Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century - Softcover

Saul, John Ralston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140259880 ISBN 13: 9780140259889

Publisher: Penguin Canada, 1998

Synopsis

In Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye from a reinterpretation of the Western world to an examination of Canada itself. Caught up in crises—political, economic, and social—Canada continues to flounder, unable to solve or even really identify its problems.

Instead, we assert absolute differences between ourselves: we are English or we are French; Natives or Europeans; early immigrants or newly arrived; from the east or from the west. Or we bow to ideologies and deny all differences in the name of nationalism, unity, or equality. In a startling exercise in reorientation, John Ralston Saul makes sense of Canadian myths—real, false, denied—and reconciles them with the reality of today's politics, culture, and economics.

About this title

About the Author:

John Ralston Saul is Canada’s leading public intellectual. Declared a “prophet” by Time magazine, Saul has received many awards and prizes, including Chile’s Pablo Neruda Medal. He is president of PEN International, an organization dedicated to freedom of expression. He has published fourteen works, which have been translated into twenty-five languages in thirty-six countries, the most recent of which is The Comeback, an examination of the remarkable return to power of Aboriginal people in Canada. Saul lives in Toronto.

Review:

"A powerful stimulant to revive a country sleep-walking into dependence or disintegration." -- The Gazette

"A tour de force." -- Quill and Quire

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140259880
• ISBN 13: 9780140259889
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336