The 2011 Scotiabank Giller prize long list
was announced September 6.
In the following list, click on the book titles and scroll down the library catalogue page to see the book summary.
David Bezmozgis
The Free World
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Clark Blaise
The Meagre Tarmac
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Michael Christie
The Beggar's Garden
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Lynn Coady
The Antagonist
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Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers
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Readers' Choice winner
Myrna Dey
Extensions
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Esi Edugyan
Half-Blood Blues
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Marina Endicott
The Little Shadows
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Zsuzsi Gartner
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
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Genni Gunn
Solitaria
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Pauline Holdstock
Into the Heart of the Country
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Wayne Johnston
A World Elsewhere
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Dany Laferrière (trans. David Homel)
The Return
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Suzette Mayr
Monoceros
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Michael Ondaatje
The Cat's Table
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Guy Vanderhaeghe
A Good Man
* * *
Alexi Zentner
Touch
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Check out the New Releases page on the Regina Public Library website.
Here is one of the books mentioned in the New Fiction Releases:
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Summary: A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
Publisher's Weekly review:
Patchett (Bel Canto) is a master storyteller who has an entertaining habit of dropping ordinary people into extraordinary and exotic circumstances to see what they're made of. In this expansive page-turner, Marina Singh, a big pharma researcher, is sent by her married boss/lover to the deepest, darkest corner of the Amazon to investigate the death of her colleague, Anders Eckman, who had been dispatched to check on the progress of the incommunicado Dr. Annick Swenson, a rogue scientist on the cusp of developing a fertility drug that could rock the medical profession (and reap enormous profits). After arriving in Manaus, Marina travels into her own heart of darkness, finding Dr. Swenson's camp among the Lakashi, a gentle but enigmatic tribe whose women go on bearing children until the end of their lives. As Marina settles in, she goes native, losing everything she had held on to so dearly in her prescribed Midwestern life, shedding clothing, technology, old loves, and modern medicine in order to find herself. Patchett's fluid prose dissolves in the suspense of this out-there adventure, a juggernaut of a trip to the crossroads of science, ethics, and commerce that readers will hate to see end.
