His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers Trust Fiction Prize.
Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks.Īndré Alexis's contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. His most recent novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. Andre Alexiss book is about fifteen dogs who can suddenly talk - and reason like humans - and it seems tailor-made for college freshmen. "- I'll wager a year's servitude," answered Apollo, "that animals – any animal you like – would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they were given human intelligence."Īnd so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. The concept a group of dogs granted human intelligence seems. 'One evening in Toronto, the gods Apollo and Hermes' decide that the only way to determine whether human intelligence contributes to happiness is to grant it to 15 dogs and see whether they die. "- I wonder," said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." In this story, human and canine worlds intersect in an intriguing sociological experiment.
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