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Ingrid and the Wolf

Andre 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

A haunting parable by

creature that is, by turns, loving and vicious. It is a wolf.

one of Canada's finest

Ingrid realizes that she is the caretaker of her unusual

inheritance, like it or not.

authors

Award winning author Andre Alexis delivers his storytelling

skills to a new generation of readers in this, his first children's book.

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A

NDRE

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LEXIS

was born in Trinidad in 1957 and grew up in Canada.

His debut novel, Childhood (1998), won the Chapters/Books in Canada

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First Novel Award, shared the Trillium Award, and was shortlisted for

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the Giller Prize and the Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction

Prize. It has been published around the world. He is also the author of

On Sale: October 11, 2005

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).

Also available by Andre Alexis:  

Andre Alexis lives in Toronto.

Childhood

Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award

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HILDHOOD

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Trillium Award 

 The love affair between a young black boy's wayward mother and a

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize 

Shortlisted for the Rogers Communications

man who may or may not be his father forms the intriguing

Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 

background to this enormously appealing first novel An impressive

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new voice.   Publishers Weekly

CAN $14.99 

Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa

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Shortlisted for a Regional Commonwealth

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TORIES OF

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TTAWA

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Prize 

 Readers will be rewarded by this collection's extraordinary depth of

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field and by its author's vibrant intelligence.   Branko Gorjup, Review

CAN $16.99

of Canadian Fiction

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