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Giller Prize ぎらーしょう

Edition 26 (2019)

English-language works (including translations)Canadian literatureFiction (novels, short story collections)

Winners

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Ian Williams いあん・うぃりあむず Winner

From the chance meeting of Felicia and Edgar, forms of family emerge that cannot be explained by blood alone. Migration, class, race, and parent-child relationships intertwine as people remake one another within suburban life.

Family is not merely born; it is remade again and again through collisions of relationship.

448 pages
familymigrationraceclasssuburbia