Nino Ricci - Governor General’s Literary Award 2008

Nino Ricci, award winner for Fiction for his novel, The Origin of Species. Alex Fratarcangeli, a modern Prufrock, must survive in the multiethnic complexity of Montreal in the 1980s. The Origin of Species is written with great humanity, realism and wit. Told in windowpane prose, this story reads as if it has come up through our collective memory. With the shock of recognition, we gain a new understanding of our fragility and our strength.
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