Product Description: When a Slovenian teenager sneaked into Austria in 1956, it was the start of an epic journey to Canada that almost ended before it started. First, young Ivan Letnik had to overcome cancer. Landing penniless the next year in Toronto, he worked his way up from golf-club dishwasher to greasy-spoon proprietor...read more

Product Description: Edward Lacey was one of the rare North American writers who intimately knew the Third World in the latter twentieth century. A superb speaker and translator of multiple languages, Lacey was a gifted teacher in Mexico, Trinidad, Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia...read more

Product Description: In this poetry collection, the myriad aspects of exile and belonging are explored in ways both witty and moving. The voices of the outsider and the voices of those who believe they belong are juxtaposed in an impassioned dialogue that resists conclusion...read more

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Product Description: Poetry. The poems in THE MATUSCHKA CASE represent the core of Fraser Sutherland's poetic preoccupations over several decades. They are enquiries into the nature of happiness, absent or present, deserved or undeserved. For Sutherland, happiness consists in the practice of art, and in often baffled attempts to understand the other...read more

Newly revised and updated, a handy, paperbound vocabularly builder and language resource features a single, easy-to-use alphabetical listing of main-entry terms with synonyms and antonyms, along with examples of their use in sentences. Original.

Product Description: "Telling their story, redeeming the demonic, Sutherland makes the sinister and the heartrending inextricable, and the banality of evil spellbinding."

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