“...crisp and touching...restrained and well-focused...’’

—The Weekly Mail & Guardian (South Africa)

“...a meditation on fate and language...a compelling story.’’

—The Toronto Star

“Reading [it]...is like savouring a sweet delicacy. Every page possesses its own special flavour; every morsel, a sinful delight.’’

—Books in Canada

“...elegant...magical... “ —The Toronto Review

“... lyrics that are almost too posh, almost too sumptuous...hauntingly lovely.”
—Halifax Chronicle Herald

NOTE: Includes both the English and Punjabi texts

Born in Rajasthan, India, Rita leaves her native country to live with her diplomat father in exotic places abroad. Her innocent, happy, and sheltered childhood comes to an end with her marriage.  Shock and horror follow, for the union is violently abusive. The couple move to England, then to Canada, where the outcome is breakup, then the tragedy of a murder-suicide. 

"The short stories in this volume are marked by a sureness of touch and an acuity of observation that match the best in their genre."

— China Report

"The most striking element of Li’s writing is her ability
to synthesize delicate, rich imagery with the dirt of reality."
— City Masala

"These poems travel continents, move through emotional and political geographies of leaving and longing. From India to England to Canada, Rajinderpal S Pal searches for his poet father's legacy in language and body. Textured and sensuous, challenging in form and content, these poems invite us to hold them." —Roberta Rees

Full of verbal and visual felicities, this is an astonishing first collection
abounding with a gallery of familial and fabular figures.
A virtuoso debut! — Seymour Mayne, University of Ottawa

"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

In this new collection we are privy to the full and variegated display of [Meena Alexander's] poetry.

“Meena Alexander is one of the finest Indian poets writing today.’’

—Keki N. Daruwalla

"Shakti's Words is a diverse collection, as personal as it is politicized."

— Books in Canada

"This collection deserves a place in Canadian poetry courses across the country."  — Canadian Literature

This book tells fourteen stories from the Panchatantra and Jatakas traditions.

This book includes both the English translation and the original Yiddish text.

The contributors include:
Arun Mukherjee, York University; Fraser Sutherland, editor and writer; Robin Breon, University of Toronto; Michael Neumann, Trent University; Cecil Foster, novelist, University of Guelph; Tarek Fatah, Muslim Canadian Congress; Rozena Maart, University of Guelph.

"Mahadevan engages all the reader's senses with writing that is vivid and exotic, very often erotic, and touched throughout with gentle humour. He writes with such compassion that while reading this book you will undoubtedly nod in recognition of your own family and loves and sometimes foolish self."
— Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees

"Mahadevan’s language often enters the realm of the poetic, allowing
the reader to taste the slick oil of sizzling puris and the salted rust of trains . . ."
— City Masala

"This collection pushes against assumptions about Chinese Canadian literature and shows support for emerging writers."  — Ricepaper

“Deonandan’s prose is quirky and engaging . . . at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive . . .”  —The Globe and Mail

"Teeny Weeny Penny is an appealing story with which many children should identify." —CM: Canadian Review of Materials

“a master yarn-spinner”
—The Globe and Mail 

"Selvon writes with great charm and a fresh earthy naiveté . . ."
— New York Times

"A simple, lyrical, moving writer."
— New Statesman

Using first-person and third-person narratives, Lien Chao captures thirty-five years of recent Chinese history through the gripping stories of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression in Mao’s China and outdated attitudes to women.

"Transcultural Reinventions deserves notice for its commitment to
a significant critical project."  —Canadian Literature

"Listening to Ehab Lotayef read his poems . . . I begin to believe again that poetry matters. I am reminded of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Allen Ginsberg and other poets . . . who challenged the beliefs of their times, who were not afraid to enter the political fray and who went on to become the conscience of a generation."  —Angela Leuck, author of Flower Heart
 

“The stories allow readers to glimpse the rich, poetic Persian spirit trapped within the rigid social constraints all Iranians, especially women, endure.” 
—The Christian Science Monitor

—The Globe and Mail

These evocative and complexly intriguing poems suggest a variety of modern issues. Combining the real with the imaginary, the logical with the intuitive, the mystical and the mythical, and both oral and written traditions, they bring together different geographical, temporal, and cultural spaces to explore spiritual alienation and the nature of being, and the power of language both to liberate and to oppress.
 

“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

"Indispensable . . . Overall there is a sense in which the writers interviewed in this collection know they are contributing to an absolutely necessary project guaranteed to aid future writers and readers, with its discussions of the political and literary contexts, as well as formal and aesthetic aspects, of current Black Canadian writing."  —The University of Toronto Quarterly

—The Herald (Harare, Zimbabwe)

Five women gather every Friday night to discuss their writing lives. Isabel, returning home, where the writing circle are to meet, is attacked in her car at gunpoint and raped. But she manages to turn the gun on her attacker and shoot him. In coping with the killing, the disposal of the body, and the breakdown and recovery of Isabel, we learn about the intersecting personal lives of the women—Isabel, Carmen, Jazz, Beauty, and Amina, all successful professionals in today’s South Africa. And when the body is discovered, and the identity of the attacker revealed, all their stereotypes fall away. The novel is narrated by all five women in their individual styles.
 

"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

"A beautiful discourse on feminine spirituality in literature. Cáliz-Montoro’s writing is distinguished by a sincere search for truth, harmony, and peace."
— Frederick Ivor Case, University of Toronto