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    Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow: Acts of Kamikaze Fiction
    Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow: Acts of Kamikaze Fiction
    Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow: Acts of Kamikaze Fiction
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    Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow: Acts of Kamikaze Fiction

    By Leon Rooke

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9781550963380
    Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow: Acts of Kamikaze Fiction
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    Leon Rooke

    Leon Rooke is the author of seven novels, including Shakespeare's Dog which won the 1993 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Other major awards he has received include The W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Canada-Australia Literary Prize, and the CBC Fiction Prize. He has published over 300 short stories, as well as poetry and plays, and is the founder of The Eden Mills Literary Festival.

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