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  • All That Matters

    par Wayson Choy ...
    Set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s, Choy continues the story of the Chen family household, this time narrated by First Son, Kiam-Kim. We first meet Kiam-Kim at the age of eight, staring at the yellowed photograph of his mother, who died in China when he was just a baby. Kiam-Kim, Poh-Poh (his larger-than-life grandmother) and Mr. Chen, his demure and honest father, journey to a ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Not Yet

    A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying

    par Wayson Choy ...
    Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living.In 2001, Wayson Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. As he lay in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, his days punctuated by the beeps of the machines that were keeping him alive, Choy heard the voices of his ancestors warning him that without a ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Jade Peony

    par Wayson Choy ...
    Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and �40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate, kinship and otherness. Mingling with the ... En savoir plus

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    par SKY Lee ...
    Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to Vancouver’s Chinatown.Intricate and lyrical, suspenseful and ... En savoir plus

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  • Little Gods

    A Novel

    par Meng Jin ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD"Compellingly complex…Expands the future of the immigrant novel even as it holds us in uneasy thrall to the past." – Gish Jen, New York Times Book ReviewCombining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Dazzle Patterns

    par Alison Watt ...
    Beginning the day of the devastating Halifax Explosion of 1917, Dazzle Patterns is an unforgettable story about resilience, the power of art, and the casualties of war. Halifax, 1917. Clare Holmes, a flaw checker at the local glassworks, is saving up for passage to England, to work for the Red Cross and be near her fiancé, Leo, who is fighting in France. But one normal Thursday morning, a deadly ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • After the Bloom

    A daughter’s search for her mother reveals her family’s past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Figgs

    par Ali Bryan ...
    Meet the Figgs. June, the family’s matriarch, looks forward to a quiet retirement – if only she can get her three adult children to finally, finally, move out of the house. But her dreams are shattered when her son Derek unexpectedly becomes a single father. Now there’s a newborn baby at home, and Derek’s older siblings are showing no sign of going anywhere either. In the midst of the chaos, June ... En savoir plus

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  • Gone to Pot

    par Jennifer Craig ...
    After losing her job and learning she might also lose her house because of a bad investment, Jess, a fiercely independent and hilariously wry BC grandma, resorts to growing pot in her basement to make ends meet. She then has to juggle her public life as a grandmother and member of the town’s senior women’s group – The Company of Crones – with her secret life as a pot grower. The unusual characters ... En savoir plus

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  • Under the Hawthorn Tree

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    par Ai Mi ...
    Collections series Anansi Book Club Editions
    Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and her mother, a former teacher branded as a "capitalist," is now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two younger siblings.When ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Yellow Birds

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    par Kevin Powers ...
    Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss.In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound ... En savoir plus

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  • Blue Mercy

    A Heartbreaking, Page-Turning Irish Family Drama

    par Orna Ross ...
    A literary family drama with patricide at its heart.When Mercy Mulcahy was 40 years old, she was accused of killing her elderly and tyrannical father. Now, at the end of her life, she has completed a book about what really happened on that fateful night of Christmas Eve, 1989.The tragic and beautiful Mercy has devoted her life to protecting Star from her grandfather. His behavior so blighted her ... En savoir plus

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