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- THE GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOKS OF 2021CBC BOOKS THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2021A fresh take on the romance novel from the Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen DogsFrom their first meeting, it was clear that Gwen and Tancred were meant to be together.
- About the Author: André Alexis is the author of Fifteen Dogs, which won the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads.
- 248 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Magical Realism
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOKS OF 2021
CBC BOOKS THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2021
A fresh take on the romance novel from the Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen Dogs
From their first meeting, it was clear that Gwen and Tancred were meant to be together. But, as we know, the course of true love never did run smooth.
Gwen's mother, intuiting that her daughter is in love, gives her a magic ring that has been passed down through endless generations of mothers and daughters. This ring grants its wearer the opportunity to change three things about her beloved. Like all blessings, this may also be a curse.
Ring turns the literary romance upside down and shakes out its pockets. It's a playful meditation on the past, on magic, on race, on honour, on faith, and, yes, on love.
Following on the heels of Pastoral, Fifteen Dogs, The Hidden Keys, and Days by Moonlight, Ring completes Alexis's Quincunx, a group of five genre-bending, philosophically sophisticated, and utterly delightful novels.
Review Quotes
"Alexis churns up a consistent supply of wry, pithy lines ('People fall out of respect as easily as they fall out of love') while maintaining the tension between the threat and hope that the ring offers ... [a] pleasantly unusual outing." --Publishers Weekly
About the Author
André Alexis is the author of Fifteen Dogs, which won the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads. His other books have won or been shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Trillium Book Award, the Commonwealth Prize, and the OCM Books Prize for Caribbean Literature. In 2017, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for fiction. Alexis lives in Toronto.