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October
Fiction
Ingrid and the Wolf
André Alexis
Like all of us, Ingrid wants to belong, especially to a family. Now,
she does have parents whom she loves very much, but she has a
sense that there is more to her past than she’s been told. When
the opportunity presents itself for her to visit Hungary, Ingrid
takes it despite her parents’ objections.
What she finds in the old country is enchanting, gorgeous,
and terrifying. Her legacy is nothing like she expected. It is a
creature that is, by turns, loving and vicious. It is a wolf.
Ingrid realizes that she is the caretaker of her unusual
inheritance, like it or not.
Award-winning author André Alexis delivers his storytelling
skills to a new generation of readers in this, his first children’s book.
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ANDRÉ ALEXIS was born in Trinidad in 1957 and grew up in Canada.
His début novel, Childhood (1998), won the Chapters/Books in Canada
First Novel Award, shared the Trillium Award, and was shortlisted for
the Giller Prize and the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction
Prize. It has been published around the world. He is also the author of
an internationally acclaimed collection of short stories, Despair and Other
Stories of Ottawa (1994) – which was shortlisted for a Regional
Commonwealth Prize – and he has published a play, Lambton Kent (1999).
André Alexis lives in Toronto.
PRAISE FOR CHILDHOOD:
“The love affair between a young black boy’s wayward mother and a
man who may or may not be his father forms the intriguing
background to this enormously appealing first novel…An impressive
new voice.” –Publishers Weekly
PRAISE FOR DESPAIR AND OTHER STORIES OF OTTAWA:
“Readers will be rewarded by this collection’s extraordinary depth of
field and by its author’s vibrant intelligence.” –Branko Gorjup, Review
of Canadian Fiction
A haunting parable by
one of Canada’s finest
authors
ISBN 0-88776-691-9
US $8.95
CAN $12.99
fiction/family/multigenerational/girls
ages 8 to 10
96 pages 5 1/8 x 7 5/8
trade paper
Rights: World ex North America
24/carton
JUV013030 JUV014000
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Also available by André Alexis:
Childhood
Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award
Trillium Award
Shortlisted for the Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the Rogers Communications
Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
paperback ISBN 0-7710-0666-7
CAN $14.99
Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa
Shortlisted for a Regional Commonwealth
Prize
paperback ISBN 0-7710-0667-5
CAN $16.99
www.tundrabooks.com
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