Fiction: Novels

The Streets of Winter

Author and notable critic Stephen Henighan has criticized CanLit for “failing to engage the urban present.” It is unclear, then, why Henighan has chosen to set his new novel amid an urban reality – Montreal ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Momentum of Red

By Monica Kidd

Fathers and daughters. Of all the permutations of family that novelists tend to fixate on, this is one of the least explored. Why that should be is unclear, since there is potentially just as much ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning

By Catherine Mavrikakis, Nathalie Stephens, trans.

Hervé has never been a popular name in Quebec. Nevertheless, Montrealer Catherine Mavrikakis opens her short novel A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning by saying that all her friends are named Hervé and most are HIV-positive. ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Skinny

By Ibi Kaslik

A novel in which anorexia plays a major role is at risk of becoming pathologized, symptoms of illness overwhelming the narrative. This is not the case in Ibi Kaslik’s beautifully written first novel. In the ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Woman in Bronze

By Antanas Sileika

According to the locals, the town of Merdine is the safest place on Earth to practice adultery. After committing their sin in the ruins of a castle at the top of a hill, a couple ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sojourn

By Alan Cumyn

Young Ramsey Crome is a Canadian private mired in the trenches of the First World War. Knee deep in mud, surrounded by exploding shells and dying friends, he’s certain he will be blown to bits ... Read More »

April 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Innocent Graves

By Peter Robinson

Blonde and beautiful Deborah Harrison, a 16-year-old student, has been strangled, her almost nude body spread-eagled near an ancient mausoleum. The images appear in a chilling kaleidoscope, drawn with a talent Peter Robinson has honed ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Was Hitler’s Cat

By N.J. Dodic

Any book that plays Hitler for laughs has its work cut out for it. First, there are the jokes themselves, which must succeed on every page, given the very small market for Nazi comedy. Second, ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Memory Lane: A Willows and Parker Mystery

By Laurence Gough

Series mystery writers always have to compete with themselves while trying to keep the faith with readers who just want variations on the same old theme. Laurence Gough typically responds on two tracks, first by ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gaffer: A Novel of Newfoundland

By Kevin Major

Shorn of his duties to the teen set, Kevin Major, a Newfoundland writer best known for his YA fiction, neglects the elements that typically make a novel work: clarity, story, character. Instead, he indulges style ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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