The Gift from Berlin

By Lucette ter Borg; Liedewy Hawke, trans.

Memory, war, loss, and forgiveness: these are the features of award-winning novels. The Gift from Berlin, winner of the 2005 National Dutch Debut Prize, attempts to cram all of them between its covers. The novel ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Berlin

By Michael Mirolla

Berlin, from Toronto writer Michael Mirolla, is an ambitious novel concerned with, among many other things, the nature of identity, the weight of history, the significance of catastrophe, and the legacies of both fascism and ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!

By Jonathan Goldstein

The title pretty much says it all. Jonathan Goldstein, broadcaster and author of the ReLit Award-winning Lenny Bruce Is Dead, has gone beyond all previous translations of the Bible by taking all of the Good ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Colour of Lightning

By Paulette Jiles

The Colour of Lightning opens with Britt Johnson, a freed slave (and an actual historical figure), travelling from Kentucky to north Texas with his family in the waning days of the American Civil War. There ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Depth of Field

By Michael Blair

Thomas McCall may be a commercial photographer on Granville Island, but his third series appearance opens with classic P.I. lingo – “The fog outside my window was so thick you could scoop it up with ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees

By Deborah Ellis

For children born into the often easy and materialistic certainties of North American culture, war is mostly the stuff of video games or fantasy fiction, readily engaged or dismissed with the nod of a joystick. ... Read More »

February 17, 2009

Whispers from the Ghettos

By Kathy Kacer and Sharon McKay

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The Winter Vault

By Anne Michaels

One of the early albums by the 1980s new wave band Talking Heads is More Songs About Buildings and Food. If the titans of Canadian fiction issued a similarly titled collection of work, it would ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Maddy’s Amazing African Birthday

By Megan K. Williams; Allessandro Vallecchi and Maddalena Vallecchi Williams, photog.

For her 10th birthday, Maddy Williams got a pretty overwhelming surprise present from her globetrotting photographer uncle: a trip to Tanzania. She flew over and spent two weeks driving around in a jeep with her ... Read More »

February 17, 2009

Advice for Italian Boys

By Anne Giardini

Former National Post columnist (and daughter of beloved CanLit icon Carol Shields) Anne Giardini has hit her stride with her second novel. While her debut, The Sad Truth About Happiness, may have been praised, it ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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