Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

How to pronounce knife (book club kit - fiction) / Souvankham Thammavongsa.

by Thammavongsa, Souvankham, 1978-

View full image

McClelland & Stewart, 2020.

BOOK CLUB KIT FICTION THA

Immigrants -- Fiction.

Refugees -- Fiction.

Click here to learn more about borrowing Book Club Kits

Would you like to see what other titles we have available in Book Club Kits? Click here!

Holds must be placed via our Request Form

Information kit for "How to pronounce knife"

9780771094606 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Book club kit : How to pronounce knife

Bookclub kit : How to pronounce knife

10 copies, 188 p. ; 21 cm.

Holds can be placed via the Request Form on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available.

Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Souvankham Thammavongsa's "How to pronounce knife", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 weeks.

"With these startling stories, Souvankham Thammavongsa paints an indelible portrait of immigrants and refugees caught between cultures, languages, and values, and struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." In spare, intimate prose charged with emotional power and a sly wit, she immerses us in the lives of watchful children, lovelorn men, and restless women, illuminating their hopes, heartbreaks, acts of defiance, willingness to laugh at themselves, and, above all, their pursuit of a place to make their own. After a boxer loses his dream of becoming a championship fighter, he finds an unexpected chance at redemption while working at his sister's nail salon. A daughter becomes an unwilling accomplice in her mother's growing infatuation with country singer Randy Travis. When a seventy-year-old woman begins a relationship with her much younger neighbour, her assumptions about the limits of love unravel. As he watches his wife gradually drift into an affair with her boss, a school bus driver must grapple with what he's willing to give up in order to belong. And in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize-shortlisted title story, a young girl's unconditional love for her father transcends the fickleness of language. Told with tenderness, wry humour, and an unflinching eye for the sometimes absurd realities of having to start your life over again, How to Pronounce Knife announces Thammavongsa as one of the most striking voices of her generation." --Provided by publisher.

Winner of the Giller Prize, 2020.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

HPL Readers Services

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal