Thomas King

Trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a festive solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the partygoers through the snowy woods to a shopping mall - a place they have never seen before. Coyote gleefully shops with abandon, only to discover that filling your shopping cart with goodies is not quite the same thing as actually paying for them. The trickster is tricked and goes back to his cabin...

A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot.

Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptional. Seventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have squandered, a reprimand for all we have allowed, a suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.

Premier recueil de poésie du grand écrivain autochtone Thomas King Traduit par Jonathan Lamy Résumé Thomas King signe un premier recueil de poésie. Soixante-dix-sept fragments o alternent mythes réactualisés, commentaires politiques, tranches de vie et traits d'humour. Le tout porté par la puissance tellurique et le style iconoclaste de ce grand écrivain autochtone. Extrait Quand je me sens frustré, je vais à la rivière lancer des pierres dans...

En éliminant le sous-bois qui gêne le passage d'un oléoduc, la multinationale Domidion provoque un déversement mortel sur la cte de la Colombie-Britannique. Dorian Asher, le PDG, s'amuse à oublier son divorce et son mal-être par des dépenses somptuaires. Le chercheur Gabriel Quinn, responsable de la catastrophe, retourne s'enfermer près de la réserve de sa mère, désormais condamnée. Il y rencontre des survivants : Mara Reid, peintre ayant...

The Inconvenient Indian is at once a "history" and the complete subversion of a history-in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be "Indian" in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in...

Winner of the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year and the Aboriginal Fiction Book of the Year-a collection of twenty short stories told in Thomas King's classic, wry, irreverent, and allegorical voice.

A surprise inheritance. A derelict mansion. His own time portal. Then, poof-All gone In 1985, Jack Thyme is a young teacher at an exclusive prep school in Portland, Oregon. When his aunt dies suddenly, the terms of his grandfather's trust kick in. In less than 48 hours, he is in a small Virginia town he didn't know existed, meeting with a bunch of lawyers about an inheritance from a man he never knew. What the lawyers don't tell him-probably don't...

An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artist. All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths. This book is the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one. As early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous...

A skeleton band supplies words and music to the well-known song based on the African-American spiritual.