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Hailed as \"tender and raw, morbid and surprisingly gentle\" by the \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBarnacle Love\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for Canada's highly prestigious Giller Prize.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Moving from a small Portuguese fishing village in the Azores to the shores of Newfoundland, \u003ci\u003eBarnacle Love\u003c\/i\u003e then takes us into the dark alleys of Toronto's Portuguese community in the 1970s. The first half of the book is told by Manuel Rebelo, who has fled his homeland--and the crushing weight of his mother's expectations--to build a future for himself in a new land. Manuel struggles hard to adjust, but fulfilling the promise of his adopted home is not as simple as he had hoped. The second half of the book is told with candor by Manuel's son Antonio, who--along with his sister and mother--lives in the shadows cast by Manuel's failures.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With fantastic, sometimes magical details and passionate empathy, Anthony De Sa invites readers into the lives of the Rebelo family. The results are, in the words of writer Nino Ricci, \"haunting and elegiac.\"\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50152716239121,"sku":"CIN1565129261VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50383009349905,"sku":"CIN1565129261G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51681337344273,"sku":"GOR011311930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52383673123089,"sku":"CIN1565129261A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B005Q6VAZ2.jpg?v=1751119092"},{"product_id":"kicking-the-sky-book-anthony-de-sa-9780385664387","title":"Kicking the Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow available in paperback--Anthony De Sa's novel of rare evocative power that captures the space between innocence and knowing--for a city, for a community and most especially for a trio of unforgettable boys.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On a steamy summer day in 1977, Emanuel Jaques was shining shoes in downtown Toronto. Surrounded by the strip clubs, bars and body rub parlors of Yonge Street, Emanuel was lured away from his friends by a man who promised some easy money. Four days later the boy's body was discovered. He had been brutally raped and murdered, and Toronto the Good would never be the same. The murder of the Shoeshine Boy had particularly tragic resonance for the city's Portuguese community. The loss of one of their own symbolized for many how far they were from realizing their immigrant dreams.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKicking the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is told from the perspective of one of these children, Antonio Rebelo, a character first introduced in \u003ci\u003eBarnacle Love\u003c\/i\u003e. Twelve-year-old Antonio prizes his life of freedom and adventure. He and his best friends, Manny and Ricky, spend their days on their bikes exploring the labyrinth of laneways that link their Portuguese neighborhood to the rest of the city. But as the details of Emanuel's death expose Toronto's seedier underbelly, the boys are pulled into an adult world of danger and cruelty, secrets and lies much closer to home.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKicking the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel driven by dramatic events, taking hold of readers from its opening pages, intensifying its force towards an ending of huge emotional impact.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50348930531601,"sku":"CIN0385664389G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385664389.jpg?v=1751357852"},{"product_id":"kicking-the-sky-book-anthony-de-sa-9781565129276","title":"Kicking the Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow available in paperback--Anthony De Sa's novel of rare evocative power that captures the space between innocence and knowing--for a city, for a community and most especially for a trio of unforgettable boys.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On a steamy summer day in 1977, Emanuel Jaques was shining shoes in downtown Toronto. 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