Knopf Canada

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
The Amateurs by Liz Harmer
Lost in September by Kathleen Winter
Men Walking on Water by Emily Schultz
Be My Wolff by Emma Richler
The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake
The Singing Fire by Lillian Nattel
Belonging: Home Away from Home by Isabel Huggan
Between Mountains by Maggie Helwig
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan
The Banker and the Blackfoot: A Memoir of My Grandfather in Chinook Country by J. Edward Chamberlin
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
Searching for Bobby Orr by Stephen Brunt
Long Change by Don Gillmor
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin and Alexandra Shimo
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours by Maria Mutch
Come Back by Rudy Wiebe
The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
Adult Onset by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Confabulist by Steven Galloway
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Touch
The Better Mother by Jen Sookfong Lee
A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
Tell It to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami
Every Lost Country by Steven Heighton
Irma Voth by Miriam Toews
Benevolence by Cynthia Holz
The Blue Light Project by Timothy Taylor
Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World by Doug Saunders
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor
Dispatches from the Sporting Life by Mordecai Richler
On Snooker by Mordecai Richler
Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
Ascension by Steven Galloway
The Way The Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Uncommon Ground: A Celebration of Matt Cohen by Graeme Gibson, Wayne Grady, Dennis Lee and Priscila Uppal
Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
The Sea Captain's Wife by Beth Powning
The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
Apologize, Apologize! by Elizabeth Kelly
The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot
Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Turtle Valley by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Ragged Islands by Don Hannah
Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami
Story House by Timothy Taylor
Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968 by John English
Afterlands by Steven Heighton
What Casanova Told Me by Susan Swan
What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
Bang Crunch by Neil Smith
The Perpetual Ending by Kristen den Hartog
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations by J. Edward Chamberlin
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century by Dan Yashinsky
Seduction by Catherine Gildiner
The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke by Steven Hayward
Feed My Dear Dogs by Emma Richler
A Perfect Pledge by Rabindranath Maharaj
The Shape I Gave You by Martha Baillie
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest by Rudy Wiebe
The Program by Hal Niedzviecki
An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
Fabrizio's Return by Mark Frutkin
The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
Luck by Joan Barfoot
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground by J. Edward Chamberlin
One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Last Seen by Matt Cohen
Baltimore's Mansion by Wayne Johnston
At the Full and Change of the Moon by Dionne Brand
The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto
Summer Gone by David Macfarlane
Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman by Ruby Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
This Year in Jerusalem by Mordecai Richler
The Republic of Whores: A Fragment from the Time of the Cults by Josef Skvorecky and Paul Wilson
Dispatches form the Sporting Life by Mordecai Richler
On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It by Mordecai Richer
Sister Crazy by Emma Richler
Down There by the Train by Kate Sterns
Water Wings by Kristen den Hartog
The Uncharted Heart by Melissa Hardy
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
Sputnik Diner by Rick Maddocks
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Cargo of Orchids by Susan Musgrave
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
The Bride of Texas by Josef Skvorecky
The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima by Alberto Manguel and Craig Stephenson
A Discovery of Strangers by Rudy Wiebe
Henderson's Spear by Ronald Wright
In Spite of Myself by Christopher Plummer
Getting Lucky by Matt Cohen
The Lagahoo's Apprentice by Rabindranath Maharaj
Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers by Rachel Manley
Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood by Riska Orpa Sari
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
The Shadow Boxer by Steven Heighton
Connecting Flights: In Conversation with Re?my Charest by Robert Lepage and Wanda Romer Taylor
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
More Writers & Company by Eleanor Wachtel
The Life of Margaret Laurence by James King
At First I Hope for Rescue by Holly Rubinsky
dad says he saw you at the mall by Ken Sparling
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
The Wild Is Always There: Canada Through the Eyes of Foreign Writer by Greg Gatenby
The Very Richness of That Past: :Canada Through the Eyes of Foreign Writers, Volume II by Greg Gatenby
Traplines by Eden Robinson
Sweeter Than All the World by Rudy Wiebe
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
The Haunting of L by Howard Norman
Belling the Cat: Essays, Reports and Opinions by Mordecai Richler
When Alice Lay Down With Peter by Margaret Sweatman
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
The Paper Wife by Linda Spalding
Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art by Jodi Cobb
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
The Rain Ascends by Joy Kogawa
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Jack: A Life with Writers. The Story of Jack McClelland by James King
Make Believe Love by Lee Gowan
In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honoré
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly
The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens
The Blue Light Project by Timothy Taylor
Benevolence by Cynthia Holz
A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
Tell It to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami
The Dead Are More Visible: Stories by Steven Heighton
This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge by Mark Leiren-Young and Tzeporah Berman