Après Soudain le Minotaure (Prix Anne-Hébert 2003), Marie Hélène Poitras livre douze histoires mettant en scène des personnages au bord de la désillusion, tous à la recherche d’une sorte de grâce, que seuls les plus chanceux atteignent...
Short Stories
- Author:Poitras, Marie-HélèneSummary:
- Author:Fonseca, Aleilton, Varin, Claire, Forget, DanielleSummary:
Un regard moqueur sur le quotidien des couples … Quiproquo, jalousies, tabous, propos machistes, ironie sur le monde savant, sans oublier l’importance du soccer… Un savoureux mélange à déguster en 26 petits récits. La femme de rêve est...
- Author:Buck, WilfredSummary:
Kitcikisik / Great Sky: Stories That Fill the Night Sky, is a Cree perspective on stars and constellations. For millennia, humans have stared into the night sky and wondered. Every culture on the face of Nikawiy Aski, Mother Earth, have...
- Author:Simpson, Leanne BetasamosakeSummary:
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg...
- Author:Baggio, AllisonSummary:
An unflinching look at the human body and the ways it defines, fails, and frees us
Building on themes introduced in her novel Girl in Shades, Allison Baggio explores the connection between the physical and...
- Author:Bezmozgis, DavidSummary:
In these deeply-felt, slyly humorous stories, David Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts.
- Author:RANKIN, IanSummary:
Over the years, Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories. Published in crime magazines, composed for events, broadcast on radio, they all share the best qualities of his popular novels.
- Author:Fiorentino, Jon PaulSummary:
ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015. Finalist, Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Winner, National Magazine Award, Silver Medal for Humour, for the story "It Seems Like Sex is a Weird Thing That Used to Happen to Me," from I'm Not Scared of You...
- Author:GARNER, HughSummary:
The conversion of Willie Heaps, The father, A couple of quiet young guys, Lucy, The yellow sweater, Make mine vanilla, Our neighbors the nuns, The expatriates, Red racer, Tea with Miss Mayberry, A visit with Robert, No more songs about...
- Author:Priest, RobertSummary:
Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories, lush love letters, re-visionary fairy tales, predictions,strange new games, dream transcripts, and a complete handbook of absurdist instructions,...
- Author:Thammavongsa, SouvankhamSummary:
In her stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong. An ex-boxer...
- Author:De Mariaffi, ElisabethSummary:
*2013 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE LONGLIST* A sharply original debut collection, How To Get Along With Women showcases Elisabeth de Mariaffi's keen eye and inventive voice. Infused with a close and present danger, these stories tighten...
- Author:ROBERTS, Charles G. D.Summary:
These 14 short stories about animals are superb examples of Roberts smooth storytelling style. Knows as the Father of Canadian Poetry, he loved to also write in prose about the wilderness and the personalities of the animals to be found...
- Author:Windley, CarolSummary:
This much-anticipated second collection of short stories by Carol Windley captures the shimmering, mutable light of the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Vancouver Island, where a diverse and unforgettable group of characters confront sorrows...
- Author:Wang, Xuan JulianaSummary:
NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY NYLON, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, THE MILLIONS AND LITHUB "Artful, funny, generous and empathetic Xuan Julian Wang is a radiant new talent." -LAUREN GROFF. The twelve stories in...
- Author:Lee, Yoon Ha.Summary:
The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit. An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon ... A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent ... A...
- Author:CLARK, GregorySummary:
Known throughout Canada as a reporter, feature writer and story-teller, Gregory Clark is beloved by a multitude of readers, many of whom have followed his writing career with delight for more than forty years.
- Author:VariousSummary:
People from the bush pay tribute to their dogs for the extraordinary role they play in Australian rural life.
- Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:
A compelling collection of iconic ghost stories from all across Canada. Time and place are infused with ghosts and hauntings. From coast to coast to coast, Canada's provinces and territories teem with the supernatural-phantoms...
- Author:Witt, BrandonSummary:
On September 1, 2011, TJ Klune wrote, "...it's not about the ending, it's about the journey..." in a review of Eric Arvin's Woke Up in a Strange Place. With those words, two men began a journey of love and invited us to ride along. TJ...