by Nino Ricci
NINO RICCI’S first novel, The Book of Saints, won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the F. G. Bressani Prize. A longtime national best seller, it was followed by the highly acclaimed In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone, which was short-listed for the Giller Prize, and the national best seller Testament, which won the Trillium Book Award in 2002. He lives in Toronto.
Copyright © 2008 Nino Ricci
First published by Anchor Canada in Canada in 2008
Other Press edition 2010
Production Editor: Yvonne E. Cárdenas
Epigraph from Illuminations, translated by
Harry Zohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968).
Epigraph translated by Samuel Butler.
Epigraph translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1976).
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Ricci, Nino.
The origin of species / Nino Ricci.
p. cm.
“First published by Anchor Canada in Canada in 2008.”
eISBN: 978-1-59051-371-2
1. Graduate students–Fiction. 2. Self-realization–Fiction. 3. Montréal (Québec)–History–20th century–Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.3.R512O75 2010
813′.54–dc22
2009041070
PUBLISHER’S NOTE:
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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