Bøger udgivet af Talon Books,Canada

An existential thriller that philosophically explores the purity of love. Russian-doll narrative, with self-referential loops and reflections on the literary medium.

A delightful collection of seventy miniature fictions and comics riffing on the theme of happiness, The Great Happiness offers a series of lively antidotes to the current climate of doom.

Pots and Other Living Beings is made up of poems with paired photographs, each describing an aspect of living in the postmodern, neoliberal age, with its promised and failed utopia, ruin, and dispossessions.

After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in the snow and cut off from the world by a nationwide power failure. He is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for wood, food, and eventual escape from the village. Will they manage to stand up against external threats and intimate pitfalls?

Makes available for the first time the collected works of this significant feminist, experimental prose writer and member of the renowned TISH group.

One of the finest explorations of the local in poetry to be found.

A brilliant poetic examination of the hypermediatized self.

Brousseau's beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each written in a single, stylistically accomplished sentence and featuring a different character, willlinger with readers.

People Live Here is a collection of three exciting new plays by George F. Walker, Canada's king of black comedy and a winner of two Governor General's Literary Awards for Drama. The Chance, Her Inside Life, and Kill the Poor complete the the author's Parkdale Palace trilogy of plays that deal with issues of social justice and ally heart, humour, and a contemporary reflection on human inequalities.

Seven Sacred Truths explores the perspective of an Indigenous Woman on a continuous journey of healing from trauma. The closer you are to the truth, the more free you become.

Collection of three coming-of-age gender and LGBTQ+ plays. Suitable for young-adult audiences. Play "My Funny Valentine" is based on true events, the assassination of openly gay non-conforming 15-year-old Lawrence King, killed by his classmate in Oxnard, California.

A collection of eight linked stories, set in Vancouver's West End, all funny, and all taking place at Christmastime. The stories deal with the seasonal tug-of-war between expectation and disappointment that always occurs as the light begins to deepen.

Interplay of Indigenous characters from different historical periods (modern vs. First World War), different cultural groups (Cree, Coast Salish ...). Suited for younger and young-adult audiences. Introduction to Indigenous Peoples in Canadian history.

The follow up to Eng's BC Book Prize-winning Prison Industrial Complex Explodes.

My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan is a darkly humorous book about grief and isolation. Cutting yet tender, sorrowful yet angry, these poems touch on death and loss, architecture, alcohol, horse statues, and catalogues of life.

An Anishnawbe man, Arthur Copper, decides to repopulate the lakes of his home Territory with manoomin, or wild rice - much to the disapproval of the local non-Indigenous cottagers, in particular the formidable Maureen Poole.

Quirky, wry, sensitive, bitchy, and honest, It's a Big Deal! interrogates the ways we interpret and process the big deals of our twenty-first-century lives. Del Bucchia's poetic voice is unique, delivering sharp humour and candid sincerity.

A verbatim play about young women's resilience through foster care.

The Living is a documentary play inspired by the actual stories of women and girls who survived trauma in post-conflict zones. It examines the lives of victims and perpetrators, post-genocide, who live side-by-side in government-issued housing, as well as the role of NGO-funded campaigns.

"Part treatise on phenomenology, part theatrical score on ontology, part billet-doux to poetry itself" (Divya Victor), PE¿FACT is a three-part series of poems interrogating the nature of experience, language, trauma, and identity.