by Madeleine Thien · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781847084910
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«Dogs at the Perimeter» is the novel by Madeleine Thien, published by Granta Books in paperback (272 pages, in English).
The novel follows Janie, a neurochemist of Cambodian origin living in Montreal, who lives with the memories of her childhood under the Khmer Rouge regime. After leaving her family, she takes refuge with her friend Hiroji Matsui; when he disappears, Janie confronts memory, loss and the scars of war.
The novel was originally published in 2011 and received the LiBeraturpreis at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015.
For readers of historical and literary fiction about memory and the emotional aftermath of war.
Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, exploring art, expression and politics inside Cambodia and China, as well as within diasporic East Asian communities. Thien's critically acclaimed novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards for Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages.
