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A flash fiction novel, The Sea-Wave details the aftermath of the kidnapping by an elderly...
In this novel in verse, a beautiful and naive Columbia Columbus wanders through the world...
Set in New York, Tehran, Port au Prince and Tegucigalpa, Octopus Intelligence tells the story...
Immortal Water is an extraordinary tale of the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon and...
A novel first published in French in 1982, Picture Theory demonstrates Nicole Brossard's fiction théorique...
The Shining Fragments is a family saga about the Irish in Canada
that explores the ramifications of abandonment, obsession, love, memory, and visionary power. Spanning the years 1882-1904, it follows Joseph Conlon from his early childhood in Ulster to his
experiences of youth and adulthood as an immigrant. Left behind as a small boy on a Toronto train-station platform like so much forgotten luggage, Joseph grows up in a city bleak with bigotry.
He discovers that he has artistic talent and becomes a designer of
stained-glass windows. He is haunted by the spirit of his unborn sister, Annie, and the powerful and often conflicting...
"The boy waited alone on a cold bench beneath a sign's gold letters. People checked the posters nailed on wood, dragged cases across cobble, and called to one another, waving. The day went down; still the boy sat. He'd stopped speaking hours ago.
The boy's trousers were damp with urine, his... "
