This Hidden Thing
a novel
- Publisher
- CMU Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2010
- Category
- 21st Century, Amish & Mennonite
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920718865
- Publish Date
- Jan 2010
- List Price
- $19.5
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Description
This Hidden Thing is a lyrical and moving novel that offers one woman’s compelling, ordinary, and surprising life. Set in Winnipeg in the early 20th century, an immigrant woman learns what it means to keep a simple but painful secret.
About the author
Dora Dueck is the award-winning author of numerous books, articles, and short stories. Her novel, This Hidden Thing, won the 2010 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and What You Get At Home (Turnstone Press, 2012) won the High Plains Award for Short Stories. Dueck's novella, Mask, was also the winning entry for the 2014 Malahat Review novella contest. Dora grew up in a Mennonite community in Alberta, lived many years in Winnipeg, but currently makes her home in British Columbia.
Awards
- Winner, MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR
