Kim Echlin, Author . Black Cat $14 (235p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7066-8
Canadian novelist Echlin (Elephant Winter
) derives a powerful, transcendent love story from the Cambodian genocide. Anne Greves, a motherless 16-year-old student, meets a Cambodian refugee, Serey, working as a math instructor amid the heady music...
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Kim Echlin, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0610-5
The appealing protagonist of this engaging first novel (published in 1997 by Viking in Canada) learns the language of elephants, creating a dictionary of elephant speech to support her theory that elephants communicate not unlike humans, expressing...
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Kim Echlin. Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada, $29.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-06532-5
Echlin’s 2009 novel The Disappeared was shortlisted for Canada’s prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, and her talent is on full display in this lyrical, exciting story of two women and their lifelong relationships with music and with each other....
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Kim Echlin. Penguin Canada, $20 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-319458-3
This book by Echlin, best known for her novels (The Disappeared), is both exacting scholarly work and presentation of exquisite poetry from about 1800 BCE; a stunning hybrid story-cycle and reference text. Echlin's careful and considered translation
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