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A bestseller in China with more than 1 million copies sold.Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be re-educated under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and her mother, a former teacher branded as a capitalist, is now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two younger sibling...

When an environmental disaster destroys Toronto, four childhood friends are forced to abandon their urban middle-class lives and choose the extremes by which they will survive. One man, Paul Henry, returns to the northern Ontario land of his youth, seeking to escape and endure deep within the wilderness, away from all contact with others. As he journeys, he encounters many people whose lives formed his own, and whose lives are now crumbling an...

To commemorate Roots Canada's 40th anniversary, Roots: 40 Years of Style celebrates the company's rich history and brings together a curated collection of the best and most visually arresting photographs from the Roots archives — many of which have never been seen before. As Canada's most iconic brand, Roots has a history that runs deep into the heart of the country. The company was founded in 1973 by Michael Budman and Don Green, with a goal ...

Each year the Griffin Poetry Prize honors the best books of poetry published in English in the world. This annual anthology includes some of the finest poems from the collections of extraordinary poets worldwide, and reads like a veritable who's who of contemporary poetry. Juror Erin Mouré's introduction describes the joy and difficulty of having to choose from among such richness. The 2005 edition gathers together work that reminds us of what...

For the first time in history, will it be better to be a woman than a man in the upcoming century? The twelfth semi-annual Munk Debate pits renowned author and editorHanna Rosin and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd against New York Times-bestselling author Caitlin Moran and academic trailblazer Camille Paglia to debate one of the biggest socio-economic phenomena of our time - the relative decline of the power and status of men in ...

Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.A psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Laing worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. His books include The Self and Others and The Politics of Experience.

The best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured annually with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest and most prestigious literary awards. The 2011 edition of the anthology includes poems from all the books to be shortlisted and the poems in the 2011 anthology are selected and introduced by the judges. Royalties from the sales of the anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day, cr...

Governor General's Literary award finalist Sharon Thesen's latest poetry collection, "Oyama Pink Shale, " is a sly, self-directed, discrete yet joyously emancipatory work. By animating and voicing various moments and selves -- childhood masques, indebted adult friend to artists, cold documentarian of a haunted sanitarium, among others -- Thesen's poems show the transience of the earthly moment while convincing us of the thread of spirit that l...

A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour and razor precision of Matt Rader's first two collections but ascends, also, to a luminous, demanding, particularized realm of the human we all recognize as the world we're meant to live in. Whether stranded in a Git'ksan village in northern B.C. or a hallucinatory pensione in modern Italy, these eloquent, troubled poems are the vo...

Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss.Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and gr...

Intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens goes head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western world's most openly devout political leaders, on the highly charged topic of religion. Few world leaders have had a greater hand in shaping current events than Blair, few writers have been more outspoken and polarizing than Hitchens. Here they square off on the contentious questions that continue ...

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Christmas Days" leads us through the 24 days before Christmas, stopping to examine some of the most wonderfully wacky traditions along the way. In each of his 24 charming chapters, McCormack tucks an inventive story that is quintessentially Christmassy and wittily illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Seth. From toy stockings to Santa Claus to holly and mistletoe, "Christmas Days" offers a delightful sampling of holiday treats past and present.

In this deeply moving and elegantly written book, Halfdan W. Freihow takes Gabriel, his young autistic son, on a journey through the full spectrum of human experience. With great love, profound tenderness, and gentle wit, Freihow captures Gabriel's triumphs and disappointments, his joy and frustration, while struggling to help him make sense of a world that he himself does not, and cannot, fully comprehend. A powerful, honest, and achingly bea...

A visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok. Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the breakthroughs to come. In this personal and fascinating work, Neil Turok, Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, explor...

The best English-language books of poetry are honored each year with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest and most important literary awards. The release of its yearly anthology is an event awaited with anticipation by poetry lovers around the world. "The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2007" includes poems from the books shortlisted by jurors John Burnside, Charles Simic, and Karen Solie for the year's two $50, 000 awards as we...

(Nowlan's) work is the work of a brave man . . . his details are fantastically clear. His clear direct language is no transformative--it's not about one thing changing another--but a descriptive language, about the way things are".--Robert Bly.

Michael Ondaatje's poems have been celebrated by readers and writers alike for containing some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. "The Story" combines Ondaatje's sensual writing with watercolor illustrations by celebrated painter David Bolduc, making a unique item. Left-hand pages contain Bolduc's art while right-hand pages contain Ondaatje's poem -- both typeset and in the author's own handwriting. This e...

In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation - the 25-year-olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text messaging each other truncated emotional reactions, unsure of what's public and what's private. Holding Still explores an unusual love triangle involving Billie, a former teen idol and now an anxiety-ridden agoraphobic, Josh, a shy transgendered ...