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Mercy Among the Children received effusive praise from the critics, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award and won the Giller Prize. It was named one of 2000’s best books, became a national bestseller in hardcover for months, and would be published in the US and UK. It is seen, however, as being at odds with literary fashion for concerning itself with good and evil and the human freedom to choose between them — an approach...
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It's 1988 and Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit. Into this shop arrives Ilse Brauchmann. Frank falls for this curious woman, but Ilse's reasons for visiting the shop are not what they seem. How can a man so in tune with other people's needs be so incapable of helping himself? This is a story about good, ordinary people who take on forces too big for them. It's about falling in love and how hard it can be. And it's about music - how...
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Jean Mason has a doppelganger. At least, that's what people tell her. Jean's curiosity quickly gets the better of her, and she visits the market, but sees no one who looks like her. The next day, she goes back to look again. With the aid of a small army of locals, she expands her surveillance. A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrants are eager to contribute to Jean's investigation. But when some...
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