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April 2011: Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
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A very short biography of Trofimuk (but all you really need to know is that he is a Canadian, from Edmonton, and he rocks):Thomas Trofimuk is an Edmonton-born writer who writes poetry, short-fiction, and novels. His first novel, The 52nd Poem, was published by Great Plains Publications in the spring of 2002. The book went on to win a few awards including the 2003 Alberta Novel of the Year and the City of Edmonton Book Prize. A second novel, Doubting Yourself to the Bone, was published in the fall of 2006 by Cormorant Books and has received high praise from critics —including being named as one of the top 100 must read books for 2006 by the Globe & Mail. In 2009, Trofimuk’s third novel, Waiting for Columbus, burst onto the international stage, with a Canadian (McClelland & Stewart) and US (Knopf- Doubleday) release. In 2010, the book was released in the UK (Picador), Serbia and Brazil. The book was also released as an “audio book” in the US through Blackstone Audiobooks (2009).
Trofimuk is a founding father of Edmonton’s Raving Poets movement and he’s an irregular reviewer for the Edmonton Journal book page. His poems and short stories have been published in literary magazines and journals across Canada, and broadcast on CBC radio.
Trofimuk is happily married to his first reader, Cindy-Lou. And in fact, they do have children—a couple of fine young men in their early 20s, and a daughter.
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On a beautiful April morning, a man is brought to an insane asylum in contemporary Spain, claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Found in the treacherous Straight of Gibraltar, he is clearly delusional and has suffered a trauma so severe that he has turned away from reality. As he spins the tall tales of adventure and romance of someone who existed in the late fifteenth century, the lonely Nurse Consuela can’t help but be enchanted by his spirit. Who is Columbus? Where did he come from? This dazzling story about one man’s painstaking search for truth and loyalty will haunt the reader long after the final page.