Five Canadian books made The New York Times' list of the best books of the 21st century.
Five Canadian books made The New York Times' list of the best books of the 21st century. To mark the first quarter of the 21st century, The New York Times has released a list of the best books so far — and five Canadian works have made the cut.
The 100-book list was voted on by 503 writers, critics and book lovers with help from the staff of the New York Times Book Review. It features fiction and nonfiction published since Jan. 1, 2000.by Canadian-born, U.K.-based writer Rachel Cusk. The novel takes the 14th spot and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award in 2015.follows a writer who travels to Athens to teach a writing course and gets swept up in the stories that she encounters.
"Along the way, and once there, she falls into intense and resonant conversations about art, intimacy, life and love," wrote American journalist Dwight Garner in the feature. "Cusk deals, brilliantly, in uncomfortable truths."and was celebrated for her real-life portrayal of the lives of women and girls, but her legacy is complicated by recent revelations of a dark secret she kept.
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