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Fiction: Novels

Anomaly

By Anne Fleming

Good novels about Toronto are hard to come by. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje is one, Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye is another. Anne Fleming’s publishers would like to promote this first ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midnight Sun

By Lawrence Osgood

It is obvious from reading Lawrence Osgood’s Midnight Sun that the author has an abiding, deep love for the Arctic and its Inuit inhabitants. To his credit, his love is neither blind nor paternalistic, as ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa

Ghosts, revenge, hermaphrodites, and quests across the deserts and mountains of western China – Lydia Kwa’s novel The Walking Boy has the elements of one of those literally fantastic Asian action films. But her story ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Map of Glass

By Jane Urquhart

On a winter’s night a man stumbles toward a great frozen lake, confused and disoriented. Months later his body, arms outstretched as if in supplication or an embrace, washes up in the retreating ice at ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels