Books set in Canada (186)


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Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
LONGLIST 2008 - IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the po... continue

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Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an ... continue

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Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova EN

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Following Grudova's critically acclaimed collection The Doll's Alphabet, this surreal, discomforting debut novel charts the fates of a ragtag group of cinema workers who are spat out by corporate takeover.

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Cómo pronunciar cuchillo by Souvankham Thammavongsa ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Thailand flag Thailand
Description:
Si hay algo que caracteriza a los personajes de estos relatos es la firmeza y la convicción con las que se aferran a la vida. De una u otra manera, todos están atravesados por la inmigración y sus derivas más crueles, aunque también por momentos luminosas. Un boxeador fracasado termina esculpiendo uñas en el negocio de su hermana; una niña esconde las comunicaciones del colegio para no poner en evidencia que sus padres desconocen la cultura y el idioma del país al que acaban de mudarse; dos pequeños hermanos esperan con ansias que llegue esa única noche al año en la que recorren el barrio disf... continue

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Consider Me : A Playing for Keeps Hockey Romance by Becka Mack EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
In the sizzling hockey romance that has taken TikTok by storm, the ultimate player turns romantic to charm the woman he is desperate to win over. "Endlessly sexy and funny. Consider Me will have you fanning yourself and googling your closest hockey team hangout." --Hannah Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Wildfire and Icebreaker The first book in the globally popular Playing for Keeps series. For a shot at love, he'll do whatever it takes... Carter Beckett is the NHL's best player--both on and off the ice. His career is at its peak, his friends are performing better than ever, and th... continue

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Crow by Amy Spurway EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
This Crow will ruffle a few feathers. When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable -- and inoperable -- brain tumours, she abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother Effie's scruffy trailer in rural Cape Breton. Back home, she's known as Crow, and everybody suspects that her family is cursed. With her future all but sealed, Crow decides to go down in a blaze of unforgettable glory by writing a memoir that will raise eyebrows and drop jaws. She'll dig up "the dirt" on her family tree, including the supposed curse, and uncover the truth about her mys... continue


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Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily's previously stateless father wanted to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by Swee Hua's disappearance, Lily's family is stubbornly s... continue

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De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage EN

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Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
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In this explosive, captivating portrait of life in a war zone, two young men must choose their futures: to stay in the war-torn Beirut and consolidate power through crime, or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known.

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Dear Life by Alice Munro EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
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**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.