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LIEN CHAO, The Chinese Knot and Other Stories

Award-winning author Lien Chao weaves together eight emotionally charged short stories focusing on Chinese immigrants in Toronto’s multiracial neighbourhoods.

"There is good energy in these stories, and they give insight into experiences that might be new to many readers." - NOW Magazine

FICTION
ISBN 9781894770439  $18.95  120 pp.  paper

LIEN CHAO, Tiger Girl (Hu Nü): A Creative Non-Fiction
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through the gripping stories of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression in Mao's China and outdated attitudes to women.
CREATIVE MEMOIR
ISBN 0920661-93-9 / 9780920661932  $16.95  240 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  $13.95  128 pp.  paper

KWAI-YUN LI, The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories

From crumbling shops in Chinatown to decaying tanneries in Tangra, Kwai-yun Li's collection of linked short stories expose us to the life of a marginalized community (the Hakka Chinese) in postcolonial Calcutta.

"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

FICTION

ISBN 9781894770316  $18.95  114 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

TAHIRA NAQVI, Dying in a Strange Country

The stories in this collection are told in multiple voices—aging aunts, mothers, cousins, the environment of the motherland itself—yet all manage to converge upon the world of the immigrant in meaningful ways.
“...a poignant and moving commentary on what it means to be an immigrant in the US.’’
—Herizons
“...issues of gender, generations and culture come together to give the narrative a resonant depth and offer more than one layer of meaning.’’ —World Literature Today
FICTION
ISBN 0920661-86-6 / 9780920661864  $15.95   144 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  $15.95  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   $12.95   112 pp.  paper

NALINI WARRIAR, Blues from the Malabar Coast

The twelve stories in Blues from the Malabar Coast describe the life of the Variyars, a traditional matriarchal family dominated from dawn till dusk by the old grandmother in the kitchen.
 “Beautiful and gripping stories written with a seasoned maturity.” —Austin clarke
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-99-8 / 9780920661994  $18.95  144 pp.   paper 

NALINI WARRIAR, The Enemy Within

Set against the backdrop of Quebec politics and spanning three decades, The Enemy Within is a memorable portrait of a woman caught between worlds, who breaks with tradition in search of peace and love, only to be betrayed by the man she first loved and the land she has thought of as hers.
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-24-2 / 9781894770248  $18.95   224 pp.   paper

SALIMA BHIMANI, Majalis al-ilm: Sessions of Knowledge
Majalis al-ilm takes the reader through the journeys of nine Canadian Muslim women from a diversity of backgrounds, as they consider issues such as identity, gender, faith, spirituality, and community development.
“...provides a breath of life into contemporary understanding of the inner dimension of Islam.”
—Montreal Gazette
SOCIAL STUDIES / HISTORY / RELIGION
9781894770056  $25.95  216 pp.  paper
9781894770064  $36.95  216 pp.  hardcover

LIEN CHAO, Tiger Girl (Hu Nü): A Creative Non-Fiction
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.
FICTION
ISBN 0920661-93-9 / 9780920661932  $16.95  240 pp.  paper

MEENA ALEXANDER, River and Bridge

“In this new collection we are privy to the full and variegated display of [Meena Alexander's] poetry.’’ —marilyn chin
“Meena Alexaner is one of the finest Indian poets writing today.’’ —keki n. daruwalla
POETRY
ISBN 0920661-56-4 / 9780920661567  $11.95  104 pp.   paper 

ANURIMA BANERJI, Night Artillery

Passionate and subtly exotic, keenly aware of Persian mystical love concepts and with a trained eye on Hindu mythology, these supple new poems explore the territories of love, the longings of the body, and the pains of loss and exile.
“...lyrics that are almost too posh, almost too sumptuous...hauntingly lovely.’’
—Halifax Chronicle Herald
POETRY
ISBN 0-920661-90-4 / 9780920661901  $13.95  71 pp.   paper 

LIEN CHAO, Maples and the Stream

This long narrative poem in English and Chinese follows one woman's journey from China to Canada over four decades.
NOTE: Includes both the English and Mandarin texts

POETRY
ISBN 9781894770189  $14.95  136 pp.   paper 

LIEN CHAO, More Than Skin Deep

These poems, created both in English and Chinese, explore the experiences of Chinese and other Asian Canadians.
NOTE: Includes both the English and Mandarin texts

POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-18-8 / 9781894770187  $16.95  88 pp.   paper 

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 

BING HE, Alphabet Zen

Rooted in Zen, Taoism and traditional Chinese poetry, influenced by modern Western movements, this collection reflects the author's transfigurations and redemptions of life's drabness with imagination, harmonizing oriental wisdom with metaphysical sensibilities.
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-23-4 / 9781894770231  $16.95   80 pp.   paper 

IRENE MARQUES, Wearing Glasses of Water

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.
POETRY
ISBN 9781894770392  $16.95   80 pp.   paper 

DIANE McGIFFORD and JUDITH KEARNS, Shakti's Words: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women's Poetry

Articulating a purely feminist consciousness; giving voice to Third World and immigrant concerns; decrying racism and bigotry; rebellious and subversive, sometimes simply lyrical or imagistic; invoking the real, magical, and mythical, old worlds and the new; analytical or synthetical; these poems reflect also a commitment to craft, the search for form, and individual style. They represent the new voices that are gradually changing the landscape of Canadian literature.

POETRY
ISBN 9780920661291  $12.95   120 pp.   paper 

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Consensual Genocide

“Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's words leap off the page–urgent, sumptuous writing that demands, and deserves, a wide audience. I'm listening.”— Anna Camilleri, author of I Am a Red Dress

SALIMAH VALIANI, breathing for breadth

Breathing is an action we take for granted... A collection of poems exploring notions of experience, learning, and understanding.
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-21-8 / 9781894770217  $16.95  120 pp.   paper  

BETTY WARRINGTON-KEARSLEY, Red Lacquered Chopsticks

Betty Warrington-Kearsley's first volume of poetry bridges the spaces between cultures. From detailed observation and personal experience, with honesty and clarity, these poems reflect upon the poet’s Asian and Western experiences.

"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
POETRY
ISBN 9781894770330  $16.95  120 pp.   paper  

BARNETT ZUMOFF, Songs to a Moonstruck Lady: Women in Yiddish Poetry
Masterly translations by Barnett Zumoff of 85 Yiddish poems by the best of the women poets and 60 Yiddish poems about women by a broad range of the great male poets.

NOTE: Includes both the English and Yiddish texts
ANTHOLOGY POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-27-7 / 9781894770279  $30.95   256 pp.   hardcover

ISBN 1-894770-26-9 / 9781894770262  $22.95   256 pp.   paperback

NURJEHAN AZIZ, Her Mother’s Ashes: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States
 Precisely crafted and sensitively told, each of these twenty stories offers us a wonderful glimpse into the complex and manifold world of the South Asian women of North America.
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0920661-40-8 / 9780920661406   $15.95   208 pp.   paper

NURJEHAN AZIZ, Her Mother’s Ashes 2: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States
 Following the greatly acclaimed first volume, this collection brings together more first-rate stories by South Asian women that—whether set in their home countries or those of their adoption—explore with profound and sensitive insight the inner tenor of women’s lives.
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-63-7 / 9780920661635   $19.95   184 pp.   paper

JOHN GREEN and FARZIN YAZDANFAR, A Walnut Sapling on Masih's Grave and Other Stories by Iranian Women
“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
ANTHOLOGY POETRY
ISBN 0-920661-39-4 / 9780920661390  $14.95   224 pp.   paper

DIANE McGIFFORD and JUDITH KEARNS, Shakti's Words: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women's Poetry

Articulating a purely feminist consciousness; giving voice to Third World and immigrant concerns; decrying racism and bigotry; rebellious and subversive, sometimes simply lyrical or imagistic; invoking the real, magical, and mythical, old worlds and the new; analytical or synthetical; these poems reflect also a commitment to craft, the search for form, and individual style. They represent the new voices that are gradually changing the landscape of Canadian literature.

POETRY
ISBN 9780920661291  $12.95   120 pp.   paper 

BARNETT ZUMOFF, Songs to a Moonstruck Lady: Women in Yiddish Poetry
Masterly translations by Barnett Zumoff of 85 Yiddish poems by the best of the women poets and 60 Yiddish poems about women by a broad range of the great male poets.

NOTE: Includes both the English and Yiddish texts
ANTHOLOGY POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-27-7 / 9781894770279  $30.95   256 pp.   hardcover

ISBN 1-894770-26-9 / 9781894770262  $22.95   256 pp.   paperback