With the end of apartheid, a new constitution, and a new hope for the future of the country, ordinary South Africans pick up the threads of their ordinary day-to-day lives. In these stories Karodia explores lives and relationships in the new South Africa from the perspective of Indian, African, and European characters.

“…riveting…palpable and heart wrenching…”

—The Globe and Mail

“Karodia has taken the writer’s role to new heights in South Africa.” —South African Review of Books

Rooted in Zen, Taoism and traditional Chinese poetry, influenced by modern Western movements such as Surrealism and Expressionism, this poetry collection reflects the author's transfigurations and redemptions of life's drabness with imagination, harmonizing oriental wisdom with metaphysical sensibilities.

This anthology contains some of the most active and dynamic voices of contemporary poetry written by Americans and Canadians of Asian background. The poetry has a wide-ranging appeal reflecting place and time. Bold clear imagery and motifs depict a changing North American landscape of cultural and spiritual heterogeneity. Included are Canadians Joy Kogawa, Rienzi Crusz, Suniti Namjoshi, and Himani Bannerji, and Americans Arthur Sze, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, David Mura, Cathy Song.

A coming-of-age novel set in a Montreal in which immigrant youth totter on the edge of self-destruction and oblivion, in the face of brutal and racist police, an insensitive education system, and few prospects for the future. Thomas’s language is spare, and his crackling dialogue and use of patois can compare with the best in Caribbean literature.

“…a hard story, sometimes despairingly bleak, but it is also undeniably beautiful…worth reading – and rereading…”

—Quill & Quire

From unappreciated railway workers facing institutional racism and neglect in the last century to national cultural figures of the present, the Chinese, like other coloured peoples of Canada, have made great inroads into the mainstream, which in turn has adjusted its self-image to accommodate diversity.

“…an important milestone in the evolution of Canadian literary studies”

—Arun Mukherjee, York University

CRITICISM

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These twelve delightful linked stories begin in a small village on India’s Malabar coast. The Variyars are a traditional matriarchal family, their children are numerous and spoilt, and life revolves around the temple. The family and its fortunes are described through the perceptions of its various members, particularly the younger ones. “Blues from the Malabar Coast” describes the life of the family, dominated from dawn till dusk by the old grandmother in the kitchen . . . In “Greener Pastures” a young couple arrive in Quebec City, whose winters Ven adores and where Seema recalls the life of her family. In “Going Back” Seema returns for the cremation of her father.

“Beautiful and gripping stories written with a seasoned maturity.”

The poems in this collection, in various sections, elaborate on the emotional experience of challenging and trying; explore the ways of accepting vulnerability, and drawing understanding from it; search for beauty in endurance; explore protest and resistance; and finally revolve around the idea of taking risk and learning and becoming through experiences larger than the self and beyond the personal.

—Ottawa Express

In this award-winning collection of stories, Persaud presents us once more with his unique vision of lives, both North American and Caribbean. Here are voices probing at differences which are and aren't: all threaded together by the ancestral India of the protagonists' imagination, the Caribbean of their childhood, the Toronto or New York of their recent years, presented in a style inspired by an ancient tradition in which storytellers move easily in and out of stories and time and history

“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

There is no morality left but that of the tiger: brute force.

It is 1948. The Afrikaaner Nationalists are poised to introduce the racist policy of apartheid into South Africa. Their plans include the conversion of District Six in Cape Town into an exclusively white residential district, and the removal of its current residents. As profiteers and politicians converge upon this slum area, its threatened residents valiantly put up a fight. Henry Naidoo is drawn into the fight. Naidoo, a highly principled yet gentle Indian lawyer, realizes that the struggle against apartheid is no ordinary fight for justice. It calls for a brutality he is not equipped with.

In this new collection of poetry, Kuwabong shows a maturity of voice and a larger poetic vision to celebrate love—love for the people of the Caribbean and love between lovers.

In the first part of this collection the love that is celebrated emerges from a deep sense of historical reconnection with the poet’s African ancestors who were taken captive and sent to the Caribbean. But the focus is not on the brutality of their enslavement, though that is the guiding principle that informs the poetic voice. The poems perform a retrospective search for the roots that his African ancestors planted in the new world without romanticizing their struggles, defeats, and victories. Thus they recreate the continental African as a seeker of a poetic understanding of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean.

A tough, hard-hitting look at Canadian cultural institutions that places them in the continuous tradition of the Western imperialistic enterprise that dominated the third world and now dominates immigrant culture in the West.

Interviews with some of the major South Asian writers from across the globe, including Vikram Seth, Tariq Ali, David Dabydeen, Shashi Tharoor, Bapsi Sidhwa.

This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we’ve been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka’s civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and guts, telling raw truths about brown girl border crossings before and after 9/11, surviving abuse, mixed-race journeys and high femme rebellions. Consensual Genocide celebrates our survival and marks our rebel memories into history.

Raised abroad in the west, Kalya returns to her ancestral village in India, and into her life arrives an odd Greek Canadian entomologist come to study the quixotic fig wasp, native to the village's peculiar ecosystem.  His name is Iskandar Diamandi and he is obsessed with the Indian march of Alexander the Great.  In the life histories of both Alexander and the wasp, Iskandar sees hidden universal truths and his own roadmap to Destiny. 

This tale of romance between unlikely lovers explores the divides between science and religion, East and West, male and female, ancient and modern, and the extent to which perception defines reality.

Urdu stories by some of the best and most renowned writers of the language, brought to the English reader in accurate modern translations.
 

“Superb... the 21 stories are both exotic and accessible.”