Awards
- Long-listed for Giller Prize 2023 (Canada)
- Winner of Trillium Book Award 2024 (Canada)
Overview
Longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize Globe and Mail 100 Best Book of 2023 CBC Books, Best Canadian Fiction 2023 Apple Books, Best Canadian Debut 2023 and Best Book of the Month for September 2023 ""We all lined up for our whipping by the shouting beauty and tender traumas of life. All of us so sensitive, and now this beautiful girl, with soft brown hair that was shot with gold in the sun. Another one of us starting to stumble."" Peter plays the trumpet and works in a kitchen, partying; Stasi tries to climb the corporate ladder and lands in therapy. These sensitive siblings struggle to find their place in the world, seeking intimacy and belonging or trying to escape it. A promising audition, a lost promotion, intriguing strangers, a silent lover, and a grieving neighbour-in rich, sensual scenes and moody brilliance, The Clarion explores rituals of connection and belonging, themes of intimacy and performance, and how far we wander to find, or lose, our sense of self. Alternating between five days in Peter's life and several months of Stasi's, Dunic's debut novel captures the vague if hopeful melancholy of any generation that believes it was never ""called"" to something great.
Full Product Details
Author: Nina Dunic
Publisher: Invisible Publishing
Imprint: Invisible Publishing
ISBN: 9781778430282
ISBN 10: 1778430287
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""In The Clarion, the lives of Dunic's sibling protagonists run parallel, propelled by the constant tension between performance and introspection that can come to define us as people--both who we are and also who we fail to be.""--Curtis LeBlanc, author of Sunsetter and Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation"
"""An extraordinary debut with the courage to recognize and reckon with the essential solitude of our moment, a rare novel that is willing to look unflinchingly at our isolation, and that, in doing this, fulfils the promise of fiction to make us less alone.""--Aaron Schneider, author of The Supply Chain ""The Clarion's split narrative of a brother and sister adrift is as darkly comic as it is precise. Dunic is able to distill what it means to be alone with a single line, or look, or colour of the sky. There's a felt pressure below every one of this novel's cloistered fragments, a quiet below the characters' inexorable 'getting by' that so many of us recognize, and it breaks your heart. Here is an exciting new voice in fiction.""--Jason Jobin, author of The Wild Mandrake ""In The Clarion, the lives of Dunic's sibling protagonists run parallel, propelled by the constant tension between performance and introspection that can come to define us as people--both who we are and also who we fail to be.""--Curtis LeBlanc, author of Sunsetter"
Author Information
Nina Dunic is a two-time winner of the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, has been longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize three times, won third place in the Humber Literary Review Emerging Writers Fiction Contest, and was nominated for The Journey Prize. Nina lives in Scarborough, in Toronto's east end. Find out more at ninadunic.com.
