{"product_id":"soucouyantbooks","title":"Soucouyant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eBy the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBrother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nFinalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\r\nLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize\u003cbr\u003e \r\nLonglisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWinner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Literary Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\r\nShortlisted for Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)\u003cbr\u003e\r\nShortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book\u003cbr\u003e\r\nShortlisted for City of Toronto Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Amazon.ca\/Books In Canada First Novel Award\u003cbr\u003e\r\nShortlisted for the ReLit Award, Best Novel\u003cbr\u003e\r\nShortlisted for One Book, One Vancouver\u003cbr\u003e\r\nFeatured on CBC's \"Between the Covers\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nA soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This extraordinary first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\nThe son returns after two years to confront his mother but also a young woman who now mysteriously occupies the house. In his desire to atone for his past and live anew, he is compelled to imagine his mother's life before it all slips into darkness--her arrival in Canada during the early sixties, her childhood in Trinidad during World War II, and her lurking secret that each have tried to forget.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\nLuminously poetic, \u003ci\u003eSoucouyant\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival of a major new literary talent in Canada.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eGerman-language rights sold to Suhrkamp\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eFrench-language rights sold to Editions Zoe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eAlbanian-language rights sold to Shkupi (Macedonia)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eFilm option sold to Ian Harnarine and Jon Malkiel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chariandy, David","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47500656443616,"sku":"","price":11.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_db76cba9-70ba-48a9-83b4-b6903131c5fe.jpg?v=1750002128","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/soucouyantbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}