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French journalist Marc Taragon is at the apex of his career in 2007. A tenacious...
A novel first published in French in 1982, Picture Theory demonstrates Nicole Brossard's fiction théorique...
Writer Jack Fingon realizes too late that his life of "intuition and attraction" has produced...
Chronicling the conflicts and misunderstandings between a father and his son as Italian immigrants in Montreal.
A young, mixed-race composer, raised without meaningful connections to his Chinese heritage and struggling with...
In post WWII Italy, Passero, the son of a winemaker killed by the Nazis, commits an impetuous act. He kidnaps a young orphaned girl and offers her up in exchange for his own freedom. His actions create a lifelong connection with her culminating in an adulterous affair in Toronto in the 1960s, while he is building a life with another woman. The union produces an illegitimate son named Ethan, who, in time, becomes an artist and inherits the vineyard once belonging to Passero's family. The vineyard, as the artist discovers, is a place where truth extends from fiction, a place...
"What do you think you are, Vincenzo? A sparrow? Is that what you think you are … a passero?"
