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Antanas Sileika


Antanas Sileika is the author of Dinner at the End of the World and Buying on Time, which was nominated for both the Toronto Book Award and the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Buying on Time was serialized on CBC Radio's Between the Covers. A freelance broadcaster and journalist, Sileika is also the winner of a National Magazine Award and the artistic director of the Humber School for Writers.

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Woman in Bronze
Written by Antanas Sileika

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31298-7 (0-679-31298-6)

June 21, 2005 | $21.00



Tomas Stumbras grew up in war-torn Eastern Europe: a dark, rainy land of misty hills and valleys, where the whispers of the ancient gods and devils are still heard by ordinary people. He is a god-maker, a sculptor with a gift for turning dead wood into protective saints for use in...