Talon Books,Canada - Böcker

Explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, and asks what resistance to the tenor of these out-of-joint times might look like.

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Roughly based on The Trial by Franz Kafka, this black comedy changes the lead character to a modern business woman who finds herself accused of an unknown crime. The more she delves into the bureaucratic nightmare the more her ordered, little worl...

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When the feisty and rebellious Moragh (Moo) MacDowell meets the intriguing Harry Parker, she decides nothing will ever separate them ¿ and Harry has been running ever since. Moo is an unconventionally comedy of love and obsession. Cast of 5 women ...

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In a parody of a thriller novel, Harry the Hack, newly recruited literary spy, follows a mystery woman seeking wisdom and sanity.

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Astonishingly beautiful entrances into the personae of lost companions who reappear, animated by a voice in love with the music of their speaking.

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Behind our everyday, apparently rational preoccupations lie the traces of a longing for sanctity and redemption. In these haunting, often chilling short stories, Beverley Daurio maps the sub-atomic space of contemporary alienation: a woman celebra...

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It is a hot June day. A woman sits in a bar in Montreal's Main, waiting. Pushing down the disturbing scene (the police, a blanket) she saw that morning in the park. To focus herself, she tries to guess the stories of other women who come and go as...

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George Bowering and Greg Curnoe became friends in London, Ontario, in 1966. Bowering was a 30-year-old poet and university student and Curnoe was a 29-year-old painter who had dropped out of art school in Toronto to return to his place of birth. T...

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Loved and admired by readers for the grace of her language and the humanity of her vision, Sharon Thesen is one of Canada's finest and most respected poets. Thesen's poems express the pleasure and magic of a language fully transformed into visions...

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Set in landscapes which move from Detroit to China, Bethune is a study of how one man's vision may shape the world. In this play, Rod Langley attempts to chronicle the journey of Dr. Norman Bethune toward his final destiny. Bethune premiered at th...

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Morris Panych's brilliant new black comedy is structured around what happens when an extremely self-centred and shallow person finds himself, through his own errors and inattentiveness, in a life-and-death situation with profound and far-reaching ...

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Printed in two colours throughout and richly illustrated with over 600 photographs and duotones of these architects' most important works, Building the West tells the stories, discovers the hopes and aspirations, and celebrates the successes and a...

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Mend the Living is the story of a heart transplant, centred around Simon Limbeau, the boy whose heart is given, and his family. Taking place within exactly twenty-four hours, the novel traces the thrill of an early-morning winter surf session, the...

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A novel of grotesque realism following Rabelais.Unique narration seen through the eyes (and told in the voices) of some 70 animals, birds, and insects who observe the protagonist as he travels the continent.The novel reads like a road movie, a thr...

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It's hard to worry about the future when you're laughing at the hilarious absurdity of daily life. The days we live go by like slugs eating their way through leaves; everything changes, yet nothing changes, and the years soon accumulate. Who doesn...

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A Crossing of Hearts continues Michel Tremblay's Desrosiers Diaspora series of novels, a family saga set in Montreal during World War I.August 1915. Montreal is stifled by a heat wave while war rages in Europe. The three Desrosiers sisters  ...

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In this collection of long and serial poems, Stephen Collis returns to the commons, and to his ongoing argument with romantic poet William Wordsworth, to rethink the relationship between human beings and the natural world in the Anthropocene Era. ...

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Reading Sveva is award-winning author Daphne Marlatt's response to the life and paintings of Sveva Caetani, an Italian emigre who grew up in Vernon, British Columbia. Daughter of an Italian prince, leftist, and scholar of Islam, Sveva grew up with...

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Anahita Jamali Rad's debut book of poetry juxtaposes Marxist economics with pop culture lyrics, from FKA Twigs to Sonic Youth, tangling the "You & I" of relationships and social identification. She asks: How is it possible to communi...

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Comprising experimental poetry and prose, Friendly + Fire interrogates the male subjective experience of war and the gendered implications of camaraderie or "brotherhood" while aligning the seriousness of a war target with the frivolitie...

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Memory -- personal, familial, and societal -- is the central theme of this new play by Governor General's Award-winning playwright Francois Archambault. Translated by Bobby Theodore, this work follows a family's struggle with dementia. Edouard is ...

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They say hindsight is 20/20. They're not wrong. Ten years after their parents' death in a car accident, now-grown sisters Carmen and Manon are together for one of their rare visits -- and one of them is finally ready to confront their shared trage...

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False Starts presents a series of determining moments between two people stuck reliving the same scene over and over, but in unexpected ways and in different genres (from diary to dramatic dialogue, film script to sound installation). Their interd...

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How does the Canadian film industry measure up? Drawn from his own experiences, Vittorio Rossi's new comedy-drama exposes the bureaucratic institution that is the Canadian film industry, and we follow the character Michael Moretti, a veteran playw...

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When Frankie's dad dies, her mom, Ava, can't afford to live in the city anymore. The only asset they're left with is a farmhouse situated on twenty acres of land far outside of town. Ava decides to move there and start an Ayurveda clinic on the pr...

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During the groundbreaking Charles Edenshaw exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2013, poet Colin Browne found himself returning often to study three large argillite platters carved by the Haida master in the late 1800s. Produced several year...

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Award-winning author Meredith Quartermain's second novel and seventh book, U Girl, is a coming-of-age story set in Vancouver in 1972, a city crossed between love-in hip and forest-corp square. Frances Nelson escapes her small-town background to at...

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Empire of the Son is an original one-hander that blurs the boundaries between artistic disciplines and continents. It is a unique theatrical hybrid that combines cinematography with the raw immediacy of a performance piece intimately connected to ...

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A popular approach to the subject, not an academic book. Tomson Highway is not an academic. He is an artist who uses artistic language.Readers are not obliged to read the whole volume. Each page is like an entry in an encyclopedia. All one has to ...

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Taking its title from a phrase in a pop-up ad, Inspecting Nostalgia is R. Kolewe's second collection of poetry that brings together found text and fragments of various writers' work with scraps from his own journals.Kolewe's concerns with  n...

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