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Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden tells the story of two Cree Indians who volunteer for the Canadian Army. With shooting skills obtained in the Northern Ontario bush, they become snipers in trench warfare during WWI.
Mafiaboy by Michael Calce with Craig Siverman is the story of a fifteen-year-old living in the suburbs of Montreal, who launches DOS (denial of service) attacks on CNN, Yahoo, eBay, and Amazon in early 2000. The RCMP, with the help of the FBI, arrest him.
Rawi Hage
Cockroach by Rawi Hage is set in the immigrant communities of downtown Montreal. A restaurant busboy, from the Middle East, tells a story with echoes of Kafka's "Metamorphosis", Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, and Dostoevksy's Notes from the Underground.
Links:
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/
http://mafiaboybook.com/
http://www.anansi.ca/authors.cfm?author_id=441
