In Two-Man Tent, one of Canada's most celebrated writers, Robert Chafe, offers his long-awaited collection of short fiction. The individual stories are thematically linked by an interwoven, recurring tale of a long-distance...
Short stories, Canadian
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Auteur:Chafe, RobertSommaire: - Auteur:Novakovich, JosipSommaire:
In this latest short-story collection Josip Novakovich explores the shallow roots of emigration as he traverses North America from university post to writing residency. These stories take on an aura of memoir as they invite us into the...
- Auteur:Novakovich, JosipSommaire:
In this latest short-story collection Josip Novakovich explores the shallow roots of emigration as he traverses North America from university post to writing residency. These stunning stories showcase the author at his most intimate,...
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Auteur:Hogan, H. B.Sommaire:A bush party leads to self-immolation. A cab ride ends in warfare. A squirrel is eviscerated. A universally impossible dare is accepted and proves not to be fatal. The weird kid triumphs. The stories in H. B. Hogan's debut...
- Auteur:Westhead, JessicaSommaire:
A collection of stories that seeks to examine the dark side of ordinary people.
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Auteur:Ibrahim, DjamilaSommaire:Set in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S., Things Are Good Now examines the weight of the migrant experience on the human psyche. In these pages, women, men, and children who've crossed continents in search of a better...
- Auteur:Chong, CorinnaSommaire:
A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human. For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of...
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Auteur:Ward, DonaldSommaire:Donald Ward’s stories are written in a straight-ahead narrative style that offers conceptual and philosophical underpinnings. Despite this intentional layering, he maintains the kind of economy of description and simplicity of...
- Auteur:Coupland, DouglasSommaire:
The fourteen stories in this collection present the essence of Vancouver as captured by some of Canada's most famous writers, including Pauline Johnson, Douglas Coupland, Alice Munro, Timother Taylor, and Wayson Choy.
- Auteur:Farrant, M. A. C.Sommaire:
Broken into three sections, Farrant's work is a fusion of fragmented prose, probing questions and caustic satire. The result is both a meditation on absence and a commentary on the human penchant for complacency.
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Auteur:Bonny, Sandy MarieSommaire:The stories in Sandy Bonny’s collection take place in settings from the Arctic Circle to Alberta’s badlands, and from the waters of the Georgia Straight to the grasslands of the prairies, and the characters that we meet in these places...
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Auteur:Shah, Aparna KajiSommaire:The Scent of Mogra and Other Stories is a collection of four short stories about strong female characters dealing with difficult life-changing situations. The turmoil that they face is, often, the result of a social structure that...
- Auteur:Whitton, DavidSommaire:
Keen, intense, darkly comic, and accident-prone, the short fictions of David Whitton are full of sullen underdogs: his characters clean up real nice, but can’t help but unravel back to their original fallen and fascinating selves. Their...
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Auteur:Whitton, DavidSommaire:Keen, intense, darkly comic, and accident-prone, the short fictions of David Whitton are full of sullen underdogs: his characters clean up real nice, but can't help but unravel back to their original fallen and fascinating selves. Their...
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Auteur:Wangersky, RussellSommaire:As entertaining as they are insightful, the stories in The Path of Most Resistance are anchored by the concept of passive aggression in our everyday lives: ordinary people who are quietly, desperately, and indirectly trying to impose...
- Auteur:Senior, OliveSommaire:
The pain tree tells stories that speak to all aspects of Jamaican life.
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Auteur:Metcalf, JohnSommaire:In this, his first book of fiction since 'Adult Entertainment', a New York Times Notable Book of 1990, legendary Canadian writer and editor John Metcalf is back - in full comic force - with a linked collection of stories and novellas....
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Auteur:Heti, SheilaSommaire:Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, Sheila Heti’s completely original stories lead you to surprising places. This edition featuring nine new stories. A frog doles out sage advice to a plumber infatuated with a princess,...
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Auteur:Blaise, ClarkSommaire:An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, 'The Meagre Tarmac' explores the places where tradition, innovation, culture, and power meet with explosive force. It begins with Vivek Waldekar, who refused to attend his father's funeral because he...
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Auteur:Black, Lucy E. M.Sommaire:The stories in this collection are unifed by a sense of dislocation. In each of the pieces, there is an underlying element of disturbance and disharmony. Resolution threads its way through the narratives while the characters struggle to...
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