A “soucoyant” is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders, cultures, and generations, a young man returns home to care for his aging mother, who suffers from dementia. In his efforts to help her and by turn make amends for their past estrangement from one another, he is compelled to re-imagine his mother’s stories for her before they slip completely into darkness. In delicate, h...

'A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life' Marlon James, Winner of the Man Booker PrizeNOW A FILM STARRING LAMAR JOHNSON AND AARON PIERREWINNER OF THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZEWINNER OF THE TORONTO BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRI...

“On ve on bir yaşında iki oğlan çocuğunu ne korkutur?” Toronto’nun dışındaki Park adlı bu yerde Michael ve Francis adında iki kardeş yaşıyor. Trinidad’tan göçmüş bir ailenin çocukları. Anneleri para kazanabilmek için iki işte çalışırken Francis geleceğini müzikte görüyor. Küçük kardeş Michael’ın aklında lisenin en akıllı kızı Aisha var. Aisha zeki; hayalleri mahallelerinin dışında. Günlük yaşamın koşuşturmasında kaybolup giderlerken bir akşam Park’ta silah sesleri duyulacak. Bu sesler heps...

'There is, as you pick it up, nothing to prepare you for its power' OBSERVER'Quite simply, one of the most beautiful books I have ever read' AMINATTA FORNAHow do we navigate our complex histories for our children? What is our duty to share and what must we leave for them to discover? Writing to his daughter, David Chariandy asks difficult, unsettling, perhaps impossible questions – questions made all the more poignant by our curren...

De zomer van 1991 is zinderend heet in Scarborough, een multiculturele wijk van Toronto. De broers Michael en Francis proberen zich tevergeefs te verweren tegen de vooroordelen en de lage verwachtingen waarmee ze zich als zonen van immigranten uit Trinidad geconfronteerd zien. Leraren delen hen in op lagere niveaus, de middenstand ziet ze slechts als potentiële winkeldieven en vreemden versnellen hun pas wanneer de jongens achter ze lopen. Gedreven door de pulserende beats en lifestyle van...

Michael and Francis are the bright, ambitious sons of Trinidadian immigrants. Coming of age in the outskirts of a sprawling city, the brothers battle against careless prejudices and low expectations. While Francis aspires to a future in music, Michael dreams of Aisha, the smartest girl in their school, whose eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But one sweltering summer night the hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably cut short.

Michael och Francis är bröder. De växer upp i The Park, ett av Torontos mest utsatta områden, med sin mor som migrerat från Trinidad med drömmar om ett bättre liv. Bröderna är begåvade och ambitiösa, men fostras i en miljö där möjligheterna är få och tryggheten sällsynt för unga svarta män. Sommaren 1991 tar drömmarna slut, och ett liv präglat av trauma och oförlösta minnen väntar för Michael och hans familj.Bror är en roman om sorg och rasism, minnen och musik, och för tankarna ti...

Som a l'estiu de 1991, en plena onada de calor. El Park és un complex d'edificis baixos, cases adossades i blocs de pisos de formigó on hi viuen milers de persones que lluiten per trobar feina, cuidar-se els uns als altres i qui dia passa, any empeny. Com molts dels seus veïns, Michael i Francis són fills d'immigrants: el pare va desaparèixer i la mare va venir de Trinitat amb el somni de convertir-se en infermera i, en canvi, combina tres feines, viatja en autobusos durant hores i torna a...

Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include: Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Madeleine Thien, M G Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Q...

This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by celebrating the best emerging Black writers in the country, as sele...

Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy explores the fiction written by this Caribbean Canadian writer to bring new perspectives to the existing scholarship on memory, history, trauma, myth, second-generation issues, cultural inheritance and transmission. The works presented in this collection about Chariandy’s novels Soucouyant and Brother consider new aspects and bring a fresh gaze to themes that have previously been explored. Critical Perspectives on Davi...

Michael och Francis är bröder. De växer upp i The Park, ett av Torontos mest utsatta områden, med sin mor som migrerat från Trinidad med drömmar om ett bättre liv. Bröderna är begåvade och ambitiösa, men fostras i en miljö där möjligheterna är få och tryggheten sällsynt för unga svarta män. Sommaren 1991 tar drömmarna slut, och ett liv präglat av trauma och oförlösta minnen väntar för Michael och hans familj.Bror är en roman om sorg och rasism, minnen och musik, och för tankarna ti...