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Smuggled out of North Korea and published around the world, \u003ci\u003eThe Accusation \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a unique and shocking window into this most secretive of countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBandi’s profound, deeply moving, vividly characterized stories tell of ordinary men and women facing the terrible absurdity of daily life in North Korea: a factory supervisor caught between loyalty to an old friend and loyalty to the Party; a woman struggling to feed her husband through the great famine; the staunch Party man whose actor son reveals to him the theatre that is their reality; the mother raising her child in a world where the all-pervasive propaganda is the very stuff of childhood nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Accusation \u003c\/i\u003eis a heartbreaking portrayal of the realities of life in North Korea. 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The Accusation
A major publishing phenomenon, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea.
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By examining kinship in broader contexts, these frank, transcendent poems expose binaries that exist inside those relationships, then inspect and tease them apart in the hope of moving toward decolonial future(s). Bird’s work is highly concerned with how outer and inner landscapes move and change within the confines of the English language, particularly the “I” of the self, a tradition of movement that has been lost for many who don’t speak their Indigenous languages or live on their homelands. By exploring the landscapes the poet does inhabit, both internally and externally, Bird’s poems seek to delve into and reflect their cultural lineages—specifically Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis—and how these transformative identities shape the person they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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An absolute triumph of a debut.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eLiz Howard, author of \u003cem\u003eLetters in a Bruised Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Jessica Johns, author of Bad Cree","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBrandi is at the forefront of a wave of impressive new poetic talent emerging from Winnipeg, a group which includes Katherena Vermette, Hannah Green, and Chimwemwe Undi.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBrandi is at the forefront of a wave of impressive new poetic talent emerging from Winnipeg, a group which includes Katherena Vermette, Hannah Green, and Chimwemwe Undi.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"Drawing on their experience as a queer and Indigenous author, [Brandi Bird reveals], sharply and beautifully, the whiplash of coming of age in a time of contradiction—when reparations and profound systematic failures arrive on the same day.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"British Columbia Review","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Honest and transformative, these poems portray and reach beyond Prairie landscapes and wounded lives.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrairie Books NOW\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bird’s clear, forceful voice stacks imagistic snippets in formally inventive poems and leaves the reader to intuit and feel through how they all fit together in an act of engaged, attentive witnessing.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tyee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is Bird’s gospel … They transform prayer into poetry.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBritish Columbia Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e is a sophisticated debut work … Over and over again, time is suspended in the poems, and in this state of timelessness, we are able to transcend the limitations of western linearity and thought and to reconnect with relationships that have been stunted or lost. This is an invigorating, liberating read.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Brandi Bird’s first full collection must be read with imagination and heart … With each re-read of this powerful and innovative work, we see more.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— ARC Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_5":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"05","PrizeCode_5":"03","PrizeName_0":"Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry in English","PrizeName_1":"Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry","PrizeName_2":"League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award","PrizeName_3":"League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award","PrizeName_4":"League of Canadian Poets' Pat Lowther Memorial Award","PrizeName_5":"CBC Best Poetry of 2024","PrizeYear_0":"2024","PrizeYear_1":"2024","PrizeYear_2":"2024","PrizeYear_3":"2024","PrizeYear_4":"2024","PrizeYear_5":"2024","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2023-08-08","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Poems","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
The All + Flesh
Brandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.
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The Book of Fate
Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.
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The Break
A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize
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The Hand of Iman
In this award-winning debut novel, dreaming is a luxury that few can afford. And yet, however inadvisedly, Iman dreams.
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The Immortal Woman
A sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.
The Last Stampede
The Last Stampede is a surreal and genre-bending Métis-themed literary horror story dealing with grief, kin, and reckoning in a dystopian near present.
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A heartwarming play about the modern immigrant experience, realizing one’s dreams, and the unifying power of sport.
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The Outside Circle
A graphic novel about two brothers surrounded by poverty and gang violence trying to overcome centuries of historic trauma.
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The Place of Shining Light
A ride through war-torn and terrorist-controlled regions as three men race against time to take possession of a 5,000-year-old religious treasure.
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This astonishing collection heralds a major new talent.” —\u003cstrong\u003eMadeleine Thien, author of \u003cem\u003eDo Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“The closely observed characters in these stories amount to a poignant work of short fiction that could also be called a novel. Idman Nur Omar’s light touch insightfully connects the start of the 1991 Somali Civil War with the forms of life that grow from uprootedness and struggle into lasting shape elsewhere. This work, spanning continents and two decades, reveals a writer of incisive narrative vulnerability and asks us to read her intimate graces as a storyteller with mature tenderness. The distinctive pleasures of \u003cem\u003eThe Private Apartments\u003c\/em\u003e’ stories are waiting. Why not come in?” —\u003cstrong\u003eCanisia Lubrin, author of \u003cem\u003eCode Noir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Canisia Lubrin, author of Code Noir","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Private Apartments\u003c\/em\u003e absorbed me from the very beginning. Idman Nur Omar is a skilled writer, whose sensitive and stirring depiction of the lives of Somali immigrants calls to mind Jhumpa Lahiri's \u003cem\u003eInterpreter of Maladies\u003c\/em\u003e. I cared about these characters. I felt curious about them, gutted for them. I kept reading as much for the crisp, graceful writing and complicated, human portraits as to see what would happen next.” —\u003cstrong\u003eShashi Bhat, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Most Precious Substance on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Shashi Bhat, author of The Most Precious Substance on Earth","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Private Apartments\u003c\/em\u003e invites you into the secret lives of Somali women who dare to migrate towards safety, solitude, and sometimes joy. It suggests that even across oceans, behind closed doors, and in every corner of every room, someone, somewhere, is boldly (read: messily) giving life another shot. Idman Nur Omar is cool and delicate on a prose level and generous in her belief that your neighbour is actually your friend, your sibling, your cousin, and the person you come home to. There is almost nothing private about being this intimately connected. I mourn for these women; I feel their guilt and pleasures as much as I celebrate them, as they are, in many strange and uncomfortably daring ways, versions of myself.” —\u003cstrong\u003eTéa Mutonji, author of \u003cem\u003eShut Up You’re Pretty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Téa Mutonji, author of Shut Up You’re Pretty","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Idman Nur Omar’s remarkable debut tells stories of Somalis in the diaspora as they navigate complicated relationships, loss, and displacement with determination and wit. Omar writes with sensitivity, insight, and quiet assurance. The voices in these stories are sharp, vulnerable, and, at times, brash. A delightful read!” —\u003cstrong\u003eDjamila Ibrahim, author of \u003cem\u003eThings Are Good Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Djamila Ibrahim, author of Things Are Good Now","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn the vein of recent award-winning short fiction collections about immigrant diaspora experiences such as \u003cem\u003eHow To Pronounce Knife\u003c\/em\u003e by Souvankham Thammavongsa and \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e by Jack Wang, these stories revolve around immigrant characters, their families and children. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike David Chariandy’s \u003cem\u003eBrother\u003c\/em\u003e and Catherine Hernandez’s \u003cem\u003eScarborough\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a book that feels authentically Toronto. It is the Toronto of immigrants, living in the low-income housing that is both a sanctuary and a disappointment, contending with violence that seems almost inevitable. Yet there is also joy, love, friendship, and community in this version of the city. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Private Apartments\u003c\/em\u003e, the unique yet related stories of many women are woven together. Characters reappear, grow and change, and are viewed by other characters through different lenses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn the vein of recent award-winning short fiction collections about immigrant diaspora experiences such as \u003cem\u003eHow To Pronounce Knife\u003c\/em\u003e by Souvankham Thammavongsa and \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e by Jack Wang, these stories revolve around immigrant characters, their families and children. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike David Chariandy’s \u003cem\u003eBrother\u003c\/em\u003e and Catherine Hernandez’s \u003cem\u003eScarborough\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a book that feels authentically Toronto. It is the Toronto of immigrants, living in the low-income housing that is both a sanctuary and a disappointment, contending with violence that seems almost inevitable. Yet there is also joy, love, friendship, and community in this version of the city. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Private Apartments\u003c\/em\u003e, the unique yet related stories of many women are woven together. Characters reappear, grow and change, and are viewed by other characters through different lenses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Idman Nur Omar’s new subtle short story collection … begins in 1991 and features multi-layered stories of Somali women dispersed to Europe and Canada by [civil war]. … Fans of Elena Ferrante would do well to seek out this collection.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Miramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Much to both marvel at and puzzle over. … Idman Nur Omar presents a vibrant diasporic culture of resilient individuals whose significance isn’t premised on their interactions with those in their adoptive place, whether that’s Rome, London, Amsterdam, Dubai or Toronto.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoving linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants—despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeName_0":"Writers' Union of Canada Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2023","PrizeName_2":"Alberta Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2023","PrizeYear_1":"2023","PrizeYear_2":"2024","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2023-05-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoving linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants—despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Private Apartments
Moving linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants—despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland.
