Shani Mootoo
1) Polar vortex
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Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a countryside town. What Alex doesn't know is that in moving, Priya is running from her pastfrom a fraught relationship with Prakash, who pursued her for many years. However, when Priya opens a Twitter account, in no time, Prakash discovers her and contacts her. Impulsively, inexplicably, Priya invites him to visit her and Alex, without ever having come clean with Alex about their relationshipor...
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Jonathan was nine when his mother Sid vanished from his life and it was not until he was a promising writer when he finally reconnected with his beloved parent. But the woman he'd known as "Sid" had morphed into an elegant man named Sydney. In the decade following this discovery, Jonathan made regular pilgrimages from Toronto to visit Sydney, who now lived quietly in his native Trinidad. And on each visit, Jonathan struggled to overcome his confusion...
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Giller Prize finalist Shani Mootoo offers a beautiful family saga about race, class, sexuality — and the corrosive power of secrets.
In Valmiki's Daughter, Giller Prize finalist and bestselling novelist Shani Mootoo returns to some of the themes she first explored in her breakout book, Cereus Blooms at Night, to offer a hugely entertaining and hypnotically beautiful family saga.The story centers on a wealthy Trinidadian family — in
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Two-timer I am, infatuated With the country in which I love Yearning in corners, around bends For the one I grew up in Shani Mootoo' s great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no record of where they were from in India or whether it was kidnapping, trickery, or false promises of wealth that took them to the Caribbean. In Oh Witness Dey! Mootoo expands the question of origins, from...
7) Cane Fire
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From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry.
Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves from Ireland to San Fernando, and finally to Canada. The reinterpretations and translation of this journey and its associated family history...
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