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This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by celebrating the best emerging Black writers in the country, as selected by a jury comprising internationally acclaimed, award-winning writers David Chariandy, Esi Edugyan, and Canisia Lubrin. An eagle-eyed mother and a hungry child contend with the aftereffects of an unusual multi-course meal. Both the debts of the past and the promise of the future hover over two siblings as they debate what to do with an unexpected windfall. A pesky but beloved baboon looms large in the memory of a daughter whose family has been forced to move to a new town. Unclear boundaries and cheerful hypocrisy dominate a woman's whirlwind romance with a photographer. A schoolgirl contends with complicated emotions as she awaits the return of her long-absent mother. News of a hunter's death reverberates throughout his family, travelling across oceans and phonelines to trouble his cousin's already-shaky relationship. An office worker joins a lost grandmother on an unexpected pilgrimage. After years away, a woman journeys back to Jamaica—and back to the sister who refused to leave with her—stirring up insecurities, laughter, and wounds unhealed by time. All the instructions in the world cannot protect a family from the impacts of grief. The only Black girls in school experiment with what it means to be a lady when you're not yet a woman.

Som a l'estiu de 1991, en plena onada de calor. El Park és un complex d'edificis baixos, cases adossades i blocs de pisos de formigó on hi viuen milers de persones que lluiten per trobar feina, cuidar-se els uns als altres i qui dia passa, any empeny. Com molts dels seus veïns, Michael i Francis són fills d'immigrants: el pare va desaparèixer i la mare va venir de Trinitat amb el somni de convertir-se en infermera i, en canvi, combina tres feines, viatja en autobusos durant hores i torna a casa tan esgotada que de vegades no pot ni dormir. Mentre ella lluita per tirar endavant, els seus fills Michael i Francis aprenen els codis per sobreviure al Park. La història salta entre els anys noranta, l'adolescència de Michael i Francis, i el present, en què tot és més fosc i més trist, i Chariandy revela un món de violència i esperances frustrades en què els lligams familiars, delicats i indestructibles, són imprescindibles per a la supervivència. Quan al Park augmenten la violència i la presència policial, la sensació de fatalitat s'imposa i el lector sent bategar a la boca de l'estómac la precipitació de la tragèdia. Germà és una novel·la poderosa i intensa, desoladora, plena de vida, que explora la lleialtat i la força de l'amor fraternal, la fragilitat de l'existència, la raça i la identitat i la violència dels prejudicis i del poder.

'Elegant, wichtig, fulminant - das bewegendste Buch des Jahres.'The Guardian Francis und Michael sind Brüder. Sie werden in einem heruntergekommen Viertel am Stadtrand Torontos groß. Francis passt auf den jüngeren Michael auf, doch er kann ihn vor einem Messer, nicht aber vor den Vorurteilen beschützen, denen sie als junge schwarze Männer ausgesetzt sind. Die Realität freilich ist eine andere. Während Michael schüchtern erste Liebeserfahrungen macht, verfolgt Francis zusammen mit Freunden den Traum, im Hip-Hop-Business groß rauszukommen. Nach einem Konzert steht eines Nachts die Polizei im Desirea, dem Treffpunkt der Clique. Das passiert nicht zum ersten Mal. Aber diesmal eskaliert die Situation, es fallen Schüsse und den Schüssen nicht nur die Träume der jungen Menschen zum Opfer. Francis ist verstörend in seiner Zärtlichkeit, berührend trotz seiner Härte und ein eindringlicher Appell an unsere Humanität.'Chariandy erzählt von sozialer Segregation, von Wut und von tiefstem Verlust. Und trotzdem ist es die Zärtlichkeiten seiner Figuren, die uns beim Lesen den größten Schmerz bereitet. Das ist ganz großes Handwerk.'Shida Bazyar David Chariandy, Jahrgang 1969, wuchs in Toronto auf, heute lebt und unterrichtet er in Vancouver. Sein erster Roman,'Soucouyant', erhielt zahlreiche begeisterte Besprechungen und nicht weniger als elf Nominierungen für Literaturpreise.'Francis'ist sein zweiter Roman, der international hymnisch besprochen wurde, ebenso wie der bewegende Brief an seine Tochter'Was ich dir erzählen wollte'.

'Quite simply, one of the most beautiful books I have ever read.'--Aminatta Forna'Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble.'--Nafkote TamiratIn the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, acclaimed novelist David Chariandy's latest is an intimate and profoundly beautiful meditation on the politics of race today.I can glimpse, through the lens of my own experience, how a parent or grandparent, encouraged to remain silent and feel ashamed of themselves, may nevertheless find the strength to voice directly to a child a truer story of ancestry.When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask,'What happened?'David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. A decade later, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he writes a letter to his now thirteen-year-old daughter. The son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, David draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experience of growing up as a visible minority in the land of his birth. In sharing with his daughter his own story, he hopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identity and responsibility that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for a better future.

'A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life.'--Marlon James'Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope.'--Joyce Carol Oates, via TwitterWINNER--Toronto Book AwardWINNER--Rogers'Writers'Trust Fiction PrizeWINNER--Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991. One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. Honest and insightful in its portrayal of kinship, community, and lives cut short, David Chariandy's Brother is an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice.

A “soucoyant” is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders, cultures, and generations, a young man returns home to care for his aging mother, who suffers from dementia. In his efforts to help her and by turn make amends for their past estrangement from one another, he is compelled to re-imagine his mother's stories for her before they slip completely into darkness. In delicate, heartbreaking tones, the names for everyday things fade while at the same time a beautiful, haunted life, stained by grief, is slowly revealed. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.