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The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture.

D'où je viens, il faut dire comme tout le monde ou bien se taire. Et ton père, ce n'est pas quelqu'un qui sait se taire. Ni quelqu'un qui aime dire comme tout le monde. Alors on a eu des ennuis.

Des lettres pour réussir à dire au revoir Chère Linou. Voici commence chaque lettre que Mimi adresse à la petite soeur qu'elle n'a pas connue.

First produced in Canada by Canadian Stage, Toronto, in September 2021. First produced by Theater der Welt, Dusseldorf, in June 2021.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginn

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp.

Separated from his siblings in the midst of a dangerous forest fire, 11-year-old Virgil must find a way to survive using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wildernes

Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Four generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice.

Wildfire season in the British Columbia Interior. Experienced firefighting pilot Rafe Mackie loses control of his airplane while doing a routine drop and plummets to his death.

It's July 1948, and peace has been declared in Europe.

1963 - Finn Kenny has fled life in Ottawa after being implicated in an RCMP purge of suspected Communist sympathisers and homosexuals. He ends up on Vancouver Island working as a groundskeeper.

"One day, not long ago, I was kidnapped by a bitter but fun-loving South Korean art collector named Mr.

At a crumbling zoo, an elephant keeper, a security guard, and a newly hired media consultant have differing views over what should be done about the zoo's main attraction, the aging Sri Lankan

A diverse group of seven writers comes together to create seven tender scenes about their hopes for the future.