Peace Tower is about the struggles to adjust to the first year of marriage. Mark Trecroci and Jennifer Drury, a young couple in love, learn what it means to uncover the reality behind the love. Living in Ottawa, under the shadow of the Parliament Buildings, the young couple go through the painful process of trial and sacrifice to achieve a working peace. F.G. Paci is best known for Black Madonna (1982), a powerful feminist novel. Peace Tower is his twelfth novel. It is also the seventh in the novel series that began with Black Blood (1991). Guernica has published Italian Shoes (2002) and Hard Edge (2005), the two previous novels. F.G. Paci is also the subject of a volume in the Guernica Writer's Series. Cover illustration by Hono Lulu {Guernica Editions}

F.G. Paci was born in Italy and grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He was the Elia Chair writer-in-residence at York University and has an honorary degree from Laurentian University. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, among them: The Italians, Oberon Press, 1978. (Signet Ed. 1980. French trans. La Famille Gaetano, Guernica, 1990); Black Madonna, Oberon, 1982; The Father, Oberon, 1984; Black Blood, Oberon, 1991; Icelands, Oberon, 1999. Italian Shoes, Guernica, 2002 (Italian Trans. Scarpe Italiane, Iannone, Italy, 2008); Hard Edge, Guernica, 2005; Peace Tower, Guernica, 2009; and The Son, Oberon, 2011. A book of essays on his work (F.G. Paci: Essays on His Work, ed. J. Pivato, Guernica) came out in 2003. He lives in Toronto with his wife and has one son.

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