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No Pain Like This Body
The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community.
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The power of these stories comes from the writer’s understanding of the politics of exploitation and her refusal to look away.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Rosemary Sullivan, author of Stalin's Daughter and The Betrayal of Anne Frank","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully written, masterfully crafted collection that explores the trauma of loss. Its vivid characters stayed with me long after I finished the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Marina Nemat, author of Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eBrimming with unforgettable characters who find themselves in unimaginable circumstances \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e shines with brilliance and will leave you breathless. Bátiz’s prose sparkles against the dark background of heartbreaking choices and harsh realities, and lights up the senses. This book is meant to be read slowly and savoured.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Christina Kilbourne, author of Safe Harbour and The Limitless Sky","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e, Martha Bátiz travels across countries and cultures with confidence, humour, and an ear for the musicality of language. Her stories, both beautiful and terrifying, deal with loss, depression, injustice, and the need to love and be loved. 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No Stars in the Sky
A new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz.
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Not That Kind of Place
A rising literary star delivers a haunting exploration of the long-term effects of systemic violence.
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Nothing for You Here, Young Man
The sixth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. This novel is a dazzling, complex portrait of life that shows us how creativity and hope and suffering and exclusion intersect.
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After several years in Hong Kong, she now lives in Amsterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Tse, Dorothy","Contributor_1":"Bruce, Natascha","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe winner of a 2021 PEN\/Heim Translation Fund grant, \u003cem\u003eOwlish\u003c\/em\u003e is a fantastically eerie debut novel that is also a bold exploration of life under oppressive regimes. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a city called Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lackluster career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard. And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition: a music box ballerina named Aliss who has tantalizingly sprung to life. 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Like all the best fairy tales, it reveals the dark truths that we would rather not look at directly, and does so with a surreal and singular clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Sophie Mackintosh, author of Cursed Bread","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eA magical and potent tale for these tyrannical times.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"NoViolet Bulawayo, author of Glory","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOwlish\u003c\/em\u003e is so delightfully creepy, wonderful, and strange—I loved it.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Camilla Grudova, author of Children of Paradise","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eA bold, brilliantly absorbing read. This clever, mercurial portrait of an alternate Hong Kong lingers long after the last page.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eDorothy Tse is a magnificent historian of unreal places. Her sage and serious characters are cast adrift in realities that are neither sage nor serious at all—and possibly impossible. Her parallel worlds and paradoxes brilliantly illuminate our own reality, with all its fictions masquerading as facts (and vice versa). Boundlessly creative, richly philosophical—I loved this book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Joanna Kavenna, author of Zed","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003eBy turns playful and melancholy, Dorothy Tse’s tales never fail to mesmerize. They are wonderfully assured, and genuinely strange.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Likes","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003eTse joins the ranks of artists currently remaking the world, from Yoko Tawada to César Aira.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eOn one level, the novel is about a middle-aged professor’s doomed love affair with a doll named Aliss. But it is also a highly ambitious and original exploration of life under oppressive political regimes. Set in an alternate near-future, \u003cem\u003eOwlish\u003c\/em\u003e is a boldly innovative wake-up call, forcing readers to confront the perils of apathy, complacency, and indifference.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpon original publication the novel was a finalist for the fiction prize at the 2021 Taipei Book Fair. Tse has previously won the Hong Kong Book Prize, the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature, Taiwan’s Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award, and the Hong Kong Award for Creative Writing in Chinese. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUK rights to \u003cem\u003eOwlish\u003c\/em\u003e were acquired by Fitzcarraldo in a seven-way auction in early 2021.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eThrough the dark rearview mirror of Tse’s fiction, Hong Kong’s past collides with its future.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Bookseller","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eIt is as though [\u003cem \u003eOwlish\u003c\/em\u003e], with its ellipses and obstructed messages, were depicting the reality-warping effects of an uncanny, constraining force—a force like state censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eWhat’s most evocative about \u003cem \u003eOwlish\u003c\/em\u003e is its scrupulous recall of the city’s quirks … [Tse] wittily captures a recent crisis moment in Hong Kong, exploring a discombobulating state caught between civilisation and its discontents.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eI was blown away by the craft, inventiveness, and humour of \u003cem\u003eOwlish\u003c\/em\u003e … A frustrated literature professor retreats into a secret inner world in this playful novel set in an alternate Hong Kong: a disquieting tale of revolt and rebellion, denial and self-delusion, and the tricks we perform to keep going in life … \u003cem\u003eOwlish\u003c\/em\u003e is both a sly subversion of fairytales and a Kafkaesque portrait of life under an oppressive regime.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Bookseller","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eAbsorbing, erotic and at times nightmarish. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Guardian","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003eTse combines the banal and the fantastic to terrific effect. Full of striking imagery, \u003cem\u003eOwlish \u003c\/em\u003eis a vertiginous tale of a people sleepwalking into catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eOwlish \u003c\/em\u003emoves past allegory and arrives at a place that is more profound.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Brooklyn Rail","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003efantastical yet utterly absurd … Tse’s novel is ultimately a discussion of British colonialism, oppression and censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Stanford Daily","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderfully imaginative fable that resonates with political critique and protest.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003eWith consummate skill, Tse builds a strange yet somehow familiar backdrop for her story.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Asian Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable and the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2023-05-16","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable and the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Owlish
With your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable and the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself?
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We remember you as quite a philosopher, with a tendency to place mundane events in historical, usually ancient Greek, perspective. Surely, this is the very moment … ah … a passing thought: the groom appears to you as a man without bones, the kind whose flesh is as yielding as a woman’s; and the idea of those two softnesses copulating is disgusting to you. Too strong? Offensive, merely, then. That will have to do for now. Perhaps, later, at the reception, after a few drinks, we’ll get back to you.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A remarkable piece of writing.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Polished, forceful, and poetic.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_2":"Handled with skill.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_3":"A brilliant first work of fiction.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_4":"[Passing Ceremony] crackles with the energy of chance. 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Passing Ceremony
A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.
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Now available in a new edition, Douglas Coupland’s CBC Massey Lectures is an innovative exploration of the modern crises of our time.
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Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom
The fourth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. The tone of the portrait of contemporary North America is different in this novel and Blais' prose has now acquired a buoyant, electrifying rhythm.
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River Meets the Sea
A spellbinding, spirited tale of two men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to feel at home in their own skins.
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Roch Carrier's La Guerre Trilogy
Roch Carrier’s La Guerre trilogy is a vital, moving, and assured portrait of life in Quebec, and one of the major achievements in Quebec literature.
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Saha
The much-anticipated follow-up to the multi-million-copy selling South Korean sensation Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982.
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Silken Gazelles
An unforgettable story of friendship, love, and the impact of childhood from the first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize.
