![]() ![]() ![]() It signals the emergence of a supremely talented writer and storyteller, whose gifts for drawing memorable characters and for infusing place with a sense of wonder and immediacy are equal to the bold ambition of his novel’s title. Set in the 1950s and early 1960s, Childhood is daring, intelligent, profoundly moving, laced with humor, and tinged with longing. ![]() Henry Wing, a magus like figure, whose love of science and the imagination becomes an important legacy for Thomas. Mataf take him on a pilgrimage to Ottawa, where they live in the Victorian home of Mr. When he reaches the age of nine, his mother Katarina and a Mr. border, Thomas is abandoned by his mother to the care of an eccentric grandmother. Pastoral (2014) Fifteen Dogs (2015) The Hidden Keys (2016) Days by Moonlight (2019) Ring (2021) Standalone Novels In. Raised in Petrolia, a small town in southern Ontario near the U.S. It features Thomas Macmillan, a Canadian with ties to Trinidad, who pieces together from memory and from related stories the early years of his life. Childhood is Andre Alexis’s picaresque and stunning debut novel. A stirring meditation on the elusiveness of the past and humanity’s yearning for emotional closure. Following on the heels of Pastoral, Fifteen Dogs, The Hidden Keys, and Days by Moonlight, Ring completes Alexiss Quincunx, a group of five genre-bending. ![]()
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