Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
To Sweep the Light
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2013
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770894297
- Publish Date
- Jun 2013
- List Price
- $1.99
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Description
A new short story by award-winning author Pasha Malla.
Set during the summer in a small town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, To Sweep the Light is a love story about solitude and companionship, proximity and distance, and the quest for intimacy between a boy and a girl.
About the author
Pasha Malla's first collection of short stories, The Withdrawal Method, a Globe and Mail and National Post book of the year, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Trillum Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize (Best First Book, Canada & Caribbean) and longlisted for the Giller Prize. A frequent contributor to The Walrus, the Globe and Mail and CBC radio, he is also the winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, two National Magazine Awards for humour writing, and has twice had stories included in the Journey Prize anthology. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, grew up in London, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. His most recent novel is People Park from House of Anansi.