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1	Kamouraska more books like this by Anne Herbert, Anne Hebert, Sheila Fischman (Translator) Translated into seven languages, Kamouraska won the Paris book prize and was made into a landmark feature film by Claude Jutra. A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.57! \| first editions
2	Hockey Sweater more books like this by Roch Carrier, Sheldon Cohen (Illustrator), Sheila Fischman (Translator) With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches more books like this by Gaetan Soucy, Sheila Fischman (Translator) Two teenage siblings huddle together in an old mansion, recovering from the death of their insanely domineering father. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The man in the closet more books like this by Roch Carrier, Sheila Fischman see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Vaudeville! more books like this by Gaetan Soucy, Sheila Fischman (Translator) In "Vaudeville!" no one is who he or she appears, including Xavier, a seventeen-year-old apprentice demolition man who claims to be an immigrant from Hungary. After Xavier falls into a hole, he suffers bizarre humiliations and eventually loses his job. Soon he and his singing frog are hired to perform in a vaudeville show in which violence and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Prayers of a Young Man more books like this by Roch Carrier, Sheila Fischman see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The end by Roch Carrier, Sheila Fischman see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
8	For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic more books like this by Georges E Sioui, Sheila Fischman (Translator), Bruce G Trigger (Foreword by) This is a presentation of guidelines for the study of native history from an Amerindian perspective. Georges Sioui, a Huron Indian, argues that these guidelines must be respected if the self-image and social ethics of native people are to be understood and preserved. He also shows how they provide a means of greatly improving the way native and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant more books like this by Michel Tremblay, Sheila Fischman (Editor) Tremblay's first novel is an affectionate and funny chronicle of the lives of a family in its community. "A comic tour de force covering one day in the life of a Montreal street". -- U of T Quarterly see all copies from $2.45! new only from $19.26! \| first editions
10	Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad more books like this by Naim Kattan, Sheila Fischman (Translator) In "Farewell, Babylon," Naim Kattan takes readers into the heart of exotic mid-19th-century Baghdad's then-teeming Jewish community. Jews had lived in Iraq for 25 centuries, long before the time of Christ or Muhammad, but anti-Semitism and nationalism were on the rise. In this beautifully written memoir, a young boy comes of age and describes his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.81! \| SVS
11	Atonement more books like this by Gaetan Soucy, Sheila Fischman (Translator) Twenty years after being chased out of his tiny village, Louis Bapaume returns to Saint-Aldor to make amends. Over the course of one bright winter solstice, Bapaume confronts old neighbors and villagers and encounters haunting figures he can't quite recognize. But there's only one person he seeks: the twin girl he taught to read music and to whom ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $9.61! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Sound of Living Things more books like this by Elise Turcotte, Sheila Fischman (Translator) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	Mercury Under My Tongue more books like this by Sylvain Trudel, Sheila Fischman (Translator) Frederick Langlois could be that geeky 17-year-old found in every high school -- the one who closely clutches his poem-filled notebook, who feels a bit too deeply, who's just a little too old for his years. But Frederick isn't in high school. He's in a hospital ward with other critically ill adolescents, dying of bone cancer. "Mercury Under the ... see all copies from $3.41! new only from $6.50! \| SVS
14 view cover	The First Quarter of the Moon more books like this by Michel Tremblay, Sheila Fischman (Translator) The fifth novel in the Plateau Mont Royal series juxtaposes the childhood experiences of the fat woman's son and his gifted cousin. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	A Suit of Light more books like this by Anne Hebert, Sheila Fischman (Translator) Anne Hebert's final novel, originally published in French as Un Habit de lumiere, is a story of dangerous dreams come true. Rose-Alba Almevida, her husband Pedro, and her son Miguel live by modest means in a Paris apartment, but each, in their way, dreams of returning home to Spain to reclaim the honor and identity stripped of them by the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Basketball Player more books like this by Roch Carrier, Sheldon Cohen Away from home and off to a seminary boarding school for the first time, Roch finds he is expected to play basketball. It's seen as an important tool for facing life's challenges if he is "to go very far on the road of life". And so begins the latest in Roch's sports misadventures as fear of failure sends him running into the night and terrors ... see all copies from $2.77! new only from $4.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	These festive nights more books like this by Marie-Claire Blais, Sheila Fischman (Translator) Originally published in French under the title Soifs, critics around the world called this book a tour de force, comparing Blais with Virginia Woolf, Dante, Sophocles, and Shakespeare. This swirling, baroque fresco captures the mood of our apocalyptic age, rendering it in powerfully evocative prose. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.01! \| signed copies
18 view cover	The Duchess and the Commoner more books like this by Michel Tremblay, Sheila Fischman (Translator) This is the third volume in Michel Tremblay's Chronicles of the Plateau Mount-Royal. see all copies from $5.09! new only from $8.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	Affairs of Art more books like this by Lise Bissonnette, Sheila Fischman (Translator) "Affairs of Art" tells the story of a man, born from nothing in Montreal's easy end, who attains a yearning for knowledge, experience and love that lead him to prominence in art and ultimately to death. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Making Room more books like this by Micahel Tremblay, Sheila Fischman, Michel Tremblay (Translator) Canadian playwright Michel Tremblay has written a novel of modern gay romance, which concerns the problems encountered when Mathieu, a fusty academic set in his ways, is forced to make room in his life for his lover's son. see all copies from $1.99!
21	La Guerre, Yes Sir! by Sheila Fischman (Translator), Roch Carrier see all copies from $1.99!
22 view cover	The Black Notebook more books like this by Michel Tremblay, Sheila Fischman (Translator) In the heart of the Latin Quarter, meeting place of marginal characters of all sorts, Celine Poulin, who was born a midget, works the night shift at a cheap and popular restaurant. Hanging out with a theater company in her off hours, Celine sees opening before her a world where it is not only possible, but even desirable to pretend. When the ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Next Episode more books like this by Hubert Aquin, Sheila Fischman (Translator), Jean-Louis Major (Afterword by) First published in l965, Hubert Aquin's "Next Episode" is a disturbing and yet deeply moving novel of dissent and distress. As he awaits trial, a young separatist writes an espionage story in the psychiatric ward of the Montreal prison where he has been detained. Sheila Fischman's bold new translation captures the pulsating life of Aquin's complex ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.23!
24 view cover	The Blue Circus more books like this by Jacques Savoie, Sheila Fischman (Translator) In "The Blue Circus", Jacques Savoie takes us into a world in which music harmonizes with the poetry of Baudelaire. In the same breath he transports us beyond words into a place where the memories that we think we share, can be transformed as well into dreams. Hugo has gone back to Montreal. He hasn't seen Marthe, his half-sister, for ten years. ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.93! \| first editions
25 view cover	Burden of Dreams more books like this by Anne Herbert, Anne Hebert, Sheila Fischman (Translator) As Julien seeks liberation in Paris, he is haunted by the memories of a fateful autumn on the banks of the Duchesnay River near Quebec City. Until then, his reclusive childhood had been centered on his protective mother, Pauline, and his sister, Helene. A wild and beautiful young woman captivates both Julien and Helene. She promises them freedom, ... see all copies from $2.63! new only from $12.95! \| first editions

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