Андре Алексис — новинки

- Интересно, — сказал Гермес, — что было бы, обладай животные человеческим разумом. - Готов поспорить на год служения, — произнес Аполлон, — что животные, заполучив человеческий разум, станут еще несчастнее людей. С этого все и началось. Пари в баре между богами Гермесом и Аполлоном привело к тому, что они даровали человеческое сознание и язык пятнадцати псам. Получив новые способности, собаки теряют покой. Одни пытаются игнорировать этот дар, желая оставаться частью собачьей стаи, другие принимают перемены. Боги наблюдают, как псы пытаются исследовать человеческий мир, как они смертельно враждуют между собой, и каждый борется с…

Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize

"A mash-up that is part fabulism, part faux biography, and part satire, Days by Moonlight conveys the experience of grief, managing to transform its inarticulable and symbolic weight into a finely wrought literary work." -- Quill and Quire

Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents' friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign language and towns that hold Indigenous Parades; it is a land of house burnings, werewolves, and witches.

Complete with Alfred's drawings of plants both real and implausible, Days by Moonlight is a Dantesque journey taken during the "hour of the wolf," that time of day when the sun is setting and the traveller can't tell the difference between dog and wolf. And it asks that perpetual question: how do we know the things we know are real, and what is real anyway?

Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize "[Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read … A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." – Kirkus Reviews "This might be the best set-up of the spring." – The Globe & Mail "André Alexis has established himself as one of our preeminent voices." – Toronto Star — I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence. — I'll wager a year's servitude, answered…

For his very first parish, Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. With more sheep than people, it's very bucolic too much Barrow Brew on Barrow Day is the rowdiest it gets. Bu things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny, whose fiance doesn't want to decide between Liz and his more worldly mistress Jane, and for Father Pennant himself, who greets some miracles of nature mayors walking on water, talking sheep with a profound crisis of faith.

Uniquely imagined and vividly evoked, André Alexis’s prize-winning novel chronicles the childhood – or perhaps the loss of childhood – of Thomas MacMillan, who sets out to piece together the early years of his life. Raised in a Southern Ontario town in the ’50s and ’60s, Thomas is abandoned to the care of his eccentric Trinidadian grandmother. Then, at ten, his mother, Katarina, reclaims him, taking him to Ottawa and to the once-splendid Victorian home of Henry Wing, a gentle conjurer whose love of science and the imagination becomes an important legacy. But is he Thomas’s father? Moving and wryly humorous, Childhood tells the story of a…

Although the Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and solve the puzzle. A Japanese screen, a painting that plays music, an aquavit bottle, a framed poem, and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: Tancred is lured in to this beguiling quest, and even though Willow dies before he can begin, he presses on. As he tracks down the treasure, however, he must enlist the help of Alexander von Wurfel, esteemed copyist, and fend off Willow's heroin dealers, a young albino named «Nigger» Colby and his sidekick, Sigismund «Freud» Luxemburg, a club-footed psychopath, both of whom are eager to get their paws on this supposed pot of gold. And he must mislead Detective Daniel Mandelshtam, his most adored friend. Based in a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honorable and what it means to be faithful. André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His most recent novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, awarded annually to the best Canadian fiction book.

By the Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen Dogs . A contemporary version of Gulliver’s Travels through a dreamscape version of small-town North America. Beautiful illustrations of plants both real and implausible.

Es beginnt wie so viele seltsame Geschichten in einer Bar. Die G?tter Hermes und Apoll streiten dar?ber, was gesch?he, wenn man Tiere mit menschlicher Intelligenz ausstatten w?rde. Sie schlie?en eine Wette ab und geben f?nfzehn Hunden, die in einer Tierklinik untergebracht sind, Bewusstsein und Sprache. Die Hunde, pl?tzlich zu komplexem Denken f?hig, entkommen und bilden ein Rudel. Einige von ihnen widerstehen den neuen M?glichkeiten und ziehen ihr altes Hundeleben vor, die anderen nehmen die Ver?nderung an. Die G?tter schauen zu, wie sich die Hunde auf unvertrautes Terrain wagen und sich streiten, w?hrend jeder mit neuen Gedanken und…