About
the Author
Eden Robinson is a thirty-one-year-old Haisla woman
who grew up near Kitamaat, BC. Her previous collection
of stories, Traplines, was awarded the Winifred
Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction in the
Commonwealth, and was a New York Times Editor's
Choice and Notable Book of the Year. She lives in North
Vancouver. Monkey Beach was published in the
New Face of Fiction program in 2000.
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Books by
this author
Monkey
Beach (Vintage
Canada, 2001)
Monkey
Beach
(Knopf Canada, 2000)
Traplines
(Vintage Canada, 1998)
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Literary
Awards
- Nominated
for the 2000 Governor General's Award (Monkey Beach)
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Nominated for the 2000 Giller Award (Monkey Beach)
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One of The Globe and Mail's "Best 100 Books"
(Monkey Beach)
- Editor's
Choice, The Globe and Mail, Jan 29, 2000 (Monkey
Beach)
- Winner
of the 1998 Winifred Holtby Prize (Traplines)
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Traplines)
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A New York Times Editor's Choice (Traplines)
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Book Reviews and Quotes
Monkey Beach: "Far more than a novel of psychological
transformation... It is, in the best sense, a thriller,
a spiritual mystery... breathtaking...The novel also
contains some of the truest passages I have read on
what it is like to be a teenager... perceptive and unflinching...You
can tell Monkey Beach is an original because you actually
want to read it again. You know you missed details...
startlingly accomplished, artfully constructed, in places
very funny, in others deeply haunting... Robinson rewards
our faith that after all these years writers can still,
as Pound said, 'make it new. In this year's lineup of
lookalike literary prospects she could be the Willie
Mays we've been hoping for."
—The Washington
Post
Monkey Beach: "Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful
novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like
entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted
world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow,
where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was
sucked into it with the very first sentence and when
I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance."
—Anita Rau Badami
Monkey
Beach: "Glorious Northern Gothic…. A compelling
story…Robinson has an artist's eye, and delicately evokes
the astonishing natural beauty of the Kitamaat region…behind
Lisa's neutral voice is an authorial presence, weaving
Haisla and Heiltsuk lore into the fabric of the novel
gracefully, but with the quiet determination of an archivist
cataloguing a disappearing way of life… …a deeply satisfying
conclusion."
—The Globe and Mail, January
22, 2000
Traplines:
"This is a fine book — unflinching,
moving and shockingly, bloodily funny. Eden Robinson
offers a raw, muscular, urgent new voice: she writes
from the heart and the more of that, the better. I look
forward to seeing what she'll do next."
—A.L. Kennedy
Traplines: "These [stories] are human dramas
which she narrates in a style that is disarming in
its simplicity and brutal in its honesty. Combining
pathos with biting humour, each of these beautifully
crafted narratives has a sting.... Menacing but brilliantly
conceived narrative[s]."
—Independent
on Sunday
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Links
to Extra Resources
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