Split Tooth
Published on 3. October 2023
196 pages
978-1-913505-81-3 (ISBN)
Description
Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award
An Inuk girl grows up in the Artic in the 1970s. In this acclaimed debut novel - haunting, exhilarating, and tender all at once - Tagaq explores a gritty small town and the electrifying proximity of the worlds of animals and of myth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
High Wycombe
United Kingdom
File size
2,11 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-913505-81-3 (9781913505813)
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From Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada), internationally celebrated artist Tanya Tagaq is an improvisational throat singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling author. A member of the Order of Canada, winner of the Polaris Music Prize (a Canadian equivalent to the Mercury Music Prize), Tagaq is an original disruptor, a world-changing figure at the forefront of seismic social, political and environmental change.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1975
- A Day in the Life
- Sternum
- Ritual
- Nine Mile Lake
- The Topography of Pity
- The First Time It Happened
- 1978
- 1982
- That Time
- Misplaced
- Acknowledgments
- This Book Was Made Possible Thanks to the Support Of
- Copyright
