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Fiction: Novels

Milosz

By Cordelia Strube

In her ninth novel, Cordelia Strube continues to examine the complexities of contemporary life with equal doses comedy and misanthropy. Milo Krupi is an underemployed actor in his late thirties living in Toronto. His girlfriend ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Baggage

By Jill Sooley

No matter how loving its members may be, it’s the rare stepfamily that doesn’t have at least some messiness attached to it. In her second novel, Newfoundland’s Jill Sooley examines the delicate dynamics of one ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Song of Kosovo

By Chris Gudgeon

Song of Kosovo is half galloping Bildungsroman, half treatise on the fraught interplay of truth, lies, and myth in what we end up calling history. Zavida Zankovic, a Serb press-ganged into paramilitary service, finds himself ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Exit Papers from Paradise

By Liam Card

Isaac Sullivan has been bitter ever since his alcoholic father’s on-the-job mishap forced Isaac to quit high school and join the family plumbing business. At 36, the overly intelligent, underemployed plumber and aspiring doctor is ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Carnival

By Rawi Hage

At about the halfway point in Rawi Hage’s new novel, a taxi driver named Fly offers a ride to a stripper named Sally. After getting into the cab, Sally spots a copy of Jean Genet’s ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Purchase

By Linda Spalding

The past sometimes seems like a beautiful place, but it is a damn good thing we don’t live there anymore. Linda Spalding’s new novel begins in Pennsylvania in 1798, when Daniel Dickinson and his young ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Until the Night

By Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt, a pivotal figure in the Canadian crime fiction scene, returns with the sixth instalment of his series featuring detective duo John Cardinal and Lise Delorme. Over the course of the previous books, as ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels