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Loop of Jade
Chatto & Windus

Loop of Jade

Sarah Howe

*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015* There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love – what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, this is an enthralling exploration of self and place, of migration and inheritance, and introduces an unmistakable new voice in British poetry.

T. S. Eliot Prize
Aickman's Heirs
Undertow Publications

Aickman's Heirs

Brian Evenson, Helen Marshall, John Langan, Lisa Tuttle, Michael Cisco, Nina Allan, Nadia Bulkin, Richard Gavin, Lynda E. Rucker, Simon Strantzas

***Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award*** ***Finalist for the World Fantasy Award*** ***Finalist for the British Fantasy Award*** 'The Dying Season,' by Lynda E. Rucker, Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. 'Seven Minutes in Heaven,' by Nadia Bulkin, Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. 'Underground Economy,' by John Langan, reprinted in the Best Horror of the Year. 'Underground Economy,' by John Langan, reprinted in the Best New Horror. 'The Lake,' by Daniel Mills, reprinted in Best New Horror. 'Seaside Town,' by Brian Evenson, reprinted in Year's Best Weird Fiction. 'Seven Minutes in Heaven,' by Nadia Bulkin, reprinted in Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. 'Camp,' by David Nickle, reprinted in Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Edited by Simon Strantzas, "Aickman's Heirs" is an anthology of strange, weird tales by modern visionaries of weird fiction, in the milieu of Robert Aickman, the master of strange and ambiguous stories. Editor and author Strantzas, an important figure in Weird fiction, has been hailed as the heir to Aickman's oeuvre, and is ideally suited to edit this exciting volume. Featuring all-original stories from Brian Evenson, Lisa Tuttle, John Langan, Helen Marshall, Michael Cisco, and others.

Shirley Jackson Awards
忘れられた巨人
早川書房

忘れられた巨人

カズオ イシグロ, Kazuo Ishiguro, 土屋 政雄

A fable-like novel set in an England-evoking past that meditates on memory, forgetting, and reconciliation.

Nobel Prize in Literature
Hellgoing: Stories
House of Anansi Press

Hellgoing: Stories

Lynn Coady

A short story collection that captures the lonely, strange lives of people in a small town.

Giller Prize
Fifteen Dogs
Coach House Books

Fifteen Dogs

André Alexis

Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize "[Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read … A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." – Kirkus Reviews "This might be the best set-up of the spring." – The Globe & Mail "André Alexis has established himself as one of our preeminent voices." – Toronto Star — I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence. — I'll wager a year's servitude, answered Apollo, that animals – any animal you like – would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they were given human intelligence. And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto vet­erinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks. André Alexis's contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks. André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood , won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His other previous books include Asylum , Beauty and Sadness , Ingrid & the Wolf and, most recently, Pastoral , which was also nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was named a Globe and Mail Top 100 book of 2014.

Giller Prize
死者の代弁者［新訳版］（上） (ハヤカワ文庫ＳＦ)
早川書房

死者の代弁者［新訳版］（上） (ハヤカワ文庫ＳＦ)

オースン・スコット・カード, 鷲尾直広, 中原尚哉

A sequel to Ender’s story in which the adult Ender travels to a new world as a 'Speaker' and tells the stories of the dead. It explores misunderstanding with an alien species, cultural friction, atonement, reconciliation, and deep questions of ethics and religion.

Hugo Award