Passing Ceremony
- 128pages
- 5 heures de lecture
Featuring a new introduction by Jim Polk, the debut novel from one of the first feminist writers in Canada is now available in a fresh A List edition to coincide with Anansi's 50th anniversary.
Helen Weinzweig Livres
Helen Weinzweig était une auteure canadienne reconnue pour son approche innovante et féministe de la prose. Ses œuvres, caractérisées par des formes expérimentales et des éléments métanarratifs, explorent les profondeurs de la psyché humaine et des constructions sociales. Elle employait souvent des structures narratives non conventionnelles, entraînant les lecteurs dans le tissu même du processus créatif. Weinzweig s'est imposée comme une voix importante de la littérature canadienne, avec des écrits qui continuent de résonner par leur perspective unique et leur audace littéraire.
Basic Black With Pearls
- 156pages
- 6 heures de lecture
A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley and Coenraad’s affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organization known only as the Agency. Their rendezvous take place in Tangier, in Hong Kong, in Rome and are arranged by an intricate code based on notes slipped into issues of National Geographic. He recognizes her by her costume: a respectable black dress and string of pearls; his appearance, however, is changeable. But something has happened, the code has been discovered, and Coenraad sends Shirley (who prefers to be known as “Lola Montez”) to Toronto, the last place she wants to go. There the trail leads her through the sites of her impoverished immigrant childhood and sends her, finally, to her own house, where she discards her pearls and trades in her basic black for a dress of vibrant multicolored silk. Helen Weinzweig published her first novel when she was fifty-eight. Basic Black with Pearls, her second, won the Toronto Book Award and has since come to be recognized as a feminist landmark. Here Weinzweig imbues the formal inventiveness of the nouveau roman with psychological poignancy and surprising humor to tell a story of simultaneous dissolution and discovery.