Canisia Lubrin: Code Noir, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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WINNER OF THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • WINNER OF THE 2024 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 SUNBURST AWARD• Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2024 • CBC 's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024 • The New Yorker 's Best Books of the Year So Far Groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired writers.**

Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art---a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure is deceptively simple: it departs from the infamous real-life "Code Noir," a set of historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. The original Code had fifty-nine articles; Code Noirhas fifty-nine linked fictions---vivid, unforgettable, multi-layered fragments filled with globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past. Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from futuristic fantasy to historical fiction, this inventive, shape-shifting braid of stories exists far beyond the enclosures of official decrees. This is a timely, daring, virtuosic book by a young literary star. The stories are accompanied by black-and-white drawings---one at the start of each fiction---by acclaimed visual artist Torkwase Dyson.