Winner of CBC Canada Reads 2010Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for TranslationIntricately plotted and shimmering with originality, Nikolski charts the curious and unexpected courses of personal migration, and shows how they just might eventually lead us to home.Spring 1989. Three young people leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their personal songs of migration. Each ...

From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet, smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers—if only one of them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh.The Randall family was always a little strange. For generations, each member receives a prophetic vision of the apocalypse—but always on a different date. When the End of Days fails to materialize, yet another Randall goes mad....

Willkommen auf Domaine Bordeur verkündete der Schriftzug auf dem Schild, bevor ihn jemand in Willkommen auf Domaine Boredome – Hauptstadt der Langeweile geändert hat. Aus diesem verlorenen Trailerpark im Süden Québecs nahe der US-amerikanischen Grenze will die fünfzehnjährige hochbegabte Tüftlerin Lisa ausbrechen. Éric ist der Einzige, der sie versteht. Doch wegen seiner chronischen Platzangst hat der junge Hacker das Haus seit Jahren nicht verlassen und lebt stattdessen in den digitalen W...

Three young people, born thousands of miles apart, each cut themselves adrift from their birthplaces and set out to discover what - or who - might anchor them in their lives. Over the course of the next ten years, Noah, Joyce and an unnamed narrator will each settle for a time in Montreal, their paths almost criss-crossing and their own stories weaving in and out of other wondrous tales, about such things as a pair of fearsome female pirates, a team of urban archaeologists, several enormou...

From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet, smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers—if only one of them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh.The Randall family was always a little strange. For generations, each member receives a prophetic vision of the apocalypse—but always on a different date. When the End of Days fails to materialize, yet another Randall goes mad....

Entre Canadá y Japón, entre la más aguda disección de la realidad y el surrealismo más hilarante, Apocalipsis para principiantes es una comedia romántica entrañable e inteligente sobre dos grandes amigos que podrían llegar a ser novios si no fuera porque uno de ellos está plenamente convencido de que el fin del mundo se acerca.La familia Randall siempre fue un poco extraña. Durante generaciones, cada miembro recibe una visión profética del fin del mundo, siempre en una fec...

Winner of CBC Canada Reads 2010Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for TranslationIntricately plotted and shimmering with originality, Nikolski charts the curious and unexpected courses of personal migration, and shows how they just might eventually lead us to home.Spring 1989. Three young people leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their personal songs of migration. Each ...

Boy meets girl and... boom! The boy falls hopelessly in love and secretly harbours hopes for their romantic future. And the girl? Well, the girl is fully convinced that there is no future at all: not just for them, but for the entire planet. Moving between Canada and Japan, between solid ground and flights of the surreal, this is the sweet, surprising story of two people travelling from friendship to romance, and from separation to the possibility of reunion.

Livre audio narré par Steve Gagnon, sur une musique de Millimetrik. Pauvre Hope Randall : elle est née dans une famille où chaque membre reçoit sa propre vision de la fin du monde, accompagnée d’une date précise, différente pour chacun. De quoi alimenter plus d’un manuel d’histoire de la psychiatrie. Prévenue que l’apocalypse aurait lieu l’été 1989, sa mère a cherché à fuir son destin en Lada, pour échouer à 1200 kilomètres de Yarmouth. Parties pour l’Ouest, mère et fille n’ont d’autre cho...