Fiction: Novels

The Ghost of Understanding

Jean Smith is an artist: like all genuine talents of the maverick variety, she feels maddeningly and wholly entitled to our attention, and she hasn’t an atom of self-consciousness about relating events and displaying emotions ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sword of Goliath

By Martin S. Cohen

Martin S. Cohen’s third novel is a rambling, discursive mystery that sends its kindly protagonist, Michael Prager, on a search to uncover an ancient secret. Shaped by the minutiae of Jewish lore and erudite biblical ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bitter Taste of Time

By Béa Gonzalez

It’s a familiar literary scenario: in a lush, troubled country lives a family of women. Their men have all died tragically or abandoned them scandalously. The iron-willed matriarch maintains order through numerous disasters, but her ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Boy of Good Breeding

By Miriam Toews

Tell me, is there a Canadian, male or female, who doesn’t know what a Zamboni is? Miriam Toews, in her second novel A Boy of Good Breeding, would have us believe that in spring 1996 ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Widow for One Year

By John Irving

“My novels aren’t ideas...I begin with the characters, which leads me to the problems that the characters are prone to have, which yields a story – every time.” The speaker here is Ruth Cole, one ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wise and Foolish Virgins

By Don Hannah

Don Hannah’s first novel The Wise and Foolish Virgins is one of this year’s selections in Knopf Canada’s “New Face of Fiction” series. Knopf’s annual spring campaign to uncover the next CanLit rising star has ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Man of Bone

By Alan Cumyn

All prepared for a first diplomatic posting in Beijing, Bill Burridge is sent instead to Santa Irene, a troubled island republic near Vietnam. The republic is fictional, but the scenario of corruption, human rights abuses, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Badass on a Softail

By T.F. Rigelhof

It’s not what you do, but why you do it. That nugget of pop psychology is at the heart of Quebec novelist T.F. Rigelhof’s latest book, Badass on a Softail. Protagonist David Hoffer finds himself at ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mr. Doyle & Dr. Bell: A Victorian Mystery

By Howard Engel

Get out your pipe and magnifying glass, because veteran writer Howard Engel’s Mr. Doyle & Dr. Bell provides mystery buffs with more to ponder than your average whodunit. This carefully constructed mystery surrounds the case of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Forgetting Room

By Nick Bantock

Summoned to Ronda, Spain, after inheriting his grandfather’s house, Armon Hurt is drawn into a surreal and mysterious treasure hunt, carefully laid out by his grandfather. In a room where forgetting is remembering, the real ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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