Code Noir

Author  Canisia Lubrin
Code Noir

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION • Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2024 • CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024

Groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired writers.

Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art—a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure is deceptively simple: it departs from the infamous real-life “Code Noir,” a set of historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. The original Code had fifty-nine articles; Code Noir has fifty-nine linked fictions—vivid, unforgettable,…

$34.95
February 6, 2024
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