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Fiction: Novels

All That Matters

By Wayson Choy

All That Matters is Wayson Choy’s follow-up to his acclaimed first novel, The Jade Peony; both novels concern the Chens, a family caught up in the Chinese diaspora of the 1930s and ’40s.The Jade Peony ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wild Dogs

By Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys’ fourth novel, Wild Dogs, sure to be a hit with canine lovers everywhere, launches with a bold and poetic narrative voice. It is Alice, describing the circumstances of six strangers who’ve bonded over ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Memory Artists

By Jeffrey Moore

Jeffrey Moore’s second novel has all the ingredients of an entertaining, seductive mystery. Our naïve hero, Noel, equally blessed and plagued by synaesthesia, a condition that causes voices to appear as colours and shapes and ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Naked Island

By Bryna Wasserman

This debut novel from Toronto’s Bryna Wasserman is a strange and beguiling tale that showcases considerable ambition and emerging talent. The Naked Island follows Rachel Gold, a young Jewish woman, on a trip around the ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What Casanova Told Me

By Susan Swan

British writer George MacDonald Fraser is famous for his antihero Flashman, a womanizing, cowardly cad who stumbles through some of the most important historical events of the 18th and 19th centuries, concerned only with saving ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels