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Following the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the
scenes of chaos at Kabul Airport, we could be forgiven for thinking
we're experiencing an 'end of empire' moment, that the US is
entering a new, less belligerent era in its foreign policy, and
that its tenure as self-appointed 'global policeman' is coming to
an end. Before we get our hopes up though, it's wise to remember
exactly what this policeman has done, for the world, and ask
whether it's likely to change its behaviour after any one setback.
After 75 years of war, occupation, and political interference -
installing dictators, undermining local political movements,
torturing enemies, and assisting in the arrest of opposition
leaders (from OEcalan to Mandela) - the US military-industrial
complex doesn't seem to know how to stop. This anthology explores
the human cost of these many interventions onto foreign soil, with
stories by writers from that soil - covering everything from
torture in Abu Ghraib, to coups and counterrevolutionary wars in
Latin America, to all-out invasions in the Middle and Far East.
Alongside testimonies from expert historians and ground-breaking
journalists, these stories present a history that too many of us in
the West simply pretend never happened. This new anthology
re-examines this history with stories that explore the human cost
of these interventions on foreign soil, by writers from that soil.
From nuclear testing in the Pacific, to human testing of CIA
torture tactics, from coups in Latin America, to all-out invasions
in the Middle and Far East; the atrocities that follow are often
dismissed in history books as inevitable in the 'fog of war'. By
presenting them from indigenous, grassroots perspectives,
accompanied by afterwords by the historians that consulted on them,
this book attempts to bring some clarity back to that history.
WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
FIRST BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR THE
2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL
BEST BOOK OF 2018 A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR Fantastical,
magnetic, and harsh--these are the women in Paige Cooper's debut
short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time
machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who
won't arrive. They are sisters writhing with dreams, blase about
sex but beggared by love--while the police horses have talons and
vengeance is wrought by eagles the size of airplanes. Broken-down
motorbikes and housebroken tyrannosaurs, cheap cigarettes and mail
bombs--Cooper finds the beautiful and the disturbing in both the
surreal and the everyday. Troubling, carnal, and haunting, these
stories are otherworldly travelogues through banal, eco-fabulist
dystopias. Zolitude is a gorgeous, sad, and sexy work of slipstream
and an atlas of fantastic isolation. The monstrous is human here,
and tender.
"The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it
... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will
not consider going back." "Like meeting a stranger, much of the
pleasure of a story is its unknown power," writes Best Canadian
Stories 2020 guest editor Paige Cooper. "The right story, at the
right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you
so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back."
From Festival du Voyageur to the shores of Lake Erie, Tbilisi to
Toronto, the Amisk River to a hotel-turned-hospital in the midst of
a mysterious pandemic, this wide-ranging anthology brings together
the real and the speculative, small towns and big cities, grief and
humour, introducing readers to stories that startle us into new
understanding-of ourselves and each other, the worlds we inhabit
and the ones they help us to imagine. Featuring work by: Maxime
Raymond Bock * Lynn Coady * Kristyn Dunnion * Omar El Akkad *
Camilla Grudova * Conor Kerr * Alex Leslie * Thea Lim * Madeleine
Maillet * Cassidy McFadzean * Michael Melgaard * Jeff Noh * Casey
Plett * Eden Robinson * Naben Ruthnum * Pablo Strauss * Souvankham
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