Madeleine Thien: 8 books

The second novel by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author Madeleine Thien is "beautiful, deeply moving, [and] addresses universal questions" (Independent). Set in Cambodia during the regime of the-Khmer Rouge and in present day Montreal, Dogs at the Perimeter tells the story of...

**Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award // Finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction "A powerfully expansive novel…Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor." —New York Times Book Review** “In a single...

From Canada's global cities to its Arctic Circle - from the country's ongoing story of civil rights movements to languages under pressure - the writers in this issue upend the ways we imagine land, reconciliation, truth and belonging, revealing the histories of a nation's future. Margaret Atwood,...

Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an...

Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général 2016 Prix Giller 2016 Finaliste du Man Booker Prize 2016 Finaliste Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 À Vancouver, en 1991, une fillette de 10 ans, Marie, et sa mère accueillent chez elles Ai-Ming, une jeune femme fuyant la Chine après la répression...

The celebrated annual fiction collection showcasing the best stories by the best new writers in Canada, all contenders for the prestigious $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Like the O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories...

Quando Marie vede per la prima volta il capitolo 17 del «Libro dei ricordi» - un taccuino lungo e stretto, coperto di ideogrammi che lei non è in grado di riconoscere -, ancora non sa che quella storia, letta, raccontata, ricopiata, passata di mano in mano, la accompagnerà per il resto della vita....

Janie ha lasciato la Cambogia a undici anni. In Canada, ad attenderla, c'è il suo futuro: l'adolescenza con la madre adottiva, gli studi di elettrofisiologia, e poi l'incontro con Navin, il marito, e la nascita di Kiri. I genitori e Sopham, il fratello minore, li ha seppelliti insieme alla sua vecchia...