Awards and HonoursĢ007 Governor General’s Literary Award–English language, Fiction (Finalist)Ģ007 Amazon. In his desire to atone for his past and live anew, he is compelled to imagine his mother’s life before it all slips into darkness―her arrival in Canada during the early sixties, her childhood in Trinidad during World War II, and her lurking secret that each have tried to forget. The son returns after two years to confront his mother but also a young woman who now mysteriously occupies the house. 2 An adaptation of David Chariandy s award-winning novel Brother, 3 the film centres on the relationship between Francis and Michael, two Black Canadian brothers growing up in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario in the early 1990s. Winner of the 2017 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize, David Chariandys Brother is his intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, and tightly constructed. This extraordinary first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia. David Chariandy is the author of Soucouyant, which was nominated for eleven literary awards, including the Governor Generals Award and the Scotiabank. Brother is a 2022 Canadian drama film, written, produced, and directed by Clement Virgo.

PS8605 ,H36 Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)Ī soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas.