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“You Will Love What You Have

Killed” by Kevin Lambert translated from the French by Donald Winkler (184 pages, $19.95). This novel is from Biblioasis, one of very few Canadian publishers introducing English speakers to an exciting crop of young writers from Quebec. And they’ve got an eye for what’s going to be a hit: They’ve published, among many others, “The Dishwasher” by Stéphane Larue, which won the 2020 Amazon First Novel Award; the Giller finalist “Arvida” by Samuel Archibald (also translated by Winkler) and Catherine Leroux’s “The Party Wall,” which won a 2018 Governor General’s Award.

Winkler says that when he first read “You Will Love What You Have Killed,” “I was energized by the prospect of, as a guy well into his 70s, riding this bronco of a novel by a twentysomething-yearold wunderkind … reproducing its breakneck momentum and its snapcrackle-and-pop prose in a new language.” It’s full of ghosts and kids who come back to life after terrible deaths — and plot their revenge against the grown-ups.

“All I Ask” by Eva Crocker, from the House of Anansi (320 pages, $22.95). This young Newfoundland writer is destined to be a fixture on the CanLit list. Her debut collection of short stories, “Barrelling Forward,” won the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award. “All I Ask” is her first novel. Originally set to publish in June, her publishers released only the ebook — the hard copy release delayed due to COVID-19, a fate that also befell many other books. When the e-version came out the Star’s reviewer called it “a wickedly funny, sexy, joyous novel.” It’s also an unmissable millennial coming-of-age story, set in St. John’s, N.L.

And now, at long last, the print version is on bookstore shelves, virtual and otherwise. If you missed it the first time around, you’ll want to grab it now.