About the Book

ELEGANTLY WRITTEN and profoundly moving, Frances Itani’s #1 bestselling, award-winning novel is a tale of virtuosity and power. Set during the Great War and the 1918 flu pandemic, Deafening tells the story of Grania, a young deaf woman who falls in love with Jim, a hearing man, in their small Ontario town. As the war explodes across Europe, Jim becomes a stretcher-bearer, and through the years of separation, he and Grania attempt to sustain their love in a world as beautiful as it is brutal. Frances Itani’s astonishing depiction of a world where sound exists only in the margins is a singular feat in fiction, a place difficult to leave and even harder to forget.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9781554684786
• ISBN 10: 1554684781
• Imprint: Harper Perennial
• On Sale: 05/26/2009
• Pages: 416
• List Price:19.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary

Frances Itani

Biography

FRANCES ITANI has written eighteen books. Her novels include That’s My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC’s Canada Reads. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa.

Other Works by Frances Itani

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  The Company We Keep

  By Frances Itani

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  That's My Baby

  By Frances Itani

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  Frances Itani Three-Book Bundle

  By Frances Itani