Vancouver Asian Writers

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Bellydancer
Bellydancer Stories By Lee, Sky (Book - 1994) FIC SS Available in some Locations

Annotation:Interweaving whimsical stories of enchantment with macabre plots, Lee flaunts the illicit and mocks the exotic.

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Dahanu Road
Dahanu Road By Irani, Anosh (Book - 2010) FIC Available in some Locations Holds: 1 on 18 copies

Annotation:With an inimitable mix of earthy humour and searing tragedy, bestselling author Anosh Irani gives us his most ambitious novel yet.

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Dogs at the Perimeter
Dogs at the Perimeter By Thien, Madeleine (Book - 2011) c823 T43d Available in some Locations Holds: 1 on 13 copies

Annotation:Dogs at the Perimeter is a beautifully realized and deeply affecting novel about the multiple lives we carry within ourselves. It is an unblinking portrait of loss and recovered humanity that confirms Madeleine Thien as one of the most exciting young novelists in Canada.

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A Garden of Anchors
A Garden of Anchors Selected Poems By Kogawa, Joy (Book - 2003) c821 K782g Available in some Locations

Annotation:The selected poems of award-winning writer, Joy Kogawa.

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Hopeful Monsters
Hopeful Monsters Stories By Goto, Hiromi (Book - 2004) FIC SS Available in some Locations

Annotation:In this first collection of stories, hopeful monsters are characters trapped between generations and cultures, desperately seeking to evolve, to escape their lives and even themselves. The stories are marked by Goto's attention to language and the ability to find beauty and solace in the strange and unknowable.

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Living under Plastic
Living under Plastic Poems By Lau, Evelyn (Book - 2010) c821 L366L Available in some Locations

Annotation:Living Under Plastic represents a major departure from the author's previous poetry books. It opens up to explore new subjects: family history, illness, death and dying, consumerism, and the natural world.

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Not Yet
Not Yet A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying By Choy, Wayson (Book - 2009) c823 C5521WC5n Available in some Locations

Annotation:Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reason for living.

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Valley Sutra
Valley Sutra By Gill, Kuldip (Book - 2009) c821 G4752v Available in some Locations

Annotation:Memorials and the yearning to re-create the past, permeate Valley Sutra, award-winning poet Kuldip Gill's new collection,

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A list of Vancouver Asian writers of poetry, short stories and novels.


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