World Literature

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White World

For Avaan, a gun in his hand feels as natural as breathing. As a Pakistani without citizenship, living under martial law and religious bigotry, violence has become a way of life. What respite he had from ...

Rubble Children

In seven-and-a-half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter’s Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, ...

Out of the Shadows

By (author) Gordon Henderson & David Bouchard
Categories: Classic fiction

Set during the dramatic Red River Resistance of 1869-1870 and the birth of Manitoba. The novel is told through the perspective of a young Irish-Canadian journalist, Conor O?Dea. Under mysterious circumstances, ...

The Russian Daughter

By (author) Sarah Klassen
Categories: Historical fiction

With the Czarist empire in turmoil, a young Mennonite couple in what is now Ukraine adopt a Russian baby. This historical novel explores themes of belonging, responsibility, and the places we call home. ...

We Have Never Lived On Earth

By (author) Kasia Van Schaik
Categories: Short stories
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother ...

The Sleeping Car Porter

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE 2023 GEORGES BUGNET AWARD FOR FICTION

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ...

Her First Palestinian

By (author) Saeed Teebi
Categories: Short stories

Finalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional ...

Fearnoch

By (author) Jim McEwen
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

***2023 IPPY AWARDS: CANADA EAST FICTION – BRONZE MEDAL***

***2022 FOREWORD INDIES BOOK AWARD – FINALIST***

Steinbeck meets Miriam Toews in this insightful and illuminating debut about the decline of ...

Dandelion

Longlisted for Canada Reads

Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs.

 

When Lily was eleven ...