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Canada (romans), Auteurs canadiens (romans), Nouvelles
A collection of linked short stories inspired by the paintings of Alex Colville. Each character appears in at least two… of the stories, in a greater or lesser role. The most common link is a ghost who directly or indirectly "haunts" the book throughout. There is more than a hint of the uncanny in some of the stories, and a strong whiff of the gothic. At its lightest, this book is dark, reflecting the edgy, distrubing quality found in much of Alex Colville's work. The common theme is the vulnerability of the elder heart. Many of the characters are aged sixty and up. Inwardly, however, they are ageless--yearning for each other sexually and emotionally, falling in and out of love, forming new ties or rediscovering old ones. Not all characters are human - a dog, a horse, and an octopus play small but pivotal roles. Death is a constant, taking both peaceful and violent forms. Its presence renders the characters' lives and relationships all the more poignant for being ephemeral. 2018.
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Science-fiction, Littérature générale (romans)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEMargaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern… classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets. As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes. "The literary event of the year." —The Guardian "The international literary event of the season." —Globe and Mail "It’s terrifying and exhilarating." —Judges of the Booker Prize 2019
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Littérature générale (romans)
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom bestselling, award-winning author Michael Crummey comes a sweeping, heart-wrenching, deeply immersive novel about… a brother and sister alone in a small world.A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them.As they fight for their own survival through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested.This novel is richly imagined and compulsively readable, a riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching exploration of the bond between brother and sister. By turns electrifying and heartbreaking, it is a testament to the bounty and barbarity of the world, to the wonders and strangeness of our individual selves.
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Sensations (romans à)
Adam Foulds, the award-winning author of The Quickening Maze, pens a stunning and terrifying vision of the damage done between… a fan and a celebrity in Dream Sequence--where the borders between inner and outer life have been made porous in a world full of flickering screens large and small. Henry became famous starring in The Grange, a television drama beloved by mothers and wives, and whose fans speak about the characters as though they were real people . . . yet Henry dreams of escaping the small screen. An audition for a movie directed by a highly respected Spanish auteur holds the promise of a way forward. Whether holed up in his apartment eating monkish meals of rice and steamed vegetables or snorting cocaine at desert parties in Doha, Henry's awareness of his own image, of his relative place in the world, is acute and constant. But Henry has also--unwittingly--become an important part of the life of recently divorced Kristin. He appears repeatedly on the television in her beautiful, empty Philadelphia house, and her social media feeds bring news of his London home, his family. What Kristin wants is simply to get as close to him in real life as she has in her fandom.
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Canada (romans), Famille (récits), Littérature générale (romans), Amitié (récits)
"Evocative...traces [its] characters over long arcs of time and place with equal amounts grace and wit. Most revelatory is the… way that each [sister] fights to find her own life as an artist outside the expectations of others and the demands of a male-dominated world."--Vogue A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences. As they grow up, Lark excels at school and Robin becomes an extraordinary pianist. At seventeen, Lark flees to America to attend college, where she finds her calling in documentary films, and her sister soon joins her. Later, in New York City, they find themselves tested: Lark struggles with self-doubt, and Robin chafes against the demands of Juilliard. Under pressure, their bond grows strained and ultimately is broken, and their paths abruptly diverge. Years later, Lark's life is in tatters and Robin's is wilder than ever. As Lark tries to take charge of her destiny, she discovers that despite the difficulties of their relationship, there is only one person she can truly rely on: her sister. In this gripping, unforgettable novel about art, ambition, sisterhood, motherhood, and self-knowledge, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complicated lives of two indelible women. Dazzlingly insightful and beautifully crafted, Dual Citizens captures the unique language of sisters and makes visible the imperceptible strings that bind us to the ones we love for good.
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Nouvelles, Canada (romans)
In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A… mysterious tech conference brings a writer to Montreal where he discovers new designs on the past in "How it Used to Be." A grandfather's Yiddish letters expose a love affair and a wartime secret in "Little Rooster." In "Roman's Song," Roman's desire to help a new immigrant brings him into contact with a sordid underworld. At his father's request, Victor returns to Riga, the city of his birth, and has his loyalties tested by the man he might have been in "A New Gravestone for an Old Grave." And, in the noir-inspired "The Russian Riviera," Kostya leaves Russia to pursue a boxing career only to find himself working as a doorman in a garish nightclub in the Toronto suburbs.
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Canada (romans), Nouvelles
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle -- of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a… "true" Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother's rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too "faas" or too "quiet" or too "bold" or too "soft." Set in "Little Jamaica," Toronto's Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these twelve interconnected stories. We see her on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig's head in her great aunt's freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother's house, trying to cope with the ongoing battles between her unyielding grandparents. A rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds, Frying Plantain shows how, in one charged moment, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate, well-meaning protection can become control, and teasing play can turn to something much darker. In her brilliantly incisive debut, Zalika Reid-Benta artfully depicts the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation Canadians and first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity and predominately white society.
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Policiers (romans), Auteurs canadiens (romans)
Il n'est pas toujours avisé de se mêler des affaires des gens puissants. Pour avoir galamment raccompagné Patricia Fortin Rousseau… dans son manoir de Cap-Rouge après une beuverie, l'ex-prisonnier Daniel Hurteloup se voit offrir un boulot de gardien de nuit chez TV6, qu'elle dirige. Comme réhabilitation, il ne pouvait rêver mieux. Mais peu après ce coup de chance, le malheur frappe : Patricia est retrouvée pendue dans le studio B. Pour la police comme pour la famille de la victime, de riches industriels à la tête de Fortin Médiacom, Daniel fait un suspect tout désigné. Déterminée à disculper son frère, Sophie Hurteloup mène l'enquête, qui semble vouloir se transformer en leçon d'histoire : le meurtre de Patricia serait-il le contre-coup d'un conflit de travail ayant secoué l'empire Fortin quarante ans auparavant ? « Prolétaires de tous les pays, qui tricote vos chaussettes ? » La question lancée autrefois par les grévistes de l'usine de bas Forty attend toujours sa réponse. 2017.
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Multiculturalisme (romans), Auteurs canadiens (romans)
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Santé et médecine, Psychologie, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
Nul n'est à l'abri de la dépression. Selon l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé, en 2020 la dépression majeure sera la… deuxième cause d'invalidité chez l'être humain, après les maladies cardio vasculaires, un bond phénoménal depuis les dernières années. Devant ce constat inquiétant, on ne peut que s'interroger sur les origines d'un tel fléau que certains appellent le cancer de l'âme. Cette maladie, qui n'est malheureusement pas toujours reconnue comme telle, est certes le fruit de causes multiples, mais également celui d'une société où la quête de sens est peu valorisée et où l'avoir prédomine sur l'être. Au-delà du témoignage vibrant que nous livre l'auteure sur l'effondrement intérieur qu'elle a subi à deux reprises à cause de la dépression, ce livre offre aussi des outils précieux aux personnes qui sont en train de reconstruire leur estime de soi et leurs relations avec les autres après avoir vécu une expérience de même type. Cet ouvrage lumineux sera aussi utile aux aidants naturels et aux intervenants du milieu de la santé. Un message d'espoir pour tous ceux qui cherchent la lumière au bout du tunnel. - Une analyse minutieuse des mécanismes qui conduisent à la dépression du point de vue du malade. - Des conseils pratiques pour détecter les symptômes et redévelopper l'estime de soi. 2015.
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Nouvelles, Auteurs canadiens (romans), Prix littéraires (romans)
Ce n'est pas comme ça que ça aurait dû se passer. D'habitude, les choses sont différentes. Mais voilà, il y… a les bouchons de circulation, la pression familiale, la curiosité ou la guerre, et soudain les événements prennent un tournant inattendu. Et cette chaleur qui pèse et exacerbe toutes les tensions...En dix-huit nouvelles, Aurélie Resch explore les désordres possibles lorsque le soleil, la fièvre ou le feu font sentir leurs effets et obligent les personnages à composer avec des circonstances extrêmes. Gagnant de Prix Trillium 2018. 2017.
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Policiers (romans), Sensations (romans à)
Un serial killer sévit à New York, pourchassant et assassinant ceux dont, à ses yeux, les crimes sont restés impunis.… Quand le détective Zach Jordan et sa partenaire Kylie McDonald du NYPD Red entrent en scène, une découverte macabre est faite : le cadavre d'une femme influente tournant sur le manège de Central Park. 2015.