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Fiction: Novels

Madame Zee

By Pearl Luke

The real-life story of the mysterious Madame Zee receives an intriguing treatment in this novel by Pearl Luke. What is curious is that the fictionalized details are almost more compelling than the actual facts, which ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

jPod

By Douglas Coupland

Like its 1995 predecessor, Microserfs, Douglas Coupland’s latest foray into the annals of extreme contemporaneousness delves into the world of a group of young programmers, this time substituting a Vancouver-based video-game design company for Microsoft. ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Widdershins

By Charles de Lint

With Widdershins, Ottawa writer Charles de Lint returns to the fictional city of Newford for what may be a world-altering showdown between the ancient North American immortals and spirits – based on First Nations tradition ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Certainty

By Madeleine Thien

As I read Madeleine Thien’s first novel, I was reminded time and again of Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces, another work set largely in Canada but taking as its canvas the memories and unresolved legacies of ... Read More »

June 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels