**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GILLER PRIZE • The story of the restorative power of art in one man’s life, set against the sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the ’20s and ’30s, through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Sicily.“Bold and resplendent.” —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid“Supremely artful.” —Toronto Star**Henry, born 1916, thin-as-sticks, nearsighted, is an obsessive doodler—copying ...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZEOctavio Notre-Dame comes from a long line of bakers. At the establishment known throughout the eighth district as the cake-slice, he produces baguettes and brioches with timeless perfection. But like generations of Notre-Dame men before him, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading. His only knowledge of the worl...

Ambrose Zephyr and his wife Zappora Ashkenazi (“Zipper”) have achieved a happy and balanced life together. The two live contentedly in a narrow London terrace full of books.That contentment is thrown into turmoil on Ambrose’s fiftieth birthday, when they receive the news that he has contracted a mysterious illness that will most certainly lead to his death within the month. In panicked delirium, from beneath their bed Ambrose withdraws an oxblood suitcase containing the ephemera of...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GILLER PRIZE • The story of the restorative power of art in one man’s life, set against the sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the ’20s and ’30s, through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Sicily.“Bold and resplendent.” —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid“Supremely artful.” —Toronto Star**Henry, born 1916, thin-as-sticks, nearsighted, is an obsessive doodler—copying ...

Part of the inaugural Kanata Classics list, with a new introduction by Sharon Bala, Ru is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow--of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and ...

A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the landWhen a troubled father and his estranged teenage daughter head out onto the land in search of the family trapline, they find their way back to themselves, and to each otherDeep in the night, Matthew paces the house, unable to rest. Though his sixteen-year-old daughter, Holly, lies sleeping on the other side of the bedroom door, she is light years away ...

A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the landWhen a troubled father and his estranged teenage daughter head out onto the land in search of the family trapline, they find their way back to themselves, and to each otherDeep in the night, Matthew paces the house, unable to rest. Though his sixteen-year-old daughter, Holly, lies sleeping on the other side of the bedroom door, she is light years away ...

"…an old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers...but also a paean to artisanal work, food, friendship and family…Trigiani is a master of palpable and visual detail." — Washington PostBeloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking epic romance and multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again...

From the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait: an irresistible novel about the collapse—and reawakening—of an unlikely marriage between an American professor and a reclusive actress.Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on vacation in Ireland when he falls in love with a world-famous actress who has fled fame for a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic...

A bold and captivating new novel of ancient Greece, from the celebrated, award-winning author of The Golden Mean.Pythias is her father's daughter, with eyes his exact shade of unlovely, intelligent grey. A slave to his own curiosity and intellect, Aristotle has never been able to resist wit in another--even in a girl child who should be content with the kitchen, the loom and a life dictated by the womb. And oh his little Pytho is smart, able to best his own students in deb...

New York Times bestsellerAn unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, told “with humor and optimism…through the eyes of an irresistible heroine” (People)—from the acclaimed author of The Red Tent.Anita Diamant’s “vivid, affectionate portrait of American womanhood” (Los Angeles Times), follows the life of one woman, Addie Baum, through a period of d...

Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young ...