How exciting! The Globe & Mail has included CODE NOIR by Canisia Lubrin in their roundup of the most anticipated books of 2024 (so far)!
Read the full list here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-2024-books-to-read/
About CODE NOIR by Canisia Lubrin (Knopf, February)
Canisia Lubrin’s debut fiction is that rare work of art—a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure is deceptively simple: it departs from the infamous real-life “Code Noir,” a set of historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. The original Code had fifty-nine articles; Code Noir has fifty-nine linked fictions—vivid, unforgettable, multi-layered fragments filled with globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past.
Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from futuristic fantasy to historical fiction, this inventive, shape-shifting braid of stories exists far beyond the enclosures of official decrees. This is a timely, daring, virtuosic book by a young literary star. The stories are accompanied by black-and-white drawings—one at the start of each fiction—by acclaimed visual artist Torkwase Dyson.
Canisia is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Pre order a copy of Canisia’s CODE NOIR: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/669724/code-noir-by-canisia-lubrin/9780735282216