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"In his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen , noted playwright Tomson Highway tells the story of two Cree brothers who were severely abused at a Catholic residential school, and he uses the full transformative power of magic and myth, as well as a...
Goya's Ghosts
DVD - 2008
Goya's Ghosts
DVD - 2008
"Watched this because of the names of some of those involved in making the film or appearing in it. I found it choppy and hopelessly overdone, and almost completely lacking in any subtlety. Opinions on the film vary widely. Sadly a waste of their ..."
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The vivid, often startling memoir of a young woman shaped by two dramatically disparate worlds. Saira Shah is the English-born daughter of an Afghan aristocrat, inspired by his dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears...