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Canadian Authors : Cultural perspectives __Angela's Ashes__ by Frank McCourt (Ireland, 1930s) __Divisadero__ By Michael Ondaatje 5  __Late Nights On Air__ By Elizabeth Hay ** Canadian Authors And Their Novels ** **__ Richler, Mordecai __** The Acrobats Joshua Then And Now A Choice Of Enemies *The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz *The Incomparable Atuk *St. Urbain's Horseman Son Of A Smaller Hero ** __ Laurence, Margaret __ ** *This Side Of Jordan *The Stone Angel *A Jest Of God *The Fire Dwellers *A Bird In The House *The Diviners Prophet's Camel Bell Heart Of A Stranger Jason's Quest Morning In The Burned House What The Crow Said Gone Indian But We Are Exiles Words Of My Roaoring The Studhorse Man Badlands The Double Hook **__ Wiseman, Adele __** The Sacrifice Crackpot **__ Blais, Marie Claire __** A Season In The Life Of Emmanuel Coming Through Slaughter *Running In The Family The Man With Seven Toes In The Skin Of A Lion The Collected Works Of Billy The Kid The English Patient Such A Long Journey *A Fine Balance Away *The Stone Carvers
 * Joy Kogawa (Itsuka)
 * [|Ann-Marie MacDonald]
 * [|Rohinton Mistry] (__Such a Long Journey,__ __A Fine Balance)__
 * [|Michael Ondaatje]
 * [|Shyam Selvadurai]
 * Lawrence Hill (__Book of Negores__, __Any Known Blood)__
 * Anosh Irani (__The Song of Kahunsha)__
 * MG Vassanji (__Book of Secrets)__
 * Bernice Morgan (__Random Passage)__
 * Wiebe, Rudy __(A Discovery of Strangers) - Arctic Landscape / love story__
 * __Kroetsch, Robert (__** **__ Alberta __****__ ) __**
 * __Ondaatje, Michael__**
 * __Mistry, Rohinton__**
 * __Urquhart, Jane__**

[|Wayson Choy], //[|The Jade Peony]//  [|Yan Li], //Daughters Of The Red Land//  ** 1996 **
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l21 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**[|Anne Michaels], //[|Fugitive Pieces]//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Ann-Marie Macdonald], //[|Fall On Your Knees]//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Yann Martel], //[|Self]//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Shani Mootoo], //Cereus Blooms At Night//

<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> 1997

 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**[|Margaret Gibson], //Opium Dreams//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Kim Echlin], //Elephant Winter//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Allan Levine], //The Blood Libel//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Rabindranath Maharaj], //Homer In Flight//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Tim Wynveen], //Angel Falls//

<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> 1998

 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l20 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**[|André Alexis], //Childhood//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l20 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Loranne Brown], //The Handless Maiden//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l20 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Tomson Highway], //[|Kiss Of The Fur Queen]//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l20 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Terry Jordan], //Beneath That Starry Place//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l20 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Kerri Sakamoto], //The Electrical Field//

<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> 1999
The 1999 Award Was A Tie.
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**[|David Macfarlane], //[|Summer Gone]//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">** [|Alan R. Wilson], //Before The Flood//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Alistair Macleod], //[|No Great Mischief]//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Donna Morrissey], //Kit's Law//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Jim Munroe], //Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Catherine Simmons-Niven], //A Fine Daughter//

<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> 2000

 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">** [|Eva Stachniak], //Necessary Lies//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Steven Galloway], //Finnie Walsh//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Scott Gardiner], //The Dominion Of Wyley Mcfadden//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Susan Juby], //Alice, I Think//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Lydia Kwa], //This Place Called Absence//

<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> 2001

 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**[|Michael Redhill], //Martin Sloane//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Dennis Bock], //The Ash Garden//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Michael Crummey], //River Thieves//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Marina Endicott], //Open Arms//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Linda Little], //Strong Hollow//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Elizabeth Ruth], //Ten Good Seconds Of Silence//

<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> 2002

 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**[|Mary Lawson], //Crow Lake//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Christy Ann Conlin], //Heave//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Aislinn Hunter], //Stay//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Clint Hutzulak], //The Beautiful Dead End//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Michael V. Smith], //Cumberland//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Marnie Woodrow], //Spelling Mississippi//

<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> 2003

 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo10; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**[|Michel Basilières], //Black Bird//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo10; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Clayton Bailey], //The Expedition//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo10; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|John Bemrose], //The Island Walkers//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo10; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Lisa Grekul], //Kalyna's Song//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo10; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Bettina Von Kampen], //Blue Becomes You//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo10; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Edeet Ravel], //Ten Thousand Lovers//

<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> 2004

 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo11; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**[|Colin Mcadam], //Some Great Thing//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo11; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|David Elias], //Sunday Afternoon//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo11; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">[|Ibi Kaslik], //Skinny//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo11; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Arthur Motyer], //What's Remembered//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo11; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Catherine Safer], //Bishop's Road//

<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> 2005
<span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">**[|Joseph Boyden], //[|Three Day Road]//**
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Howard Akler], //The City Man//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Brenda Brooks], //Gotta Find Me An Angel//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Anne Giardini], //The Sad Truth About Happiness//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer], //The Nettle Spinner//
 * <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo12; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> [|B. Glen Rotchin], //The Rent Collector//



** [|The Governor General's Award]* ** - Fiction (English) ** [|Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel Award] ** (Note: Formerly Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award, Formerly W.H. Smith Books In Canada Award) ** [|Canadian Authors Association Awards] ** - Fiction ** [|The Scotiabank Giller Prize*] ** - Canadian Novel Or Short-Story Collection, In Honour Of Critic Doris Giller ** Georges Bugnet Award For Fiction (Novel)* - [|Writers Guild Of Alberta] ** Canadian **//Where War Lives//** **by Paul Watson (2007)** The author is the Toronto-born foreign correspondent who snapped the famous 1993 photo of U.S. Army Sgt. William Cleveland’s mutilated corpse being dragged in triumph by a howling mob through Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu. The book is Watson’s account—utterly devoid of self-pity and propelled by an apocalyptic mix of anger, guilt and post-traumatic shock—of the interplay of media and war, and his life since Cleveland’s spirit spoke to him that day: “If you do this, I will own you forever.” **//The Book of Negroes//** **by Lawrence Hill (2007)** Hill has been a very good writer for a long time, a graceful and understated stylist whose latest novel turns a thorny historical subject—the fate of black slaves who served the British in the American Revolution only to be shabbily betrayed in Nova Scotia—into a tour-de-force, an entire era personalized in one superbly realized female character. **//River Thieves//** **by Michael Crummey (2001)** Historical fiction is one of the dominant themes within CanLit, and there’s no more subtle and profoundly self-aware example than Crummey’s first novel. The weight of the extinction of the Beothuks, Newfoundland’s aboriginal population and the impossibility of truly understanding the past, hang over this story of mutual and tragic misunderstanding. <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">**//The Song of Kahunsha//** ( [|isbn 0-385-66228-9] ) is a novel by [|Anosh Irani], published in 2006 by [|Doubleday Canada] and in 2007 in the us by [|milkweed editions]. <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Set against the backdrop of the racial violence that engulfed the [|Indian] city of [|Mumbai] in 1992 and 1993, the novel depicts the life of Chamdi, a ten-year-old orphan forced to survive on the streets after running away from his orphanage in a quest to find his father. <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The book was selected for inclusion in the 2007 edition of // [|Canada Reads] //, in which it was championed by author [|Donna Morrissey].
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2005 - [|A Perfect Night To Go To China] - David Gilmour
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2004 - [|A Complicated Kindness] - Miriam Toews
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2003 - [|Elle: A Novel] - Douglas Glover
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2002 - [|A Song For Nettie Johnson] - Gloria Sawai
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2001 - [|Clara Callan] - Richard B. Wright
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2000 - [|Anil's Ghost] - Michael Ondaatje
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1999 - [|Elizabeth And After] - Matt Cohen
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1998 - [|Forms Of Devotion] - Diane Schoemperlen
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1997 - [|The Underpainter] - Jane Urquhart
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1996 - [|The Englishman's Boy] - Guy Vanderhaeghe
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1995 - [|The Roaring Girl] - Greg Hollingshead
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1994 - [|A Discovery Of Strangers] - Rudy Wiebe
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1993 - [|The Stone Diaries] - Carol Shields
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1992 - [|The English Patient] - Michael Ondaatje
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1991 - [|Such A Long Journey] - Rohinton Mistry
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1990 - [|Lives Of The Saints] - Nino Ricci
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1989 - [|Whale Music] - Paul Quarrington
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1988 - [|Nights Below Station Street] - David Adams Richards
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1987 - [|A Dream Like Mine] - M. T. Kelly
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1986 - [|The Progress Of Love] - Alice Munro
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1985 - [|The Handmaid's Tale] - Margaret Atwood
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1984 - [|The Engineer Of Human Souls] - Josef Skvorecky
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1983 - [|Shakespeare's Dog] - Leon Rooke
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo16; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1982 - [|Man Descending] - Guy Vanderhaeghe
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2005 - [|Some Great Thing] - Colin Mcadam
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2004 - [|Black Bird: A Novel] - Michel Basilieres
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2003 - [|Crow Lake] - Mary Lawson
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2002 - [|Martin Sloane] - Michael Redhill
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2001 - [|Necessary Lies] - Eva Stachniak
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2000 - [|Summer Gone] - David Macfarlane
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2000 - [|Before The Flood] - Alan R. Wilson
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1999 - [|Childhood] - Andre Alexis
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1998 - [|Opium Dreams] - Margaret Gibson
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1997 - [|Fugitive Pieces] - Anne Michaels
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1996 - [|Popular Anatomy] - Keath Fraser
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1995 - [|Funny Boy] - Shyam Selvadurai
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1994 - [|Losing Eddie] - Deborah Joy Corey
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1993 - [|The Afterlife Of George Cartwright] - John Steffler
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1992 - [|Such A Long Journey] - Rohinton Mistry
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1991 - [|Lives Of The Saints] - Nino Ricci
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1990 - [|The Missing Child] - Sandra Birdsell
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1989 - [|A Man Of Little Faith] - Rick Salutin
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1988 - [|The Butterfly Chair] - Marion Quednau
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1987 - [|The Life Of Helen Alone] - Karen Lawrence
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1986 - [|The Story Of Bobby O'malley] - Wayne Johnston
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1985 - [|Perdue: Or How The West Was Lost] - Geoffrey Ursell
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1984 - [|Willie: A Romance] - Heather Robertson
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1983 - [|Shoeless Joe] - W. P. Kinsella
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1982 - [|Obasan] - Joy Kogawa
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2006 - [|Three Day Road] - Joseph Boyden
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2005 - [|The Memory Artists] - Jeffrey Moore
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2004 - [|Hey Nostradamus] - Douglas Coupland
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2003 - [|Family Matters] - Rohinton Mistry
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2002 - [|Generica] - Will Ferguson
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2001 - [|A Student Of Weather] - Elizabeth Hay
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2000 - [|No Great Mischief] - Alistair Macleod
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1999 - [|The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams] - Wayne Johnston
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1998 - [|Landed] - Rita Donovan
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1997 - [|Fall On Your Knees] - Anne-Marie Macdonald
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1996 - [|Mother Love] - L. R. Wright
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1995 - [|Waiting For Time] - Bernice Morgan
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1994 - [|The Robber Bride] - Margaret Atwood
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1993 - [|The Innocence Of Age] - Neil Bissoondath
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1992 - [|News From A Foreign Country Came] - Alberto Manguel
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1991 - [|Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace] - David Adams Richards
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1990 - [|Running West] - James Houston
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1989 - [|The Victory Of Geraldine Gull] - Joan Clark
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1988 - [|The Color Of Blood] - Brian Moore
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1986 - [|What's Bred In The Bone] - Robertson Davies
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1985 - [|Not Wanted On The Voyage] - Timothy Findley
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1984 - [|Willie: A Romance] - Heather Robertson
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1983 - [|Shoeless Joe] - W. P. Kinsella
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo20; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1982 - [|Obasan] - Joy Kogawa
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2005 - [|The Time In Between] - David Bergen
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2004 - [|Runaway: Stories] - Alice Munro
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2003 - [|The In-Between World Of Vikram Lall] - M. G. Vassanji
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2002 - [|The Polished Hoe] - Austin Clarke
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2001 - [|Clara Callan: A Novel] - Richard B. Wright
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2000 - [|Anil's Ghost] - Michael Ondaatje
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2000 - [|Mercy Among The Children] - David Adams Richards
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1999 - [|A Good House] - Bonnie Burnard
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1998 - [|The Love Of A Good Woman] - Alice Munro
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1997 - [|Barney's Version] - Mordecai Richler
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1996 - [|Alias Grace] - Margaret Atwood
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1995 - [|A Fine Balance] - Rohinton Mistry
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo22; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1994 - [|A Book Of Secrets] - M. G. Vassanji
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2005 - [|Sons Of Liberty] - Marie Jakober
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2004 - [|Hunger's Brides] - Paul Anderson
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2003 - [|The Paperboy's Winter] - Tim Bowling
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2002 - [|The 52nd Poem] - Thomas Trofimuk
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2001 - [|Salamander] - Thomas Wharton
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">2000 - [|The Trade] - Fred Stenson
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1999 - [|A Fine Daughter] - Catherine Simmons Niven
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1999 - [|City Of Yes] - Peter Oliva
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1998 - [|The Healer] - Greg Hollingshead
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1997 - [|Some Of Skippy's Blues] - Margie Taylor
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1996 - [|The Rose Garden] - Kristjana Gunnars
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1995 - [|Bending At The Bow] - Marion Douglas
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1994 - [|Beneath The Faceless Moon] - Roberta Rees
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1994 - [|Keeper'n Me] - Richard Wagamese
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1993 - [|The Raising Of Voices] - Robert Hilles
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1992 - [|Spin Dry] - Greg Hollingshead
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1990 - [|Medicine River] - Thomas King
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1989 - [|Madeleine And The Angel] - Jacqueline Dumas
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1988 - [|Yes, Mama] - Helen Forrester
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1987 - [|The Woman Upstairs] - Mary Walters Riskin
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1986 - [|No Fixed Address] - Aritha Van Herk
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1985 - [|Sandinista] - Marie Jakober
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1984 - [|The Twelfth Transforming] - Pauline Gedge
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo24; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">1983 - [|Moses Migrating] - Sam Selvon ||

**//__A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali__//** (original [|french] title: //un dimanche à la piscine à kigali//) is the first [|novel] by [|Montreal] author [|Gil Courtemanche], originally published in 2000. Set in [|Kigali], [|Rwanda] , the novel deals with a love affair between an elder Canadian expatriate and a young Rwandan, [|aids] and the 1994 [|Rwandan genocide]. //__ Volkswagen Blues __// was one of the selected novels in the 2005 edition of //[| Canada Reads]//,. <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">** //__Volkswagen Blues__// ** is a road story about a [|writer] named Jack and his search for his long-lost brother, Théo. along the way, jack picks up a [|hitchhiker], a young [|Aboriginal] woman, named "La Grande Sauterelle" (because of her long, [|grasshopper] -like legs) and her [|cat] , Chop Suey. <span style="background: #f8fcff; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Together, they travel from [|Gaspé] to [|San Francisco], exploring the history of [|European] contact with the [|native people of the americas]. along the way they discuss [|language], the [|oregon trail] and their trip becomes a [|metaphor] for the history of the [|french] in [|north america]. Throughout the novel a number of interesting and entertaining characters pop up, including [|Sam Peckinpah], [|Saul Bellow] , [|Al Capone] and [|Auguste Renoir]. Other Authors – various cultures [|The White Tiger] recently won the Booker Prize. __[|The Kite Runner]__by Khaled Hosseini __One Hundred Years of Solitude__ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [|Eva Luna] by Isabel Allende. __ [|__The Bone People__] __ by [|Keri Hulme], about how the Maori are/were adjusting to life in New Zealandin the mid 1980s. __[|The Famished Road]__ by [|Ben Okri], set in Nigeria a bit later and is written completely differently, using something like magic realism to reflect how the characters interact with the spirit world.

__[|My name is Red]__ Orhan Pamuk, a modern-day Turkish writer - set in Istanbul in the late 1500s, and __[|Snow]__, set in modern-day Turkey __Memoirs of a Geisha__by Arthur Golden (Japan, 1930s & 40s)

__Shadow of the Wind__ by Carlos Ruiz Zafron (Barcelona, Spain 1950s)

__Mister Pip__ by Lloyd Jones (Bougainville- tropical island near New Zealand, 1990s)

__The Poisonwood Bible__by Barbara Kingsolver (The Congo- Africa, 1960s) __Persepolis__ by Marjane Satrapi (Iran, 1970s) __A Thousand Splendid Suns__ By Khaled Hosseini 2 (15) __Spook__ Country By William Gibson 3 (5) __The Assassin's Song__ By M. G. Vassanji 1 (4) __Standard Of Honor__ By Jack Whyte 6 (4) __On__ __Chesil__ __Beach__ By 8 (22) Ian Mcewan