Johanna Skibsrud

• Sep-2019
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From the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists comes the story of a revolution on an imaginary island. "Reading Island is a searing, vertiginous experience. Hailing Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to interrogate our current momen...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short FictionA collection of intrepid and incisive stories from the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The SentimentalistsTiger, Tiger takes readers from the Paradise Valley Senior Centre par...

• Mar-2015
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Your little arms and legs move just like you are a baby monkey climbing into the leafy branches of a tree. But you are not a monkey. Your nose twitches and your mouth moves as though you are a bunny sniffing the garden air. But you are not a bunny.Mo...

• Oct-2014
• / General Fiction
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Inspired by and structured around the chamber piece of the same title by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, "Quartet for the End of Time" is a mesmerizing story of four lives irrevocably linked in a single act of betrayal. The novel takes us on an...

• Apr-2012
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Nine loosely connected, hypnotic stories about memory and desire showcase one of fiction's bright new voices. In the Scotiabank Giller Prize -- winning author Johanna Skibsrud's new book, nine loosely connected and hypnotic stories introduce an unfo...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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• May-2011
• / Literary
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Haunted by the vivid horrors of the Vietnam War, exhausted from years spent battling his memories, Napoleon Haskell leaves his North Dakota trailer and moves to Canada. He retreats to a small Ontario town where Henry, the father of his fallen Vietnam...