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About the Author

FRANCES ITANI
has written sixteen books. Her novels include
Requiem,
chosen by the
Washington Post
as one of the top fiction titles for 2012;
Remembering the Bones,
published internationally and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller
Deafening,
which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, selected for CBC’s Canada Reads and published in seventeen territories. A Member of the Order of Canada and a three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Itani lives in Ottawa.

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PRAISE FOR FRANCES ITANI

“Frances Itani is an artist who understands what to include and what to leave out, when to whisper and when to shout…. Utterly absorbing.” —
Newsday

“The subtlety of Itani’s writing is nothing short of remarkable…. Her voice is pitch perfect…. Itani is unquestionably a prodigious talent.” —
Toronto Star

“Itani’s writing is clear-headed and sure-handed; her strong characters will not leave you.”
—Charles Frazier

“Small moments assume lyrical dimensions and significance, and here is where Itani’s true gift lies.” —
The New York Times

PRAISE FOR
DEAFENING

“There are scenes in
Deafening
which will never be forgotten…. A remarkable accomplishment.” —
Alistair MacLeod

“Some books just demand the adjective ‘wonderful.’ This is one of them.”
—The Times
(London)

“There’s not a single false gesture in
Deafening.
… There are passages here so beautiful that we can’t help straining to hear more.”
—Ron Charles,
The Christian Science Monitor

“Brilliantly lucid and masterfully sustained….
Deafening
has the integrity of an achieved artistic vision, the kind of power that is generally associated with the gracious, crystalline prose of Grace Paley, the flagrantly good, good lines of Robert Lowell and W.H. Auden’s poetry.”
—Kaye Gibbons

A
LSO BY
F
RANCES
I
TANI

FICTION
Requiem
Listen!
Missing
Remembering the Bones
Poached Egg on Toast
Deafening
Leaning, Leaning over Water
Man Without Face
Pack Ice
Truth or Lies

POETRY
A Season of Mourning
Rentee Bay
No Other Lodgings

CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Best Friend Trouble
Linger by the Sea

Credits

Cover design:
Skating Night, 1919.
National Photo Co.

Courtesy of Shorpy.com

Author photo: Norman Takeuchi

Copyright

Tell
Copyright © 2014 by Itani Writes Inc.

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EPUB Edition JULY 2014 ISBN 9781443406949

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