Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Indelicacy

by Amina Cain ...

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZEAn intimate, elegant, and deceptively sinister story of what a woman will do to take control of her life.A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles--cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical -- that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires.In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Also available as: Audiobook

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZEAn intimate, elegant, and deceptively sinister story of what a woman will do to take control of her life.A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles--cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical -- that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires.In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
My New Face

A Novel

by Amina Cain ...

Over a single summer holiday, a woman, her husband, and a stranger form an uneasy triangle of intimacy in this novel of art, loss, and beauty from the celebrated author of Indelicacy.A writer and her husband are spending the summer in an unnamed town. They pass their days adrift in a lush and strange place, where shops are small and intimate, the water is vivid and blue, and the streets are often ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

PRE-ORDER

Over a single summer holiday, a woman, her husband, and a stranger form an uneasy triangle of intimacy in this novel of art, loss, and beauty from the celebrated author of Indelicacy.A writer and her husband are spending the summer in an unnamed town. They pass their days adrift in a lush and strange place, where shops are small and intimate, the water is vivid and blue, and the streets are often
... Read more
A Horse at Night

On Writing

by Amina Cain ...

“A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book.” —Ayşegül Savaş“I adore her work, and sensibility,” writes Claire-Louise Bennett of Amina Cain; and Jenny Offill: “Cain writes beautiful precise ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

Also available as: Audiobook

“A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book.” —Ayşegül Savaş“I adore her work, and sensibility,” writes Claire-Louise Bennett of Amina Cain; and Jenny Offill: “Cain writes beautiful precise
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Creature

by Amina Cain ...

“Amina Cain is a beautiful writer. Like the girl in the rearview mirror in your backseat, quiet, looking out the window half smiling, then not, then glancing at you, curious to her. That is how her thoughts and words make me feel, like clouds hanging with jets, and knowing love is pure.” —Thurston MooreAmina Cain’s Creature brings together short fictions set in the space between action and ... Read more

$17.59 CAD

“Amina Cain is a beautiful writer. Like the girl in the rearview mirror in your backseat, quiet, looking out the window half smiling, then not, then glancing at you, curious to her. That is how her thoughts and words make me feel, like clouds hanging with jets, and knowing love is pure.” —Thurston MooreAmina Cain’s Creature brings together short fictions set in the space between action and
... Read more
Audiobook

A Horse at Night

On Writing

by Amina Cain ...

Narrated by Ann Marie Gideon ...

Unabridged

2 hours 52 min

Amina Cain's unique wandering sensibility, her attention to the small and the surprising, finds a profound new expression in her first nonfiction book, a sustained meditation on writers and their work. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors—including Marguerite Duras, ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Amina Cain's unique wandering sensibility, her attention to the small and the surprising, finds a profound new expression in her first nonfiction book, a sustained meditation on writers and their work. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors—including Marguerite Duras,
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Indelicacy

by Amina Cain ...

Narrated by Lauren Ezzo ...

Unabridged

3 hours

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZEAn intimate, elegant, and deceptively sinister story of what a woman will do to take control of her life.A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles--cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical -- that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires.In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily ... Read more

$22.00 CAD

Also available as: eBook

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZEAn intimate, elegant, and deceptively sinister story of what a woman will do to take control of her life.A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles--cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical -- that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires.In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Audiobook

Birds of America

Stories

by Lorrie Moore ...

Narrated by Natasha Soudek ...

Unabridged

10 hours 11 min

The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work todayFrom the opening story, “Willing”—about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being—Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work todayFrom the opening story, “Willing”—about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being—Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Next Year, For Sure

by Zoey Leigh Peterson ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Cottle ...

Unabridged

5 hours 59 min

****Longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize**Finalist for the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize**Finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award**A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2017**A Quill & Quire Reviewers' Book of the YearAn unflinching, sage and mesmerizing portrait of an open relationship, Next Year, For Sure defies expectation and heralds the beginning of a bright writing career.**After ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

****Longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize**Finalist for the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize**Finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award**A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2017**A Quill & Quire Reviewers' Book of the YearAn unflinching, sage and mesmerizing portrait of an open relationship, Next Year, For Sure defies expectation and heralds the beginning of a bright writing career.**After
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Pure Colour

by Sheila Heti ...

Narrated by Sheila Heti ...

Unabridged

3 hours 51 min

**WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER • THE GLOBE AND MAIL • VULTURE • CBC • GLAMOUR • READER'S DIGEST CANADA“True and newly alive.” —Los Angeles Times“One-of-a-kind. . . . nothing less than vital.” —The GuardianA new novel about art, love, death and time f... ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

**WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER • THE GLOBE AND MAIL • VULTURE • CBC • GLAMOUR • READER'S DIGEST CANADA“True and newly alive.” —Los Angeles Times“One-of-a-kind. . . . nothing less than vital.” —The GuardianA new novel about art, love, death and time f...
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Actress

A Novel

by Anne Enright ...

Narrated by Anne Enright ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright's latest--a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths.**This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright's latest--a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths.**This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Astra

A Novel

by Cedar Bowers ...

Narrated by Athena Karkanis ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

What if you could see yourself as others see you? Astra is a beguiling debut novel that reveals the different faces of one woman, as seen through the eyes of ten people over a lifetime. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, Winnipeg Free Press, and CBC Books.Born and raised on a remote ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

What if you could see yourself as others see you? Astra is a beguiling debut novel that reveals the different faces of one woman, as seen through the eyes of ten people over a lifetime. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, Winnipeg Free Press, and CBC Books.Born and raised on a remote
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Monogamy

A Novel

by Sue Miller ...

Narrated by Sue Miller ...

Unabridged

10 hours 54 min

“A sensual and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity, Miller resists the simple scorned-wife story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexities—and the absurdities—of love, infidelity, and grief.” —O, the Oprah MagazineA brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow, from New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

“A sensual and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity, Miller resists the simple scorned-wife story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexities—and the absurdities—of love, infidelity, and grief.” —O, the Oprah MagazineA brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow, from New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“amina cain”

Indelicacy

My New Face

A Horse at Night

Creature

A Horse at Night

Indelicacy

People who read these also enjoyed

Birds of America

Next Year, For Sure

Pure Colour

Actress

Astra

Monogamy

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“amina cain”

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed