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.
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)
- Nominated for the 2000 Giller Award (Monkey Beach)
- 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)
- A New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Traplines)
- A New York Times Editor's Choice (Traplines)
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Book Reviews and Quotes
Praise for 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 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
"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
Praise for 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
"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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