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Hello, Guy. I'm Canadian. What are some good books about Canada?
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Hello, Guy. I'm Canadian. What are some good books about Canada?
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>>7375480
The ones you find when you type "good Canadian books" on google and click on the first result.
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The one about the woman who has sex with the bear. It won one of your national book awards after it came out.
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richard ford - canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_%28novel%29

>Bear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel, published in 1976. It won the Governor General's Literary Award the same year. It is Engel's fifth novel, and her most famous. The story tells of a lonely archivist in northern Ontario who enters into a sexual relationship with a bear. The book has been called "the most important novel ever written in Canada"[1]
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>>7375507

>tfw can no longer distinguish between reality and satire
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Infinite Jest
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muh dik
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>>7375480
Sunshine Sketches of a Small Town
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>>7375480
fifth business
canada made me
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>>7375480
>Hello, Guy. I'm Guyanese. What are some good books about Guyana?
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>>7375712
The only good answer

Fifth business is pleb tier
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>>7375507
Sounds cool, added to my queue
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>>7375496
>>7375507
>This is what Canadians actually believe.
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desu Robertson Davies ain't bad.
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>>7376133
mange ma sale bite connard
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>>7375480
It's a great episode.
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Read some Alice Munro stories.
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>>7375480
Ed the Happy Clown
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>>7375480
Alice Munro writes good short stories, I like Guy Vanderhaeghe's westerns, and Robertson Davies wrote good Canadian novels.

Canada doesn't have a lot of great literature desu senpai, Under the Volcano is pretty good too but its not really about Canada.
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>>7375480
try "The Wars"
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this is the funniest thing i've ever seen
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Wacousta
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Robertston Davies

The only good Canadian writer.
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>>7376252
These comics don't really describe what they tell the audience they're describing
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