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Erna Paris


Erna Paris is the winner of ten national and international writing awards, including the White Award (Canada-U.S.) for journalism, a gold medal from the National Magazine Awards Foundation, and four Media Club of Canada awards for feature writing and radio documentary. She is the author of six previous acclaimed books of literary non-fiction, most recently Long Shadows, which won the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for History. She lives in Toronto.

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The Sun Climbs Slow
Written by Erna Paris

eBook | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Current Affairs - International; Current Affairs - Law
978-0-307-37083-9 (0-307-37083-6)

May 28, 2010 | $21.00

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The Sun Climbs Slow
Written by Erna Paris

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ISBN: 9780307370839
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A powerful investigation of the story and individuals behind America’s refusal to acknowledge international law and an inquiry into the urgent role of international criminal justice from the award-winning, bestselling author of Long Shadows.

In this groundbreaking investigation, Erna Paris explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America’s opposition to...

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The Sun Climbs Slow
Written by Erna Paris

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Current Affairs - International; Current Affairs - Law
978-0-676-97745-5 (0-676-97745-6)

April 28, 2009 | $22.00

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The Sun Climbs Slow
Written by Erna Paris

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ISBN: 9780676977455
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A powerful investigation of the story and individuals behind America’s refusal to acknowledge international law and an inquiry into the urgent role of international criminal justice from the award-winning, bestselling author of Long Shadows.

In this groundbreaking investigation, Erna Paris explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America’s opposition to...

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Long Shadows
Written by Erna Paris

Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage Canada | History
978-0-676-97276-4 (0-676-97276-4)

October 9, 2001 | $24.95

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Long Shadows
Written by Erna Paris

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ISBN: 9780676972764
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Award-winning writer Erna Paris chronicles her journey over four continents into the shifting terrain of war and memory. Combining gripping storytelling with insight and sharp observation, Paris takes us to places of reckoning – be they courtrooms or concentration camps – and finds hope in the way ordinary people grapple with...

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Long Shadows
Written by Erna Paris

Hardcover | 512 pages | Knopf Canada | History
978-0-676-97251-1 (0-676-97251-9)

October 10, 2000 | $36.95

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Long Shadows
Written by Erna Paris

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780676972511
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How do nations reinvent themselves after cataclysmic events? Who gets to decide what happened yesterday, then to propagate the tale, and what are the consequences of their choices? These are some of the questions author and historian Erna Paris carried with her through the United States, with its long-buried memory of...

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