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FUNSO AIYEJINA,
The Legend of
the Rockhills and Other Stories
Bitingly satirical stories set
in the Nigeria of military dictatorships. Winner of the Commonwealth
Writers Prize.
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-78-5 / 9780920661789
$15.95 160 pp paper
MARTIN
GENETSCH,
The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG
Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry
Arguing that globalization is no longer a
term defining only international cash flow but also includes the flow and
exchange of cultures, this book examines the works of three major Canadian
writers of South Asian origin and born in three different parts of the
world—MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry. To demonstrate the
complex, textured identities of his authors of choice, Martin Genetsch shows
that these and other writers not only negotiate their Canadian identities
but also explore themselves in the cultures, histories, and geographical
locations they come from.
The result is a fine study of an important and
defining aspect of Canadian literature.
CRITICISM
ISBN 9781894770415 $25.95 256 pp paper
FARIDA KARODIA,
Against an
African Sky and Other Stories
“...riveting...palpable and heart
wrenching.” —The Globe and Mail
“Karodia had taken the writer's
role to new heights in South Africa.”
—The South African Review of
Books
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-92-9 / 9780920661628 Can $13.95
US $12.95 128 pp paper
ROZENA MAART,
Rosa's District 6
“...a
writer in our midst with radical style and uncommon courage. The ability
to engage the reader passionately in her narrator’s experiences, which
she demonstrates...makes Maart a writer to watch.” —The Ottawa Citizen
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-16-1 / 9781894770163 $18.95 168 pp paper
ROZENA
MAART, The
Writing Circle
"The Writing Circle is a beautifully written,
heartbreaking piece. If your book club is looking for a
book to spark meaningful conversation and bring
awareness to the group, no matter where you live, The
Writing Circle will deliver that and more." — carp(e)
libris
"Maart challenges our
deepest preconceptions about everything South
African—and manages to convey a remarkable resilience."—
Herizons
FICTION
ISBN 9781894770378 $20.95 208 pp paper
KAGISO LESEGO MOLOPE,
Dancing in the Dust
...“cinematic in clarity...Molope makes her reader see and
understand...feel the enormity of apartheid's atrocity.” —The Globe and Mail
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-01-3 / 9781894770019 $18.95
200 pp paper
SOPHIA MUSTAFA,
In the Shadow
of Kirinyaga
This beautiful novel reveals a
rare insight into life in early colonial Kenya, from the perspective of
a Muslim family. A poignant story innocent love caught in the web of
larger events.
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-03-X / 9781894770033 $18.95
224 pp paper
H NIGEL THOMAS,
Why We Write:
Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists
The writers include Austin Clarke, Bernadette Dyer, Althea Prince, Afua Cooper, M.
NourbeSe Philip, Cecil Foster, Lawrence Hill, George Elliott
Clarke, Wayde Compton, Robert Sandiford, Suzette Mayr, Claire Harris,
Pamela Mordecai, and Ayanna Black.
INTERVIEWS
ISBN 1-894770-34-X / 9781894770347 $24.95
224 pp paper
YVONNE VERA,
Nehanda
Runner-up for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa Region,
1995
“...a meditation on fate and language...a compelling story.” —The Toronto Star
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-41-6 / 9780920661413 $15.95
120 pp paper
YVONNE VERA,
Why Don't You
Carve Other Animals
“Caught between memory and
dreaming, the hopeful exile weaves a comforting performance out of a
tale of agony.” (excerpt from the book)
“A subtle writer... [This book] radiates the same commitment as The
Grass Is Singing, Doris Lessing’s first novel, which forty years ago
also reported unbridgeable boundaries in Southern Africa.’’ —The
Toronto Review
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-24-6 / 9780920661246 $11.95
102 pp paper
YVONNE VERA,
Without a Name
“Probably one of the most serious female writers to come from this
country [Zimbabwe] in the decade and a half of independence.” —The
Herald (Harare, Zimbabwe)
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH REGIONAL PRIZE
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-54--8 / 9780920661543
Can $12.95 US $ 11.95 112 pp paper
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CYRIL DABYDEEN,
Drums of My
Flesh
In a central park in Ottawa's
Sandy Hill, Gabe, an immigrant from Guyana (South America), explores the
past in the company of his young Canadian-born daughter.
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-25-0 / 9781894770255 $18.95
256 pp paper
CYRIL DABYDEEN,
My Brahmin Days
and Other Stories
Closely observed, finely ironic
stories confront Dabydeen's Asian and Caribbean identity with his life
experience of life in Canada.
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-85-8 / 9780920661857 $15.95
144 pp paper
RAYWAT DEONANDAN,
Divine Elemental
According to family legend, Kalya Lal is
perhaps descended from a ghost.
“…quirky
and engaging…at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive …”
—The
Globe and Mail
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-08-0 / 9781894770088 $18.95
200 pp paper
RAYWAT DEONANDAN,
Sweet Like
Saltwater
Guyana Prize for Best First Book,
2000
Stories set in the Caribbean, in
India and in Canada profile immigration and detached belonging.
“...amusing and incisive.” —The Globe and Mail
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-77-7 / 9780920661772 $15.95
176 pp paper
ARNOLD HARRICHAND ITWARU,
Home
and Back
A touching, lyrical meditation on
growth and loss, the departure from home and life lived between
remembering and forgetting, set in Canada and Guyana. “...powerful,
involving reading.” —Books in Canada
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-94-7 / 9780920661949 $16.95
200 pp paper
ISMITH KHAN,
The Obeah Man
“A brilliant
revelation of the dark reality under a lively Caribbean surface, The
Obeah Man combines the humour of
Samuel Selvon, the pathos of George
Lamming and the irony of V S Naipaul all in one.” —Frank Birbalsingh, York University
“…a compelling story of living in changing times…its message and
impressions are long lasting…The Obeah Man is a very human story.” —
Cecil Foster, The Toronto Review
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-46-7 / 9780920661468 Can $13.95 US $
12.95 168 pp paper
SASENARINE PERSAUD,
Canada Geese
and Apple Chatney
“Persaud’s
breathtaking narrative demonstrates its strong affinity with the work of
Austin Clark. Here, almost inscrutable demotic slang, once penetrated,
reinforces Persaud’s social commentary and nimbly pits self-ironizing
postmodernism against the timeless values of narrative.” —The Globe and Mail
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-72-6 / 9780920661727 $15.95 168 pp paper
SAM SELVON,
An Island Is a World
A novel of personal and intellectual quest in postwar Trinidad.
“Selvon writes with great charm” —The New York Times
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-34-3 / 9780920661345 $13.95 126 pp paper
SAM SELVON,
Those Who Eat the
Cascadura
A story of inter-racial romance
and the havoc it creates in a Trinidad village by “a master
yarn-spinner” —The Globe and Mail
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-12-2 / 9780920661123 $17.95
184 pp paper
JOHN STEWART,
Looking for
Josephine and Other Stories
A deeply probing look at various
facets of Trinidadian life, by the author of Last Cool Days “a
considerable achievement” — The Irish Times
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-71-8 / 9780920661710 $15.95
184 pp paper
JOHN STEWART,
Last Cool Days
“John Stewart draws a painful and all too credible picture of the
squalor and injustice endured by the black community…” — The Times
Literary Supplement
“The atmosphere and insight displayed in this book make it a
considerable achievement.”
— The Irish Times
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-55-6 / 9780920661550 Can $14.95
US $12.95 184 pp paper
H
NIGEL THOMAS,
Behind the Face
of Winter
“...the
starkest, most distressingly honest, thus unforgettable, account of the
Caribbean-Canadian experience yet written.” —Montreal Gazette
A coming-of age novel set in Montreal. “...undeniably
beautiful...worth reading--and rereading...” —Quill & Quire
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-95-5 / 9780920661956 $16.95
248 pp paper
H
NIGEL
THOMAS, Return
to Arcadia
"In lean, precise prose, Return to Arcadia journeys
through the unspeakable and tabooed in the contemporary
Caribbean, reminding us that the brutalities of slavery
and colonialism continue to raise hell and fierce memory
in the more secret realms of flesh and desire."
—
Thomas
Glave, State University of New York
"Thomas offers a fine
story of forgiveness, self-actualization, and belonging."—
Montreal Review of Books
FICTION
ISBN 9781894770385 $20.95 300 pp paper
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MARTIN
GENETSCH,
The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG
Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry
Arguing that globalization is no longer a
term defining only international cash flow but also includes the flow and
exchange of cultures, this book examines the works of three major Canadian
writers of South Asian origin and born in three different parts of the
world—MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry. To demonstrate the
complex, textured identities of his authors of choice, Martin Genetsch shows
that these and other writers not only negotiate their Canadian identities
but also explore themselves in the cultures, histories, and geographical
locations they come from.
The result is a fine study of an important and
defining aspect of Canadian literature.
CRITICISM
ISBN 9781894770415 $25.95 256 pp paper
H NIGEL THOMAS,
Why We
Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists
The writers include Austin Clarke, Bernadette Dyer, Althea Prince, Afua Cooper, M.
NourbeSe Philip, Cecil Foster, Lawrence Hill, George Elliott
Clarke, Wayde Compton, Robert Sandiford, Suzette Mayr, Claire Harris,
Pamela Mordecai, and Ayanna Black.
INTERVIEWS
ISBN 1-894770-34-X / 9781894770347 $24.95
224 pp paper
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MADELINE COOPSAMMY,
Prairie
Journey
"A brave and beautiful
collection—at times reflective, at times haunting, but always,
challenging us to rethink our ideas of home and our dilemmas of
belonging."
—ramabai
espinet
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-17-X / 9781894770170
$16.95 120 pp paper
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Frank Birbalsingh,
Jahaji: An
Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction
Indians
have lived in the Caribbean for more than a hundred and sixty years,
ever since they took to the ships to work on the sugar plantations.
Jahaji (the term meaning “ship traveler”) brings together a
representative selection of Indo-Caribbean fiction from three
generations of writers. Together, the sixteen writers included here give
us an imaginative depiction of the experiences of their people across a
span of fifty years.
ANTHOLOGY
ISBN
0-920661-88-2 / 9780920661888 $21.95 216 pp paper
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