SON OF A TRICKSTER

Book ID/图书代码： 12760015B82756

English Summary/英文概要： With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics, and cannibalistic river otter . . . The exciting first novel in her trickster trilogy.

A return to the tumultuous cross-cultural Native territory of Monkey Beach

Seventeen-year-old aboriginal Jared Martin thinks he’s going crazy.What else is he supposed to think when he starts seeing a ghost in a blue bathrobe who calls himself “Dent, Arthur Dent”? Hoping for a clean break and a return to a normal life, Jared leaves his northern reserve to live with his aunt Mavis and to go to school in Vancouver .But when he arrives at his aunt’s apartment, things only get worse.Not only does Jared see ghosts, but he also discovers that he may be the son of Wee’git, a trickster who has infuriated a truckload of supernatural creatures who are hell-bent on revenge . And what better way is there to get some payback than to go after the son of their most-hated foe? Son of a Trickster is a tale that combines aboriginal belief systems and family dynamics with fantasy and horror and edgy, mordant humour.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 回到混乱的猴岛跨文化的土地。

十七岁原住民贾里德·马丁认为他要疯了。什当他开始看到一个身穿蓝色浴袍自称"邓特，亚瑟·邓特"的鬼魂时，他还能有什么指望？希望和过去做彻底告别，回到正常的生活的贾里德，离开他北部原住地，打算去和姑妈梅维斯一起住，并在温哥华上学。但当他到达他姑妈的公寓，事情变得更糟。杰瑞德不仅看到了鬼魂，他也发现，他可能是一个江湖骗子的儿子，而这个骗子已经激怒了一卡车执意要向骗子的儿子寻仇的超自然生物。还有什么更好方式来让他们宣泄去最痛恨的敌人的儿子？《骗子的儿子》是一部集土著原住民信仰体系和充满着幻想，恐惧和不安，有着辛辣幽默色彩家庭动态故事。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：The producers begin shooting the series August 26! A formal announcement will be made by CBC-TV in September.

By then we should have a better idea of international distribution. It is scheduled to air in Canada in fall 2020.

Eden Robinson makes the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist with SON OF A TRICKSTER

Eden Robinson’s SON OF A TRICKSTER is on the Giller Prize shortlist! Congratulations Eden!
http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/the-scotiabank-giller-prize-presents-its-2017-shortlist/
Son of a Trickster, by Eden Robinson (Knopf Canada) – In the first part of a proposed trilogy – and a finalist for the Giller Prize – a young man learns of his unusual parentage. Nathan Whitlock calls it "a black comedy about the irredeemably messed-up life of a teenager in small-town British Columbia."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-globe-100-these-are -the-best-books-of2017/article37071356/

http://www.cbc.ca/books/the-bestselling-books-in-canada-nov-19-to-nov-25-2017-1.4422833
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ambili/31-underrated-foreign-novels-you-should-read
Both are back on the list in their paperback incarnation.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4644577?__twitter_impression=true
Eden Robinson is #3!
http://www.cbc.ca/books/the-bestselling-books-of-the-week-april-29-may-5-1.4653421
SON OF A TRICKSTER is hanging in there at #10.
http://www.cbc.ca/books/the-bestselling-books-of-the-week-may-6-may-12-1.4663479

http://www.cbc.ca/books/the-bestselling-books-of-the-week-may-13-19-1.4674272
The bestselling books at Canadian independent bookstores this week
https://bcbookprizes.ca/winners-finalists/2019-bc-book-prizes-shortlist-nominees/

This trilogy is currently in production as a TV series for CBC-TV, for broadcast in fall 2020. The second volume has won one prize so far and more nominations are expected.

https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-bestselling-canadian-books-for-the-week-of-july-28-august-3-2019-1.5237877

“SON OF A TRICKSTER is Robinson’s best work. It is heartbreaking, hilarious, subversive, harsh, brutal, and so, so deeply tender… I know you will be blown away by it, and so moved.”

See also this news about the TV series, which has just been shot and will be broadcast in fall 2020: https://www.cbc.ca/books/cast-revealed-for-cbc-s-upcoming-series-the-trickster-1.5285735?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

SON OF A TRICKSTER is back on the list at #10. Not bad for a 3-year-old book. Thank you, TRICKSTER TV.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2020/10/14/toronto-star-bestsellers-for-the-week-ending-oct-14-2020.html

About the Author/作者介绍： Eden Victoria Lena Robinson(生於1968年1月19日)，加拿大的小說家和短篇小說作家。出生在（加拿大西部）不列顛哥倫比亞省的Kitamaat，她是Haisla & Heiltsuk印第安原住民之一。她在維多利亞大學和英國哥倫比亞大學接受教育。Robinson四部短篇小說合集《Traplines》（1995年），獲得了專為英聯邦作家最佳原作而設的，英國Winifred Holtby獎。這部作品還被《紐約時報》列入年度優秀讀物和編輯選擇獎。《Monkey Beach/猴岛》，是Robinso備受讚譽的第一本小說，獲得了B.C.布克小說獎，2000年入圍吉勒文學獎和總督獎，並曾被提名都柏林文學獎。

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Canada: Knopf, February 2017; TV: Sienna Films; Albanian rights to Dituria.

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