A collection of short stories explores a range of moral and social themes--alienation and estrangement, political and domestic morality, racial prejudice--as individuals and cultures clash
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Neil Bissoondath is the author of The Worlds within Her, Doing the Heart Good, and A Casual Brutality. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Prize and a National Magazine Award (Gold) for fiction. He lives in Quebec City with his wife and daughter.
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