Places Far from Ellesmere

Internationally acclaimed novelist Aritha van Herk takes geography and fiction and creates of them a geografictione -- fiction mapped on the lines of geography, a geography following the course of fiction. A new reading of Tolstoy`s tragic heroine Anna Karenina and a sojourn at Ellesmere Island come together, and the North becomes an incomparably beautiful place, a living, unread, feminine landscape. Filled with the possibilities of worlds and their tellings, with always fresh and challenging perspectives, Places Far From Ellesmere extends the reputation of one of Canada`s most highly regarded feminist writers. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.