Mark Frutkin

• Jan-1993
• / General Fiction
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When he wins a commission to paint a huge mural in the stock exchange, he is convinced his career is taking off. Then the president of the exchange cancels the contract and he takes her to court... and the battle turns his life upside down....

• Feb-1993
• / Literary
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In 1904 a force of 2500 British Imperial troops invaded Tibet. Their mission was to march on the fabled capital of Lhasa and seize its ruler and spiritual head, the Dalai Lama, and compel him to expel foreign provocateurs. All this was but another st...

• Oct-1997
• / Literary
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This magical new novel by Governor General and Trillium Prize nominee Mark Frutkin, set in 13th century Venice and Cathay, is a dazzling fresco of shimmering language, brimming with golden tableaus of arid deserts and cobblestone alleys, the wafting ...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Short-listed for the 1988 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award and Trillium Book Award Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900 to 1914. Tempt...

• Feb-2006
• / General Fiction
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A brilliant novel packed with delights: grand romance, alchemical potions, violins to make you weep, commedia dell’arte theatre, reappearing comets, rambling skeletons and cracks in time.

It is 1682 in Cremona, Italy. With his manservant, an...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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In the tradition of Kafka's Parables and Paradoxes and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, this collection of short essays and "alternative versions" is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminder that language, self, and reality are based on socia...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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This is a unique novel of old China, the traditional landscapeof mountains and rivers without end, and life in an imperial city rife with plots, intrigues, culture, sensuality and wealth.
Li Wen, a landscape painter of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 A...

• May-2018
• / Historical
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Rumours of the Second Coming of Christ abound in the City of Masks. Michele Archenti, publisher, former priest, and current confidant to the mysterious skeleton-bearer Rodolpho, finds himself swept away by a rising tide of politics, ambition and l...

• Aug-2021
• / Literary
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The play of light and shadow defines Mark Frutkin's vibrant narrative based on the life of the seventeenth-century painter known as Caravaggio, whose revolutionary use of the chiaroscuro technique fuelled his dazzling success while his demons led him...