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A Live Bird In Its Jaws

A Live Bird In Its Jaws

Jeanne-Mance Delisle

Translated by Yves Saint-Pierre

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama, this is a play within a play. Hélène is writing a play which draws heavily on the past of her lover and his twin brother, but refuses to reveal... >>

Any Mail? and Other Stories

Any Mail? and Other Stories

Gérald Tougas

Translated by Rachelle Renaud

Governor General's Award winner Gérald Tougas takes ironic aim at the "religious" education of a child in a franco-Manitoban village, an adolescent's eye-opening experiences on the male-dominated... >>

Evidence to the Contrary

Evidence to the Contrary

Hélène Pedneault

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Lena Fulvi has been arrested for her mother's murder. She insists it was an accident, but she has been accused by a nurse who saw her do the deed, and her sisters happily furnish a motive. But the... >>

Le soleil du lac qui se couche/The Setting Lake Sun (ebook)

Le soleil du lac qui se couche/The Setting Lake Sun (ebook)

J.R. Léveillé

Translated by S.E. Stewart

With an introduction by Marc Gontard

Angèle is a young Métis woman who dreams of becoming an architect. One evening in a Winnipeg art gallery at a show by a Native artist... >>

The Grand Hotel of Foreigners

The Grand Hotel of Foreigners

Claude Beausoleil

Translated by George Morrissette and Jed English

Beausoleil invites the reader on a voyage which is as much an interior one as a physical one, making the reader a traveller into his own mysteries as he questions the nature of solitude, wandering,... >>

The Setting Lake Sun

The Setting Lake Sun

J.R. Léveillé

Translated by S.E. Stewart

Angèle is a young Métis woman who dreams of becoming an architect. One evening in a Winnipeg art gallery at a show by a Native artist she happens to meet Ueno Takami, an aging Japanese poet. It is... >>

True Copies

True Copies

Monique LaRue

Translated by Lucie Ranger

Winner of the 1990 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal, True Copies is an evocative tale of love, loss and deception. A young Québecoise's quest for a missing computer disk leads her through the... >>

Vetiver

Vetiver

Joël Des Rosiers

Translated by Hugh Hazelton

Vetiver, a grass originally from the Indies, has overgrown the island of Haiti. The plant in exile becomes a symbol for the emigré in this English translation of Des Rosiers' prize-winning poetry.... >>