"In any skin purple is a heavy tone that penetrates to the core." Paulo da Costa's stories get under your skin, bruise your consciousness with their exploration of the forces that hold us together, not always benignly,...
Short stories, Canadian
- Auteur:Da Costa, PauloSommaire:
- Auteur:Whitson, AudreySommaire:
At the heart of every story in Audrey Whitson’s collection is a character seeking personal purpose amongst the deep mysteries of self, and a wholeness amid the fractious nature of life. Whitson’s evocative narration guides us...
- Auteur:Simpson, LeanneSommaire:
The Gift Is in the Making retells previously published Anishinaabeg stories, bringing to life Anishinaabeg values and teachings to a new generation. Readers are immersed in a world where all genders are respected, the tiniest being has...
- Auteur:Gudgeon, ChristopherSommaire:
In these sixteen stories, Christopher Gudgeon, bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Song of Kosovo, takes a heartbreaking and hilarious look into the lives, loves, sexual obsessions and delusions that inform a grand cast of...
- Auteur:Willis, DeborahSommaire:
The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealer’s girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A...
- Auteur:Zierer, TitaSommaire:
Short stories of Greek newcomers to Toronto during the 1960s, '70s and '80s. Stories that offer insight into what it means to be a Greek Canadian, coming from a land of close-knit family and traditions, to one colder in climate and...
- Auteur:Wilson, CarlSommaire:
Thirteen short stories inspired by Broken Social Scene’s groundbreaking album, You Forgot It In People. With a foreword by Carl Wilson, author of Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. In celebration of both...
- Auteur:Bump, Gabriel, Chang-Eppig, Rita, Cuti, Vanessa, Duque, Jenzo, Hobson, Brandon, Kochai, Jamil Jan, Krauss, Nicole, Means, David, Murray, Yxta Maya, Osunde, Eloghosa, Pek, Jane, Peyton, Tracey Rose, Romanosky, Christa, Saunders, George, Sigers, Shanteka, Soileau, Stephanie, Vijay, Madhuri, Washington, Bryan, Wilson, Kevin, Zhang, C PamSommaire:
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing...
- Auteur:Hodgins, JackSommaire:
With The Barclay Family Theatre, his second collection of short stories, Jack Hodgins introduces us to a cast of characters who transform the everyday world of Vancouver Island into a wondrous world of human warmth and comic energy....
- Auteur:Fisher, Erin FrancesSommaire:
In settings that range from the old American West to pre-revolutionary France, from a present-day dig site in the high tablelands of South America to deep space, That Tiny Life is a wide-ranging and utterly original collection of short...
- Auteur:Young, CleaSommaire:
In Teardown, Clea Young navigates the whitewater of relationships - familial and romantic, between friends new and old. Her stories seize on instances that, at the outset, appear benign - a woman encountering an old boyfriend on a BC...
- Auteur:Grisenthwaite, G. A.Sommaire:
Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be...
- Auteur:Anand, AnitaSommaire:
Swing in the House paints an utterly contemporary portrait of Canadian families in their most private moments. Anand pulls back the curtains to reveal the unspoken complexities within the modern home, from sibling rivalries to...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Surrey Stories connect is a time-capsule: a snapshot of Surrey in the fall of 2016. The stories here were written and created on three separate afternoons at three different locations: Cloverdale, Strawberry Hill, and Historic Stewart...
- Auteur:Wyatt, RachelSommaire:
A collection showcasing the trademark piercing insight and sardonic humour of one of Canada's true masters of the short story.
A woman carries a placard bearing the question "Are you content to be nothing?" as she conducts her...
- Auteur:Hage, RawiSommaire:
From the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro's Game , Cockroach , Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society , here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories. In Montreal, a photographer's unexpected encounter...
- Auteur:Atwood, MargaretSommaire:
A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her...
- Auteur:Hodgins, JackSommaire:
Well crafted short stories in the classic style of Mansfield & Lawrence. Concerns ordinary people and their inner lives.
- Auteur:Hodgins, JackSommaire:
Jack Hodgins‘ first book, published originally in 1976, is once again in print — in a new edition. Winner of the Eaton's Book Prize and nominated for the Governor General's Award, Spit Delaney's Island, a collection of short stories,...
- Auteur:Kovalyova, IrinaSommaire:
The stories in Specimen are a unique exploration of science and the human heart; the place where physical reality collides with our spiritual and emotional lives. In “The Blood Keeper,” a young academic travels to North Korea to work on...