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FictionThe Resurrection of Joseph Bourne orA Word or Two on Those Port Annie MiraclesJack Hodgins • Ronsdale PressNEWThis is a new edition of Jack Hodgins’ 1979 Governor General’s Award-winning novel that takes readersinto the bizarre and outlandish life of Port Annie on Vancouver Island: a town that keeps slipping intothe ocean and whose people have long been in a continuous slumber. Everything changes when a beautifulsea nymph is washed ashore from a freighter and incites fear in Joseph Bourne—once a world-renownedwriter and healer who becomes a bitter recluse. His death and resurrection allow him to regain his healingpowers. With Hodgins’ well-known, energetic prose and his comic characterizations, this novel combinesthe ordinary with the wondrous.Jack Hodgins is one of Canada’s leading fiction writers. His books are taught in universities, colleges, andhigh schools. In 2006 he received the Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lieutenant Governor’sAward for Literary Excellence in British Columbia, and in 2009 was appointed a member of the Order ofCanada. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.Key words: Canadian novel, Regional identity – Vancouver Island, PhilosophyISBN-13: 9781553802396paperback / 300 pp6 x 9 / $18.95March 2013StolenAnnette Lapointe • Anvil PressNEWRowan Friesen has made a career of drug dealing and small-time thievery. He lives a loner’s life on theouter reaches of Saskatoon, selling crystal meth to highschoolers and hawking his pilfered loot online.Shiftless and seemingly friendless, he is, at first glance, an unlikely and unlikable protagonist. But as Stolenunfolds, we learn the details of Rowan’s life: his well-meaning but self-absorbed mother, his mentally illfather, and a high school friendship both lustful and incendiary.Originally published in 2006, this is a new edition of the Giller longlisted novel.Annette Lapointe’s first novel, Stolen, was longlisted for a Giller Prize and was the winner of twoSaskatchewan Book Awards. She was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and was citedas a Globe and Mail Top 5 First Fiction choice. She is also the author of Whitetail Shooting Gallery (AnvilPress, 2012). She lives and teaches in Grande Prairie, Alberta.Key words: Canadian novel, Regional identity – Saskatchewan, Youth cultureISBN-13: 9781927380499paperback / 256 pp5.25 x 8.25 / $20.00February 2013The Tuner of SilencesMia Couto • Translated by David BrookshawBiblioasisNEW“Couto’s narrative tone, at once deadpan and beguiling, and his virtuoso management of time, place himalongside the best Latin American magic realists.” —Times Literary SupplementIn a big-game park in southern Africa, Silvestre Vitalício and his two sons live in almost-total isolation.Living in terror of his troubled father, Mwaninto must navigate the silences left behind by his dead motherand an unknown, war-torn modern world.Mia Couto, born in Mozambique in 1955, dropped out of medical school in his teens to join the struggleagainst Portuguese colonialism. When Mozambique became independent in 1975, Couto was namedDirector of Information in the revolutionary government. His novels have been awarded major literaryprizes in Mozambique, Portugal, Brazil, and Italy.Key words: Canadian novel, Regional identity – Mozambique, Diasporic, Ecocritical, Colonization &decolonization, War studies, Animals in literature, Masculinity, Fatherhood, Literary studiesISBN-13: 9781926845951paperback / 224 pp5.25 x 8.25 / $19.95February 2013Literary Press Group / Congress 2013 13