There wasn't much of a plot - basically each chapter was the story of a different person or, in some cases, two people, in one case a dog, who Pavlov knew. The main character was Pavlov who was the son of an undertaker killed in a bombing raid. The setting was placed in Beirut during the civil war. You will probably LOVE them or HATE them.(I'm closer to the hate side.) Reading reviews of his others makes me think all of his books are of the same sort of strangeness. authors Katie Kitamura and Scott Spencer.This was such a strange book - the 1st I've ever read by Rawi Hage.

Sitting on this year’s jury are Canadian authors Casey Plett, Kaie Kellough and Waubgeshig Rice, as well as U.S. The 14 nominees were chosen from 138 books submitted by Canadian publishers, organizers said. –Montreal-based Dimitri Nasrallah for his novel Hotline, published by Vehicule Press, a 1980s-set story about a woman immigrating from Lebanon to Canada. –Canada-born, Seattle-based Kim Fu for Lesser-Known Monsters of the 21st Century, a book of short stories that blurs the lines between the real and the fantastic, published by Coach House Books, –Andre Forget, who splits his time between Toronto and Sheffield, England, for his debut novel In the City of Pigs, published by Dundurn Press, about the struggles of creating art under the pressures of late capitalism. –Windsor, Ont.-based Andre Narbonne, for his novel Lucien & Olivia, a satire of the transactional nature of modern relationships, published by Black Moss Press. –Noor Naga, who studied in Toronto and lives in Cairo, for her novel, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English, about a romance bound up in the politics of empire, published by Graywolf Press. Calgary’s Suzette Mayr for her novel, The Sleeping Car Porter, published by Coach House Books, about a queer, Black sleeping car porter making a treacherous trip from Montreal to Vancouver in 1929. The book, published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Random House Canada, centres on an Indigenous queer narrator who ditches his doctoral dissertation to return to northern Alberta in hopes of writing a novel about his hometown. READ MORE: Billy-Ray Belcourt wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for ‘This Wound is a World’ The publishing giants still were well represented, backing several awards darlings hoping to add the Giller to their collections.īelcourt, a Cree scholar who became the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2018, is proving to be a cross-genre prodigal talent with his Giller-nominated debut novel A Minor Chorus. Independent presses punched above their weight on this year’s long list, pulling a collective eight nominations. Last year’s winner, Omar El Akkad, revealed the 14 titles in contention for the $100,000 honour at an event in St. Billy-Ray Belcourt, Sheila Heti and Rawi Hage are among the notable names on the long list for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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