Annal:2006 Giller Prize for Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Giller Prize in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
- 2006 Giller Prize winner
- Score: 10.56
With their scalpel-sharp prose and unflinching gaze, the stories in Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures introduce a powerful new voice in Canadian fiction.
In Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam holds in delicate and skillful tension black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic and matter-of-fact portrait of today’s medical profession.
He brings to vivid and convincing life the disparate but interdependent worlds of school and home, heartbreaking young love and…
De Niro's Game: A Novel
- 2008 IMPAC Dublin winner
- 2006 Giller Prize shortlist
- 2006 Governor General's finalists
- Score: 22.58
In Rawi Hage’s astonishing and unforgettable novel, a famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon’s civil war. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in wartorn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crime; or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. Bassam chooses one path: Obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to finance his departure. Meanwhile, George builds his power…
Pascale Quiviger, Sheila Fischman
- 2006 Giller Prize shortlist
- Score: 6.56
Marianne, a young Montrealer, has come to live in Tuscany to draw and write and examine her life. Here she meets Marco, a temptingly seductive man who still lives in his mother’s house in the village and who’s not prepared to commit himself to anything resembling a shared life. Though he breaks her heart, again and again, Marianne can only avoid him by returning to Canada.
This first novel by Pascale Quiviger is marked by its luminous language and its unstinting look at what makes Marianne, and Marco, and, indeed, an entire village and the world beyond it, tick.
- 2006 Giller Prize shortlist
- Score: 6.56
East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit’s foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell.
Gaétan Soucy’s The Immaculate Conception, with its echoes of the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky, illuminates the sublime, the uncanny, and the horrific that burns…
- 2006 Giller Prize shortlist
- Score: 6.56
From the acclaimed author of Visible Light comes a collection of seven outstanding stories, each set against the rural landscape of Vancouver Island and the cities of the Pacific Northwest. In these stories the memories and dreams of characters are examined, revealing them to be both cages and keys to the cages.
The life-lessons learned by the characters are often as complicated and painful as they are illuminating. In the title story, two sisters fall in love with their math tutor on one of the Gulf Islands, inhabited equally by the ghosts of the…
