Fiction: Novels

The Girl Before, the Girl After

By Louis-Philippe Hébert; Jonathan Kaplansky trans.

The perils of romantic preoccupation inform The Girl Before, the Girl After, the translation of Quebec poet and novelist Louis-Philippe Hébert’s 2012 novella, Celle d’avant et celle d’après. With its unconventional structure and evocative sexual ... Read More »

December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Paths of Desire

By Emmanuel Kattan; Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo trans.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict sits at the heart of Montreal-born novelist Emmanuel Kattan’s latest offering in translation. While Kattan frames his story as a genre mystery, the larger thematic ties to the Middle East crisis lend ... Read More »

December 18, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barker

By Wayne Tefs

The latest and, unfortunately, final novel by Winnipeg author Wayne Tefs (who died of cancer in September), is a mesmerizing tale of self-discovery about Harlan, an unusual teenaged boy living on a hardscrabble Saskatchewan farm ... Read More »

December 15, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

By Emma Hooper

Debut novelist Emma Hooper provides a carefully calibrated setting, but not all the elements in this book come through so vibrantly, writes Dory Cerny Early one morning, 82-year-old Etta Kinnick puts on her boots, fills ... Read More »

December 11, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, History

Grey Eyes

By Frank Christopher Busch

In Grey Eyes, Frank Christopher Busch takes the reader back to a pre-contact aboriginal society. At the start of the novel, a grey-eyed child known as Little Grey Bear Boy is born; his birth changes ... Read More »

December 1, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, History

Celia’s Song

By Lee Maracle

Generations of First Nations in Canada have suffered a history of unthinkable trauma and hardship in the aftermath of European settlement, prompting ongoing attempts at healing and reconciliation. Lee Maracle’s new novel, a work of ... Read More »

November 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Sudden Sun

By Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

Choice and circumstance have great power to alter the direction of a life; so too does history. The late-19th and early 20th centuries were a period of tumult and social change: women’s suffrage was sweeping ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

None So Blind

By Barbara Fradkin

With the 10th novel in her Inspector Green mystery series, Ottawa writer Barbara Fradkin demonstrates just why two of the earlier instalments have been awarded the Arthur Ellis from the Crime Writers of Canada. None ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beautiful West and the Beloved of God

By Michael Springate

The first novel by Vancouver-based playwright Michael Springate is the latest in a small wave of fiction focusing on the fraught relations between the West and the Middle East. A small wave, not because the ... Read More »

November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Politics & Current Affairs

The Search for Heinrich Schlögel

By Martha Baillie

The legend of Rip Van Winkle looms in the background of Martha Baillie’s surrealist new novel. Our titular protagonist is a 20-year-old German who travels to Canada’s high north in the summer of 1980. While ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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