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Fiction Literary

Behind the Face of Winter

by (author) H. Nigel Thomas

Publisher
Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jan 2001
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920661956
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781988449432
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $12.99

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Description

A coming-of-age novel set in a Montreal in which immigrant youth totter on the edge of self-destruction and oblivion, in the face of brutal and racist police, an insensitive education system, and few prospects for the future. Thomas's language is spare, and his crackling dialogue and use of patois can compare with the best in Caribbean literature.

About the author

H[ubert] Nigel Thomas grew up in St Vincent and the Grenadines but moved to Montreal in 1968. He is the author of 11 books and dozens of essays. His novels Spirits in the Dark and No Safeguards were shortlisted for the Quebec Writers Federation Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize. Des vies Cassées (the translation of Lives: Whole and Otherwise) was shortlisted for le Prix Carbet des Lycéens. He holds the 2000 Professional of the Year Jackie Robinson Award, the 2013 Université Laval’s Hommage aux créateurs, and the 2020 Black Theatre Workshop’s Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. The Canadian High Commission to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States deems him to be one of Canada’s outstanding immigrants from St Vincent and the Grenadines. His books Behind the Face of Winter and Lives: Whole and Otherwise have been translated into French.

 

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Editorial Reviews

". . . a hard story, sometimes despairingly bleak, but it is also undeniably beautiful . . . worth reading-and rereading . . ." --Quill & Quire

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