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In this novel from a Quebecois feminist writer, a shy sixteen-year-old falls in love with...
This fantastical novel opens with Pina, a young Sicilian woman, being seduced by the son...
In this novel in verse, a beautiful and naive Columbia Columbus wanders through the world...
A novel of loss and retrieval. The main protagonists are Agostina and Giulia, mother and...
The first novel by renowned Slovene publisher, politician, and TV personality Luka Novak is an...
In this classic love story featuring passion, jealousy and murder, and set in pre-World War...
Jacques Renaud's Le casse, translated here as Broke City, is, if nothing else, an important work in Quebecois literary history, as it was one of the first and certainly the most scandalous novel to have been written in "joual". It's not just a novel about a bunch of low-lifes scamming for a living, it was a conscious smack in the face of the Canadian establishment. Renaud wrote the book in joual because it was, he claimed, how he and his friends spoke. This was something of an affront to literary manners at the time, particularly as Renaud was not like...
