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Giller Lite: peek inside Canada’s six best books of the year
| October 29, 2014
On November 10, one Canadian author will become $100,000 richer when the winner of this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize is named at a black-tie gala at the Ritz-Carlton. Don’t know your Bezmozgis from your Toews? Toronto Life, Quill & Quire and the Giller are teaming up to bring you excerpts from each of the six finalists.
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
A tale of political scandal and personal revenge set in contemporary Israel
Tell by Frances Itani
Canlit staples are everywhere, here, from small-town isolation, to unhappy marriages and post-war depression
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
A fictionalized telling of the life of KGB spy and theremin inventor Lev Termen
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill
Child-star twins navigate life in gritty Montreal during the 1995 Quebec referendum
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
A funny and devastatingly sad novel about a writer’s relationship with her suicidal sister
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan
A psychologist returns to Canada to study survivor grief 20 years after the 1985 Air India bombing
