{"product_id":"code-noirbooks","title":"Code Noir","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • WINNER OF THE 2024 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD \u003ci\u003e• \u003c\/i\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 SUNBURST AWARD\u003ci\u003e • Globe and Mail's \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of 2024 • \u003ci\u003eCBC\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024 \u003ci\u003e• The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Books of the Year So Far\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGroundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada’s most exciting and admired writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCanisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art—a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure is deceptively simple: it departs from the infamous real-life “Code Noir,” a set of historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. The original Code had fifty-nine articles; \u003ci\u003eCode Noir \u003c\/i\u003ehas fifty-nine linked fictions—vivid, unforgettable, multi-layered fragments filled with globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past. Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from futuristic fantasy to historical fiction, this inventive, shape-shifting braid of stories exists far beyond the enclosures of official decrees. This is a timely, daring, virtuosic book by a young literary star. The stories are accompanied by black-and-white drawings—one at the start of each fiction—by acclaimed visual artist Torkwase Dyson.","brand":"Lubrin, Canisia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Adult Fiction","offer_id":53751183638752,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8a7897fe-74e0-4ca0-8bae-452d4b53bec7.jpg?v=1785428781","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/code-noirbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}