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Set in contemporary Montreal, Ondine’s Curse follows the attempts of Robert Strasser, a television documentary producer, to film the life of Dr. Werther Acheson, the German director of a controversial psychiatric institute. In the course of his journey through Acheson’s murky past, Strasser meets Ondine, one of the institute’s patients, and soon finds himself increasingly fascinated by the haunted young woman. It is Ondine who is at the heart of this powerful probe of the human psyche. A...
| Автор | Steven Manners |
Victoria Morgan, violin virtuoso extraordinaire, and her devoted piano accompanist are on yet another European tour currently stopping in Vienna. While playing to a full house, Tory leaves the stage and disappears in the middle of this important concert, leaving behind a puzzled (and angry) audience. Why would a seasoned professional so intent on maintaining her well-established career do something so damaging? Especially after some very negative reviews from local press? Tory’s decision to...
| Автор | Rick Blechta |
Dreams vanish in most of the masterful stories that make up Norma Harrs's new collection. A young Irish girl falls in love with an older married professor and has her first date with heartache; a middle-aged woman attends her niece's wedding and drunkenly surveys the wreck of her own life and love affairs; a young woman admires her kind and beautiful neighbour so much that she is almost drawn into a not so innocent profession … Adversity, sometimes disaster, befalls Norma Harrs's...
| Автор | Norma Harrs |
Elas kord naine, kellel oli kolm tütart. Kahel neist ei õnnestunud miski, kõik, mis nad ette võtsid, läks luhta. Aga noorim, kelle nimi oli Nella, oli sündinud õnnetähe all
| Автор | Itaalia muinasjutt |
Sheila Peters makes her impressive fiction debut with a collection of loosely linked stories whose characters, whether they live in the Queen Charlotte Islands or the Prairies, are ordinary men and women who have seemingly everyday experiences that glimmer with the extraordinary. Her spare, stripped-down prose, leavened with sly humour and a gift for poetic resonance, reminds one of the work of Alice Munro or Sandra Birdsell. Peters creates people who often feel out of sync with the spiritual,...
| Автор | Sheila Peters Annie |
Cyril Dabydeen’s new collection of stories, North of the Equator , looks at the polarities of tropical and temperate places. Acclaimed novelist Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners) says, "Dabydeen is in the vanguard of contemporary short-story writers, shuttling with equal and consummate skill from rural Guyana to metropolitan Canada." Dabydeen’s characters occupy the spaces in between. They live in limbo, stretched between two worlds: one, an adopted home in Canada; the other, a...
| Автор | Cyril Dabydeen |
In 1993, a group of five Kingston women–T. Anne Archer, Mary Cavanagh, Elizabeth Greene, Tara Kainer, Janice Kirk–began to compile ananthology about Canada at the point where one millennium becomes another. As the newly-formed Foxglove Collective, they solicited manuscripts that reflected origins (how the past shapes the present), life at the end of this century, and projections past the year 2000. They envisioned a book that wove together established, emerging, and previously unpublished voices...
| Автор | Foxglove Collective |
Joan Skogan’s marvelously poetic new novel draws upon her own years adrift on the sea as a wanderer and wonderer to tell the story of Rose Bachmann, a woman at mid-tide in a life awash in the debris of a mysterious marriage, in myths both long known and newly invented and in the magical coastline of the NOrth Pacific. Rose finds herself at rest in the rock form of a petroglyph entitled The One Who Fell From Heaven , near Prince Rupert, B.C. and there she imagines, in a brilliant song to her...
| Автор | Joan Skogan |
Satiiriline kollaazromaan suvalistest Eestis elavatest inimestest, nende elust, tegemistest ja arusaamadest koroonaviiruse ajal. Kuna tegemist on fiktsiooniga, siis kõik arvatavad kokkusattumused ja võimalikud äratundmisrõõmud leiavad aset vaid lugeja peas. Romaanis toodud seisukohad ja arusaamad ei pruugi kokku langeda autori omadega.
| Автор | Jüri V. Grauberg |
Andrus Kivirähki humoorikas jutukogu, mis koosneb 14 loost. Suurem osa lugusid jutustab ümber tuntud muinasjutte, lisades humoorika kiiksu ja küllaldaselt fantaasiat. Loeb Jan Uuspõld.
| Автор | Andrus Kivirähk |
Short-listed for the 2001 Rogers Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize and the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Prize Lilith Boot’s life changes forever the night she drowns the flowers in her parents’ garden. Frightened by their daughter’s odd behaviour, and her recent pronouncements of psychic visions, the Boots send Lilith to a Vancouver mental hospital. It is there that she becomes pregnant, giving birth after her discharge. Years later, Lilith uses her visions to help Toronto police...
| Автор | Elizabeth Mills Ruth |
Vikkan Lantry, a pianist with more talent than ambition, is content with his job at an upscale cocktail lounge until a request from reclusive soprano, Ulrike Vogel, draws him grudgingly back into the world of classical music. Ulrike’s mysterious past, and her friendship with elderly Viennese piano teacher, Dieter Mann, usher Vikkan into an intrigue that begins in the nineteenth century with an unknown song cycle composed by Robert Schumann, and ends in the present-day with a grisly double...
| Автор | Peter Schaffter |
Dave Bolden’s life feels like it’s on repeat. He works his eight hours at a boutique accounting firm, goes home, gets drunk and wakes up the next day to go back to work with a hangover. But his life changes when an eighteen-wheel truck crashes through the front windows of his workplace, killing everyone except him. Shortly after the accident, he is approached by an eccentric businessman, Mr. Thorrin, who interprets Dave’s survival as luck and sets out to exploit what he perceives as a gift. Mr....
| Автор | Scott William Carter |
Elas kord naine, kes soovis endale kogu südamest lapsukest, kuid ei teadnud, kuidas teda leida. Nii läks ta vana nõia juurde ja ütles: „Minu südamesooviks on saada laps. Palun ütle mulle, mida peaksin tegema, et see juhtuks?“
| Автор | Ганс Андерсен |
Külmal talveajal hulkunud üks äranälginud rebane mööda metsa ja otsinud endale toitu. Viimaks olnud rebasel mets risti ja põiki läbi käidud, aga siiski polnud talle midagi silma hakanud, mida oleks võinud suhu panna. Kogemata kombel tulnud rebane ühe tee äärde. Seal näinud ta eemalt üht meest kalakoormaga tulemas. Rebasel kohe hea nõu peetud.
| Автор | Eesti muinasjutt |
"What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it." Mark Twain’s «tale» became his first historical novel, <i>The Prince and the Pauper,</i> published in 1881. Intricately plotted, it was intended to have the feel of history even though it was only the stuff of legend. In sixteenth-century England, young Prince Edward (son of Henry VIII) and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks exactly like him, are suddenly forced to change places. The prince...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
The four stories that make up the <I>Mabinogi, </I>along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is...
| Автор | Группа авторов |