Hello, Sign in. Account Lists Returns Orders. Cart5/5(8). Aga Maksimowska is the author of the Toronto Book Awards shortlisted novel Giant. She emigrated from Poland in She studied Journalism at Ryerson University and Education at the University of Toronto/5. · Giant, by Aga Maksimowska, presents a child’s perspective of revolution—Poland in —a traumatic time of change mirrored in year-old Gosia's body and the absence of her migrant-worker parent, a mother who works in Canada cleaning houses and a .
Giant by Maksimowska, Aga Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Open Book: Giant, by Aga Maksimowska It's a tribute to Aga Maksimowska's novel Giant that its heroine's size is not the most interesting thing about her Author of the article. Review: Personals, by Ian Williams. You know, I read Ian Williams' first book of poetry and enjoyed it a lot. Felt it was a solid effort, a pleasurable collision of the personal and the postmodern. I had a feeling, after finishing that collection, that Williams would go on to do something grander and even more impressive.
Giant By Aga Maksimowska Pedlar Press, The postwar veterans I grew up among would raise their eyebrows, raised like ironical quotation marks and call them “the new generation”. That was their descriptor for Polish émigrés arriving in North America between the declaration of martial law and the triumph of Solidarity. Aga Maksimowska is the author of the Toronto Book Awards shortlisted novel Giant. She emigrated from Poland in She studied Journalism at Ryerson University and Education at the University of Toronto. Aga Maksimowska’s critically acclaimed novel Giantfocuses on painful trans(de)formations and metamorphosis in the context of immigration and adolescence. The involuntary changes are examined as.
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