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Pure Fiction — More Fiction
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Still want more fiction? Check below for novels sure to inspire and engage from Canada and around the world...
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In the follow-up to her bestselling debut, Zadie Smith tells the story of autograph hawker Alex-Li Tandem. Through London and then New York, Alex searches for the only autograph that ever mattered to him, resisting the mystical lure of Kabbalah and Zen, and avoiding all collectors, con-men, interfering Rabbis and Bonsai dealers who would put themselves in his path. Pushing against the tide of his generation, Alex-Li is on his way to finding enlightenment, otherwise known as some part of himself that cannot be signed, celebrated or sold. Click here to read more.
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Set against the glorious backdrops of Renaissance Rome, Florence, Genoa and Naples, inhabited by historical characters such as Galileo and Cosimo de' Medici, and filled with rich details about life as a 17th-century painter, The Passion of Artemisia is an inspiring story about one woman's lifelong struggle to reconcile career and family, passion and genius. Read more here. |
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Logan Mountstuart, a novelist, comes to know both great acclaim and terrible neglect. Born in 1906, Logan relates his life to us through the medium of his private journals. We travel from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Oxford, through continental Europe and North America. Over the course of his unruly and rambunctious life we meet Logan's wives, children, friends, colleagues, lovers, rivals and enemies. Click here for more.
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When the daughter of an eminent clergyman discovers in middle age that her elderly father has abused young boys, disbelief turns to confusion as she wrestles with a legacy of lies, silence and her own embattled conscience. Updated to follow Milicent after her father's death, Kogawa's critically acclaimed The Rain Ascends is a moving novel from one of Canada's best-loved writers. Click here for more. |
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In Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, readers are transported to the vibrant art scene of late 19th-century Paris. A richly textured portrait of the relationship between Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia, and narrated by the latter, the novel opens a fascinating window into the extraordinary age in which the sisters lived. Read more here.
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