
Scotiabank Giller Prize
The 2023 Giller Prize Longlist
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Study for Obedience
- A Novel
- Written by: Sarah Bernstein
- Narrated by: Sarah Bernstein
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs....
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Study for Obedience
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Sarah Bernstein
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-19
- Language: English
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Girlfriend on Mars
- Written by: Deborah Willis
- Narrated by: Landon Doak, Vanessa Matsui
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and 23 reality TV contestants from around the world are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by billionaire Geoff Task....
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Girlfriend on Mars
- Narrated by: Landon Doak, Vanessa Matsui
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-13
- Language: English
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Birnam Wood
- Written by: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival....
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Important story with outstanding performance
- By ultraLimitem on 2023-06-08
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Birnam Wood
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-03
- Language: English
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The Double Life of Benson Yu
- A Novel
- Written by: Kevin Chong
- Narrated by: Eric Yang
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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This fresh and unique work of metafiction follows Benson Yu, a writer, who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown....
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The Double Life of Benson Yu
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Eric Yang
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-18
- Language: English
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We Meant Well
- A Novel
- Written by: Erum Shazia Hasan
- Narrated by: Rishma Malik Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A woman is summoned by her charity to manage a crisis when her colleague is accused of raping a girl in an African village, causing her to question her identity, privilege, and allegiance....
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A moving story narrated beautifully
- By Heather Green on 2023-09-15
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We Meant Well
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rishma Malik Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2023-08-15
- Language: English
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The Islands
- Stories
- Written by: Dionne Irving
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island....
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The Islands
- Stories
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2023-02-28
- Language: English
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All the Colour in the World
- A Novel
- Written by: CS Richardson
- Narrated by: Frank Cox-O'Connell
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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The story of the restorative power of art in one man’s life, set against the sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the ’20s and ’30s, through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Sicily....
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All the Colour in the World
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Frank Cox-O'Connell
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2023-01-17
- Language: English
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We Have Never Lived on Earth
- Written by: Kasia Van Schaik
- Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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Balancing an ambivalent relationship to the past, and fear and hope for the future, Kasia's portraits of female interiority, immigrant identity, dislocation, and desire trace the transitions from girlhood to adulthood, grappling with the struggle to understand what it means to live on earth....
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We Have Never Lived on Earth
- Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-31
- Language: English
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Away from the Dead
- Written by: David Bergen
- Narrated by: Daniel Michael Karpenchuk
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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From Giller Prize-winning novelist David Bergen, an electrifying novel set in early-twentieth century Ukraine amidst the chaos of revolution....
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Away from the Dead
- Narrated by: Daniel Michael Karpenchuk
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-06
- Language: English
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Past Giller Prize Winners
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The Sleeping Car Porter
- Written by: Suzette Mayr
- Narrated by: Chris McPherson
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Baxter’s name isn’t George. But it’s 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he’ll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with “George.” On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days.
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Distorted sound - could not endure
- By Claire on 2022-11-12
Written by: Suzette Mayr
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What Strange Paradise
- A Novel
- Written by: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna.
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Perspectives on modern tragedies
- By Roberta W on 2022-01-30
Written by: Omar El Akkad
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How to Pronounce Knife
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- Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Narrated by: James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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A young man painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. In her stunning Giller Prize-winning debut book of fiction, Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all their pursuit of a place to make their own.
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So Disappointing
- By Len on 2020-11-22
Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
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Reproduction
- A Novel
- Written by: Ian Williams
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw, David Woodward, Michelle Winters
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia, a teen from an island nation, and Edgar, the lazy heir of a wealthy German family, come together only because their mothers share a hospital room. When Felicia's mother dies and Edgar's "Mutter" does not, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as Mutter's caregiver. While Felicia and Edgar don't quite understand each other, and Felicia recognizes that Edgar is selfish, arrogant, and often unkind, they form a bond built on grief (and proximity)....
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So disappointed
- By Onika Blackman-Lloyd on 2019-12-17
Written by: Ian Williams
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Washington Black
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black - an 11-year-old field slave - is horrified to find himself chosen to live in the quarters of one of these men. But the man is not as Washington expects him to be. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, inventor and abolitionist - whose obsession to perfect a winged flying machine disturbs all who know him.
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Awesome!
- By Louise White on 2018-11-13
Written by: Esi Edugyan
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Bellevue Square
- Written by: Michael Redhill
- Narrated by: Sarah Mennell
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it. Jean's a grown woman with a husband and two kids, as well as a thriving bookstore in downtown Toronto, and she doesn't rattle easily - not like she used to. But after two customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate.
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A Mind-Bending Must Read!
- By Amazon Customer on 2017-11-20
Written by: Michael Redhill
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The Sleeping Car Porter
- Written by: Suzette Mayr
- Narrated by: Chris McPherson
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Baxter’s name isn’t George. But it’s 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he’ll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with “George.” On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days.
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Distorted sound - could not endure
- By Claire on 2022-11-12
Written by: Suzette Mayr
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What Strange Paradise
- A Novel
- Written by: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna.
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Perspectives on modern tragedies
- By Roberta W on 2022-01-30
Written by: Omar El Akkad
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How to Pronounce Knife
- Stories
- Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Narrated by: James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A young man painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. In her stunning Giller Prize-winning debut book of fiction, Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all their pursuit of a place to make their own.
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So Disappointing
- By Len on 2020-11-22
Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
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Reproduction
- A Novel
- Written by: Ian Williams
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw, David Woodward, Michelle Winters
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia, a teen from an island nation, and Edgar, the lazy heir of a wealthy German family, come together only because their mothers share a hospital room. When Felicia's mother dies and Edgar's "Mutter" does not, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as Mutter's caregiver. While Felicia and Edgar don't quite understand each other, and Felicia recognizes that Edgar is selfish, arrogant, and often unkind, they form a bond built on grief (and proximity)....
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So disappointed
- By Onika Blackman-Lloyd on 2019-12-17
Written by: Ian Williams
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Washington Black
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black - an 11-year-old field slave - is horrified to find himself chosen to live in the quarters of one of these men. But the man is not as Washington expects him to be. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, inventor and abolitionist - whose obsession to perfect a winged flying machine disturbs all who know him.
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Awesome!
- By Louise White on 2018-11-13
Written by: Esi Edugyan
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Bellevue Square
- Written by: Michael Redhill
- Narrated by: Sarah Mennell
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it. Jean's a grown woman with a husband and two kids, as well as a thriving bookstore in downtown Toronto, and she doesn't rattle easily - not like she used to. But after two customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate.
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A Mind-Bending Must Read!
- By Amazon Customer on 2017-11-20
Written by: Michael Redhill
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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old dog ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings.
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
Written by: André Alexis
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Us Conductors
- Written by: Sean Michaels
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Locked in a cabin aboard a ship bearing him back to Russia and away from the love of his life, Lev Sergeyvich Termen begins to type his story: a tale of electricity, romance, and the invention of the world's strangest instrument, the theremin. He recollects his early years as a scientist forging breakthroughs during the Bolshevik Revolution and his decade as a Manhattan celebrity and reluctant Soviet spy.
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Perhaps not the topic for me.
- By MEF on 2020-05-18
Written by: Sean Michaels
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Hellgoing
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- Written by: Lynn Coady
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper and stranger shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can't seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day. Equally adept at capturing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, Lynn Coady is quite possibly the writer who best captures what it is to be human at this particular moment in our history.
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needs breaks
- By Adam Silver on 2020-06-14
Written by: Lynn Coady
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419
- Written by: Will Ferguson
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims. Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help".
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At first I wasn’t sure-but then I fell in love!
- By Travelmug on 2018-02-26
Written by: Will Ferguson
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Half-Blood Blues
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Kyle Riley
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Esi Edugyan won wide acclaim for her stunning novel Half-Blood Blues - a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In it, 83-year-old Sid Griffiths remembers his time during WWII playing in a Berlin jazz band called the Hot Time Swingers. When jazz music was denounced by the Nazis, Sid and his bandmates fled to Paris - a move that put Hieronymous, the band's brilliantly talented trumpeter, in constant danger due to his Afro-German heritage.
Written by: Esi Edugyan
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Late Nights on Air
- Written by: Elizabeth Hay
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hay
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and what brought each of them to the North form the center.
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Suprised I finished this...
- By CKH Vancouver on 2023-04-01
Written by: Elizabeth Hay
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Runaway
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- Written by: Alice Munro
- Narrated by: Kymberly Dakin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Three stories concern the same woman - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. In these and other stories Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as our own.
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Great stories, one quibble on good narration
- By Elizabeth Theis on 2018-09-18
Written by: Alice Munro
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The Polished Hoe
- Written by: Austin Clarke
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
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Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality.
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One of the worst audio books ever.
- By Lori on 2018-10-26
Written by: Austin Clarke
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Barney's Version
- Written by: Mordecai Richler
- Narrated by: Graham Abbey
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Barney Panofsky - Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur - is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival’s autobiography. Whether it’s ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950s in Paris, his tumultuous three marriages, or his successful trashy TV company, Totally Unnecessary Productions, he quickly proves that his memory may be slipping, but his bile isn’t.
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No Thanks
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-17
Written by: Mordecai Richler
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Alias Grace
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Sarah Gadon, Margaret Atwood
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember.
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Loved it.
- By Amazon Customer on 2017-11-16
Written by: Margaret Atwood
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A Fine Balance
- Written by: Rohinton Mistry
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
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Could not be better!
- By DB@Canada on 2018-07-28
Written by: Rohinton Mistry
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing: International Edition
- Written by: Madeleine Thien
- Narrated by: Angela Lin
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was 10 years old." Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations - those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women, Marie and Ai-Ming.
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Love loved this book!
- By Annette ANdersson on 2023-07-19
Written by: Madeleine Thien