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This book moves with compelling energy from the forests of north-western Ontario to the capitals...
A novel first published in French in 1982, Picture Theory demonstrates Nicole Brossard's fiction théorique...
Meet Daniel Garneau, your average gay hockey player from small-town Ontario. After moving to Toronto...
From Black Hand criminals to stand-up cops, from innocent victims and ordinary people to schemers...
Daniel, a young French-Vietnamese man, lies dying in a Montreal hospital. Spurned by his family for contracting AIDS in Provincetown, Daniel spends his last months in despair. Only his cousin Mai stays by his side to record the darkest of family secrets. From French Indochina to present day North America, this novel follows three generations of a Vietnamese family as they endure their own folly and the whims of history.
"My cousin Daniel passed away 28 years ago. The premature death of a talented young man brought incredible guilt to the family. And no one suffered this loss more than my mother. My mother did not wail like Uncle Hai did at the funeral parlour. Yet her silence spoke louder... "
