the rising sun. ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Madame Zee

By Pearl Luke

The real-life story of the mysterious Madame Zee receives an intriguing treatment in this novel by Pearl Luke. What is curious is that the fictionalized details are almost more compelling than the actual facts, which ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

jPod

By Douglas Coupland

Like its 1995 predecessor, Microserfs, Douglas Coupland’s latest foray into the annals of extreme contemporaneousness delves into the world of a group of young programmers, this time substituting a Vancouver-based video-game design company for Microsoft. ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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