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Kalila
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<p><b>Finalist, George Bugnet Award for Fiction</b></p><p><i>Kalila</i> chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daughter's birth also heralds the news of her congenital heart condition. In this startlingly inventive novel, Rosemary Nixon braids light and darkness into a narrative chain pulled exquisitely taut.</p> <p>Through Maggie and Brodie's shifting viewpoints, the isolating impenetrability of hospital life, the mediation of physics, music, and family, Nixon propels the reader into unmapped emotional terrain where a shell-shocked family grapples with the horror, joy, and mystery of impermanence. The result is a spellbinding tale, provocative for the emotions and the intellect.</p>
Rosemary Nixon penned Kalila on two continents over fifteen years. She is the author of two previous short story collections, Mostly Country and The Cock's Egg, winner of the Howard O'Hagan Short Fiction Award. Nixon has taught creative writing at the University of Calgary, Chinook College, and Sage Hill Writing Experience. She was Canadian writer-in-residence for the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme and is now writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor.
- ISBN-13
- 9780864926524
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Imprint
- Goose Lane Editions
- Publication date
- 15 April 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 256
- Dimensions
- 178 x 127 mm
- Language
- English
