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The Peony Season

by (author) Sarah Klassen

Publisher
Turnstone Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2000
Category
General, Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888012487
    Publish Date
    Nov 2000
    List Price
    $16.95

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Nominated for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).
Journey from Zaire to Winnipeg to Ukraine and through the human spirit with an arrangement of characters and stories living in seasons but whose passages are perennial. Klassen's characters transcend their various
circumstances to explore personal experiences with an awareness of larger social issues-contemporary and historical.

About the author

Born in Manitoba’s Interlake, Sarah Klassen learned at an early age to appreciate both birdsong and nature’s silence. An accomplished poet and fiction writer, she has won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Journey to Yalta), the High Plains Award for Fiction (A Feast of Longing), the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry (A Curious Beatitude), and the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry. Her work has been nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. The Witternbergs is her first novel. Klassen lives in Winnipeg.

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