This brilliant collection is the amazing debut of a singular new voice, capturing the post-war European immigrant world and contemporary Canadian life. In several stories, the experience of immigration is explored through a new generation, one that cannot understand the importing of old hatreds and old passions. In other stories, the complexities of everyday life are depicted: a young couple who settle their marital differences by boxing, a man who tries to come to terms with a friend’s suicide, a brother who looks after a seriously disturbed sibling.
The stories in Last Notes dazzle with their intellect, wit and hidden emotional depths. A young yet mature voice, Dobozy joins the ranks of celebrated new Canadian writers who are making their own sense of history.
