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Baldwin, Styron, And Me

by Mélikah Abdelmoumen

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 An unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s guest house. They wrote during the day, then spent long evenings confiding in each other and talking about race and identity in America. During one of those memorable evenings, Baldwin is said to have convinced Styron to write, in the first person, the story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner near Styron’s own Southern birthplace. Styron followed his friend’s advice, and The Confessions of Nat Turner was published to critical acclaim, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1968—also creating outrage in part of the African American community.More than sixty years later, the debates and controversy around cultural appropriation, identity, and the rights and responsibilities of the writer still resonate. In Baldwin, Styron, and Me, Mélikah Abdelmoumen considers Baldwin and Styron’s surprising yet vital friendship from her standpoint as a racialized woman, born in Canada to a Tunisian father and Québécois mother, and torn by the often unidimensional versions of her own identity put forth by today’s politics, media, and society. Considering questions of identity, race, equity, and censorship, and, especially, the means by which public debate around these topics is increasingly radicalized, Abdelmoumen works to create a space where the answers are found by first learning how to listen—even in disagreement.
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Utopian Generation

by Pepetela

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 A seminal novel of African decolonization available for the first time in English translation. Lisbon 1961. Aware that the secret police are watching them, four young Angolans discuss their plans for a utopian homeland free from Portuguese rule. When war breaks out, they flee to France and must decide whether they will return home to join the fight. Two remain in exile and two return to Angola to become guerilla fighters, barely escaping capture over the course of the brutal fourteen-year war. Reunited in the capital of Luanda, the old friends face independence with their confidence shaken and struggle to build a new society free of the corruption and violence of colonial rule.Pepetela, a former revolutionary guerilla fighter and Angolan government minister, is the author of more than twenty novels that have won prizes in Africa, Europe, and South America. The Utopian Generation is widely considered in the Portuguese-speaking world an essential novel of African decolonization—and is now available in English translation for the first time.
Standing Heavy

by Gauz'

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 Winner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize • Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize • One of The Walrus'' Best Fall Books of 2023A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris. All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins to a Sephora on the Champs-Élysées, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum find their way as undocumented workers amidst political infighting and the ever-changing landscape of immigration policy. Fast-paced and funny, poignant and sharply satirical, Standing Heavy is a searing deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption and an unforgettable account of everything that passes under the security guards’ all-seeing eyes.
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Future

by Catherine Leroux

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 Winner of Canada Reads 2024 • Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • One of Tor.com''s Can''t Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews'' Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 • A CBC Books Bestselling Canadian Book of the WeekIn an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own kingdom in the trees. In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance.When a strange intuition sends Gloria into the woods of Parc Rouge, where the city’s orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society, she can’t imagine the strength she will find. A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future, The Future is a lyrical testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love—together.
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Hollow Beast

by Christophe Bernard

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 Winner of the 2025 French-American Translation Prize in Fiction • Finalist for the 2024 Governor General''s Literary Award in Translation • A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring TitleDon Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge.1911. A hockey game in Quebec''s Gaspé Peninsula. With the score tied two-two in overtime, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck directly into Monti Bouge''s mouth. When Pictou''s momentum carries them both across the goal line in a spray of shattered teeth, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts—and Monti''s ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls across three generations, one hundred years, and dozens of dastardly deeds. Fuelled by a bottomless supply of Yukon, the high-proof hooch that may or may not cause the hallucinatory sightings of a technicolor beast that haunts not just Monti but his descendants, it''s up to Monti''s grandson François—and his floundering doctoral dissertation—to make sense of the vendetta that''s shaped the destiny of their town and everyone in it. Brilliantly translated into slapstick English by Lazer Lederhendler, The Hollow Beast introduces Christophe Bernard as a master of epic comedy.
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By The Book - Stories And Pictures

by Diane Schoemperlen

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 The strangest sentences and illustrations from 19th-century encyclopedias, etiquette books, and travel guides, snipped into stories and full-page colour collages.
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If You Hear Me

by Pascale Quiviger

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 A family tries to reach a comatose man in this lyrical exploration of love, grief, and the nature of consciousness.
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Black Bread

by Emili Teixidor

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 The classic Catalonian novel of the Spanish Civil War, and an Academy Award-nominated Foreign Language film.
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Let The Empire Down

by Alexandra Oliver

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 Larger-than-life lyrics, rich in wit and tinged with woe, examine what it means to alternately own and defy one's past.
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Against Amazon - And Other Essays

by Jorge Carrin

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 A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letterâ€"and, most urgently, a manifesto.
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Country Of Too

by Rodrigo Rey Rosa

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 A Crime Reads Best International Crime Fiction of 2023 • One of Crime Reads most anticipated LatinX Horror and Crime Fiction of 2023 This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet.Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector and gang enforcer, has never had the chance to discern between right and wrong, until he’s assigned the murder of Polo, a prominent human rights activist—and his friend. When his conscience gives him pause and his patrón catches on, a remote Mayan community offers the Cobra a potential refuge, but the people there are up against predatory mining companies. With danger encroaching, the Cobra is forced to confront his violent past and make a decision about what he’s willing to risk in the future, and who it will be for.Following the Cobra, Polo, a faction of drug-dealing oligarchs, and Jacobo, a child caught in the crosshairs, Rey Rosa maps an extensive web of corruption upheld by decades of political oppression. A scathing indictment of exploitation in all its forms, The Country of Toó is a gripping account of what it means to consider societal change under the constant threat of violence.
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The Music Game

by Stéfanie Clermont

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 From French Ontario to the anarchist camps of California, three young women come of age in a tumultuous 21st century.
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Sea Loves Me - Selected Stories

by Mia Couto

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 New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize.
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You Will Love What You Have Killed

by Kevin Lambert

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 Reveling in its own perversity, this horror tale accuses suburban Quebec of abusing and murdering its childrenâ€"then takes revenge.
World At My Back

by Thomas Melle

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 "Books written out of great emotional distress are ... rarely great literature. Thomas Melle''s [The World at My Back] is great literature because he pulls it off without a single false note." —Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio)Longlisted for the 2024 National Translation Award in Prose • A Finalist for the German Book Prize • Translated into Eighteen Languages Addicted to culture, author Thomas Melle has built up an impressive personal library. His heart is in these books, and he loves to feel them at his back, their promise and challenge, as he writes. But in the middle of a violent dissociative episode, when they become ballast to his increasingly manic self, he disperses almost overnight what had taken decades to gather. Nor is this all he loses: descending further into an incomprehensible madness, he loses friendships and his career as a novelist and celebrated playwright, but the most savage cruelty is that he no longer either knows or understands himself.Vulnerable and claustrophobic, shattering and profoundly moving, Thomas Melle’s The World at My Back is a book dedicated to the impossibility of reclaiming what has been lost, its lines both a prayer and reminder that, on the other side of madness, other possibilities await.
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Sea Loves Me - Selected Stories

by Mia Couto

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 New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize.
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Music Game

by Stéfanie Clermont

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 From French Ontario to the anarchist camps of California, three young women come of age in a tumultuous 21st century.
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You Will Love What You Have Killed

by Kevin Lambert

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 Faldistoire’s grandfather thinks he’s a ghost. Sylvie’s mother reads tarot and summons stormclouds to mete her witch’s justice. Behind his Dad of the Year demeanour, Sébastien’s father hides dark designs. It’s Croustine’s grandfather who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, but it’s his father, the cannily-named Kevin Lambert, who always seems to be nearby when tragedy strikes, and in the cemetery, under the baleful eyes of toads, small graves are dug one after the other: Chicoutimi, Quebec, is a dangerous place for children. But these young victims of rape, arbitrary violence, and senseless murder keep coming back from the dead. They return to school, explore their sexualities, keep tabs on grown-up sins—and plot their apocalyptic retribution. Surreal and darkly comic, this debut novel by Kevin Lambert, one of the most celebrated and controversial writers to come out of Quebec in recent memory, takes the adult world to task—and then takes revenge.
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Against Amazon - And Other Essays

by Jorge Carrión

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 A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letterâ€"and, most urgently, a manifesto.
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Mostarghia

by Maya Ombasic

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 A moving account of the experience of exile and the complex relationship between a daughter and her larger-than-life father.
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Dead Heat

by Benedek Totth

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 Trainspotting meets Friday Night Lights meets Cormac McCarthyâ€"in a swimming pool.
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If You Hear Me

by Pascale Quiviger

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 A family tries to reach a comatose man in this lyrical exploration of love, grief, and the nature of consciousness.
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Dishwasher

by Stéphane Larue

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 Hyperrealist 21st century bildungsroman about a dishwasher fighting a gambling addiction. Anthony Bourdain meets Dostoyevsky, with metalhead appeal.
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Oscar

by Mauricio Segura

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 A magical realist take on the life of legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, the immigrant experience, and the alchemy of music in 1950s.
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