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Elevator in Saigon
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CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668996
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Book*hug
From the author of Chinatown comes a personal and political, tragic and bitingly satirical, ethereal journey through Hanoi, Sài Gòn, Paris, Pyongyang, and Seoul. A Vietnamese woman living in Paris...
Blessed Curse, The
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781774151495
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Mawenzi House Publishers
The Blessed Curse is a savage satire about men in power in an unnamed country that could be Pakistan. Fearing loss of their sexual potency, a closed circle of men in power embark on fabulous journeys. The Blessed Curse gives us a metaphor for Pakistan?s bizarre predicament in the global political arena.
The Arena of Satire
Juvenal's Search for Rome
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194172
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Arena of Satire presents the satirist as flaneur traversing the streets of Rome in search of its authentic core-those distinctly Roman virtues that have disappeared amid the corruption of the age. What the vengeful, punishing satirist does to his victims, as Larmour shows, echoes what the Roman state did to outcasts and criminals in the arena of the Colosseum.
The Counting House
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608012534
Pub Date: November 2023
The Chief Investment Officer of a prestigious university sits at the center of modern finance: hundreds of hedge funds, venture capitalists, stock pickers, bond traders, and private equity managers...
Standing Heavy
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771966009
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Biblioasis
Winner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize • Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize • One of The Walrus' Best Fall Books of 2023 A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on...
Lump
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CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459751286
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
In a single day, Cat finds out that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably creepy. The culture of striving has caught up to her family — and Cat doesn’t handle it the way a middle-class mom is supposed to.
A Hostage
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339247
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
When Charlotte is kidnapped panic is only held at bay by a sardonic Inner Voice, which alternately consoles and condemns. When the Middle Eastern dictator Kassem questions the writer about why she had killed him off in her last book A Hero, he triggers a surreal month of captivity. While Kassem appears determined to explain every warlike action, Charlotte attempts to instil humanity in the dictator. Inner Voice?s incredulity at such hubris provides much-needed comic relief in an increasingly tense situation, as the unbearable loneliness unleashes a storm of unexpected sexual fantasies and complex feelings.
When the promised release date comes and goes, Charlotte embarks on a hunger strike, which ultimately brings about a joyful reunion with her family. However, home quickly disintegrates into another form of confinement, as Charlotte discovers that Kassem had used her for his propaganda, streaming their interactions live online. Media interest drives the introverted writer inward;...
Letters to Little Comrade
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781989496626
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Framed as an advice booklet, Letters to Little Comrade takes us on a dystopic journey that circles around Little Comrade’s attempts to find happiness and purpose in her life, whether by finding fulfilling work, finding love, by pleasing her parents or by leaving her country.
Goddess
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CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487011116
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
An entrancing novel about an exclusive wellness retreat on a remote Greek island hosted by a celebrity guru who is more than meets the eye.
In the City of Pigs
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CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781459749085
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Alexander Otkazov is a failed pianist trying to start a new life in journalism. But when he starts reporting on a mysterious group of avant-garde musicians, the story takes him into a shadowy world of obscure composers, megalomaniac artists, and real estate barons, where the lines between art, finance, and fraud blur and the stakes are existential.
Giambatista Viko; ou, Le viol du discours africain
An MLA Text Edition
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781603295819
Pub Date: March 2022
Georges Ngal's pathbreaking satire Giambatista Viko explores the vexed relations between metropolitan centers and peripheral former colonies through its titular antihero, an African professor...
Giambatista Viko; or, The Rape of African Discourse
An MLA Translation
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781603295840
Pub Date: March 2022
Georges Ngal's pathbreaking satire Giambatista Viko explores the vexed relations between metropolitan centers and peripheral former colonies through its titular antihero, an African professor...
The Swells
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CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781487009694
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
Natural Consequences
A Novel
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780826502339
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
A feminist, gender-swapping space farce from a paragon of speculative fiction
Seven Down
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CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459748576
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
The story of a failed assassination attempt is revealed through interview transcripts with its participants — all employees at a large hotel. Funny, absurd, and mysterious, it is at once puzzle, satire, and literary experiment.
Dumb-Show
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CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781927886564
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: ARP Books
?This is literature made from flesh, messy and bloody and exacting and haunting.? Heather and Geoffrey ? twenty-something siblings ? become entangled in separate power struggles...
Elevator in Saigon
CA$23.00
ISBN: 9781771668996
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Book*hug
Blessed Curse, The
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781774151495
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Mawenzi House Publishers
The Blessed Curse is a savage satire about men in power in an unnamed country that could be Pakistan. Fearing loss of their sexual potency, a closed circle of men in power embark on fabulous journeys. The Blessed Curse gives us a metaphor for Pakistan?s bizarre predicament in the global political arena.
The Arena of Satire
Juvenal's Search for Rome
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194172
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Counting House
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608012534
Pub Date: November 2023
Standing Heavy
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771966009
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Biblioasis
Lump
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459751286
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A Hostage
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339247
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
When Charlotte is kidnapped panic is only held at bay by a sardonic Inner Voice, which alternately consoles and condemns. When the Middle Eastern dictator Kassem questions the writer about why she had killed him off in her last book A Hero, he triggers a surreal month of captivity. While Kassem appears determined to explain every warlike action, Charlotte attempts to instil humanity in the dictator. Inner Voice?s incredulity at such hubris provides much-needed comic relief in an increasingly tense situation, as the unbearable loneliness unleashes a storm of unexpected sexual fantasies and complex feelings.
When the promised release date comes and goes, Charlotte embarks on a hunger strike, which ultimately brings about a joyful reunion with her family. However, home quickly disintegrates into another form of confinement, as Charlotte discovers that Kassem had used her for his propaganda, streaming their interactions live online. Media interest drives the introverted writer inward;...
Letters to Little Comrade
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781989496626
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Framed as an advice booklet, Letters to Little Comrade takes us on a dystopic journey that circles around Little Comrade’s attempts to find happiness and purpose in her life, whether by finding fulfilling work, finding love, by pleasing her parents or by leaving her country.
Goddess
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487011116
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
An entrancing novel about an exclusive wellness retreat on a remote Greek island hosted by a celebrity guru who is more than meets the eye.
In the City of Pigs
CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781459749085
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Giambatista Viko; ou, Le viol du discours africain
An MLA Text Edition
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781603295819
Pub Date: March 2022
Giambatista Viko; or, The Rape of African Discourse
An MLA Translation
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781603295840
Pub Date: March 2022
The Swells
CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781487009694
Pub Date: January 2022
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
Natural Consequences
A Novel
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780826502339
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
Seven Down
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459748576
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Dumb-Show
CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781927886564
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: ARP Books