"When Conrad Grey was a boy he saw his mother awaken from death."

The Lions

Orca BookPress, 1992

The Lions is the story of two men of diverse backgrounds struggling for survival in Northern and urban Canada. The vision here is one tinted by the displacement of people from their communities and families. This began, though, as a meditation on the problem of akrasia, the philosophical question of whether a person knowingly makes a morally wrong choice. Jaswant Sijjer and Conrad Grey both grow up in broken families, and as adults they find themselves searching for ethical signposts. On a practical level they find themselves broken, running, and working together in a ditch.

"an impressive debut"

The Ottawa Citizen

"In this powerful first novel- by a writer who is bound to make his mark on Canadian literature - the lions are inside and outside ..."

Canadian Book Review Annual.

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