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The 2011 Award

 

Goto

Half World

by Hiromi Goto

 

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Edmonton Public Library and Grant MacEwan University Library, Edmonton, Canada

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Puffin Canada

 
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Melanie Tamaki is an outsider.

Unpopular and impoverished, she is the only child of a loving but neglectful mother. She barely copes with surviving school and life. But everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by a vile creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie embarks on an epic and darkly fantastical journey to Half World to save her mother. What she does not yet realize is that the state of the universe is at stake....

Award winning author, Hiromi Goto's novel is an adventurous, genre-bending fantasy of shape-shifting characters, tortured half lives, and redemption.
 

(From Publisher).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Japanese-born Hiromi Goto immigrated to Canada in 1969. She is the author of the award-winning Chorus of Mushrooms; a children's novel, The Water of Possibility; and, most recently, the short story collection Hopeful Monsters. 

LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS

Goto has created a purgatory-like place, Half World, where souls work off their karmic debt. When a cataclysm servers the ties between worlds, the half-worlders are locked in a perpetual cycle of reliving their worst sins and nightmares. A fantastic read by a master of the Fantasy Genre.

 

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