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The
Scotiabank Giller Prize Profiles
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Originally produced for broadcast
for Jack Rabinovitch’s prestigious annual (now Scotiabank)
Giller Prize gala, the collection includes interviews with high
profile authors reading their own works, some with dramatic
adaptation. They are now distributed by BookShorts in both Beta
and DVD formats .Visit
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Vincent Lam, 2006 Winner
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures Doubleday
Canada
Of the winning book, the jury, comprised of The Right Honourable
Adrienne Clarkson and distinguished Canadian authors Alice
Munro and Michael Winter, remarked: This series of inter-linked
stories is a profound and meaningful glimpse into a world
which seems on the surface to be purely medical, but leads
us into the metaphorical. The characters and the situations
are unexpectedly bound together and make us, as readers, not
just witnesses to, but participants in, the world that has
been created for us.
Purchase
on Amazon.ca
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Rawi Hage
De Niro's Game (House of Anansi
Press) tells the tale of two young men trying to survive
in the carnage of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon. Best friends
since childhood, Bassam and George are faced with two choices
for survival; to leave their home and take a chance in a
foreign city, or join the corrupt militia and gain a foothold
in war-torn Beirut.
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The Perfect Circle
by Pascale Quiviger, with translation
by Sheila Fischman (Cormorant) is Quiviger's second novel.
In it, Marianne meets and falls madly in love with Marco,
while she is vacationing in Italy. Marianne, upon returning
home to Montreal, cannot get Marco out of her head. She
realizes that he is her one true love. She returns to Italy
indefinitely to pursue her passion.
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Gaétan Soucy
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (Anansi)
is the novel that established Soucy as a powerful new literary
force in Quebec. This is the story of lives so ordinary,
they verge on the grotesque, coming alive in characters
like the clubfooted schoolteacher, a demonic fire chief,
a demented lumberjack, a pianist and a mortician.
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Carol Windley
Home Schooling (Cormorant) includes seven
short stories are framed against the rural landscape of
Vancouver Island and the cities of the Pacific Northwest.
The memories and dreams of characters are examined, revealing
them in full as diverse and unforgettable individuals confronting
their own sorrows and triumphs.
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Books
From The Giller Library on Chapters Indigo
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