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  • Lost Province

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels he's an unnerving disappointment for many Moldovans, especially to the MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blue River Hotel

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    Series series Ploughshares Solos
    Sitting at a crossroads in the Guatemalan highlands, the Blue River Hotel has served as witness to the conflict and consequences of the country’s civil war. After a Canadian traveler passes through, he's forced to question the life he's chosen and to consider the effects of leaving his career and his fiancée behind for an uncertain future with a woman who has unexpectedly entered his life. ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD

  • The World of After

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    In a graduate student residence at Oxford University in the early 1990s, Kevin, an Irish Montrealer, meets Leon, a London Jew from a Communist family, and Alex, a Soviet defector’s son brought up in Toronto. When Alex begins to tutor a charming yet troubled upper-class English undergraduate, the dynamics in their conflicted three-way friendship culminate in Kevin and Leon playing a prank on Alex. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Blue River and Red Earth

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    These eleven short stories cover a wide range of territory - from Toronto to Cuba to Eastern Europe. And, wide-ranging over geography as they are, they also cover an array of characters and situations that can only be situated in the twenty-first century. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Assuming the Light

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    "Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974), the first Spanish-American prose writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, is both a pivotal and a representative figure in the development of the twentieth-century Spanish-American novel. Asturias's literary apprenticeship in the Paris of the 1920s and 1930s is arguably the most crucial and least understood period of his career. In forging his ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • A Green Reef

    The Impact of Climate Change

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    In spite of its disturbing implications, the impact of climate change on our physical environment can be difficult for us to understand or imagine. Moving from a memoir of a journey through an abundant yet fragile natural world to the daunting scientific evidence that climate change will lead to the degradation of nature and upheaval within society, this essay offers a lucid personal approach to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Report on the Afterlife of Culture

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. He weaves together daring literary criticism with front-line reporting on events such as the end of the Cold War in Poland and African reactions to the G8 Summit. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Sandino's Nation

    Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed distinct yet compatible visions of national history, anchored in a reappraisal of the early ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret

    by Ondjaki, Stephen Henighan ...
    Series Book 12 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Ondjaki was ranked by The Guardian in 2012 as one of their Top Five African WritersYoung writer (35), already the author of 12 books in 8 languagesKnown for his charming personality and charming young protagonistsLike Mia Couto, he is already a star-figure in Portugal, & Brazil, & his work is well-known in Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Italy, and GermanyHas spoken at Brown, Rutgers, Stanford, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Good Morning Comrades

    by Ondjaki ...
    Translated by Stephen Henighan ...
    Series Book 2 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework and telling tall tales. But Ndalu's teachers are Cuban, his homework assignments include writing essays on the role of the workers and peasants, and the tall tales he and his friends tell are about a criminal gang called Empty Crate ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala

    Edited by Stephen Henighan, Candace Johnson ...
    In 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict. Twenty years later, the new era of political protest in Guatemala is highly complex and contradictory: the persistence of colonialism, fraught indigenous-settler relations, political exclusion, corruption, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Country of Toó

    by Rodrigo Rey Rosa ...
    Translated by Stephen Henighan ...
    Series series Biblioasis International Translation Series
    A Crime Reads Best International Crime Fiction of 2023 • One of Crime Reads most anticipated LatinX Horror and Crime Fiction of 2023This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet.Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector and gang enforcer, has never had the chance to discern between right ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD