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Fiction Humorous

Muskoka

by (author) Julian Samuel

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Apr 2024
Category
Humorous
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771838771
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771838788
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $13.95

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Description

A young man down on his luck meets the woman of his dreams in an adult education course. But this is no ordinary male fantasy: the man is a Pakistani-Canadian artist with a treatable recurrent cancer; the young lady is an Indigenous princess just returned from art school in Europe to her father’s glass summer palace in Muskoka. This romantic comedy, set in mid-Toronto and on Lake Rosseau, plays with the intersection of Indigenous, settler, and immigrant success stories against the background of mortality and the stars.

About the author

Julian Samuel, author of Passage to Lahore, is a filmmaker, writer, and artist who was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1952, and has lived in the UK, Toronto, and Peterborough. His films include Black Skin; White Masks, Dictators, Resisting the Pharaohs, Red Star over the Western Press, and he is the co-author of The Raft of the Medusa: five voices on colonies, nations, and histories and author of Lone Ranger in Pakistan, a book of poetry. His articles and essays have appeared in Arab World Review, Canadian Literature, and FUSE, among others. He makes his home in Montreal, where he completed an MFA and has taught at Concordia University.

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Editorial Reviews

Muskoka, Julian Samuel’s short new novel, takes in the deadly serious matters of colonization, displacement, ramped-up privilege and performative justice in Canada––but in the refreshing shape of a left-field rom-com that bristles with edgy humour. Centred around the lovestruck and quizzical Mohammed, the result is a prickly yet touching read that’s stuffed with laughs and provocations. Highly recommended.

Hein Marais, author of <I>The Job Crisis in South Africa and Beyond: The Case for a Universal Basic Income</I>

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