Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has
dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard
before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything
you've ever read.
TANYA TAGAQ is an improvisational performer, avant-garde composer, and experimental recording artist who won the 2014 Polaris Music Prize for her album Animism, a work that disrupted the music world in Canada and beyond with its powerfully original vision. Tagaq contorts elements of punk, metal, and electronica into a complex and contemporary sound that begins in breath, a communal and fundamental phenomenon. While the Polaris Prize signaled an awakening to Tanya Tagaq's art and messages, she has been touring and collaborating with an elite international circle of artists for over a decade. Tagaq's improvisational approach lends itself to collaboration across genres, and recent projects have pulled her in vastly different directions, from contributing guest vocals to a F**ked Up song (a hardcore punk band from Toronto) to premiering a composition made for Kronos Quartet's Fifty for the Future collection, and composing a piece for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Tanya's most recent album Retribution was released in fall 2016.
Audiobook finalist for the 2019 Audie Awards (Literary Fiction &
Classics category)
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book
Design - Prose Fiction
"Tagaq's surreal meld of poetry and prose transmutes the Arctic's
boundless beauty, intensity, and desolation into a wrenching
contemporary mythology." -The New Yorker
"Though the protagonist's coming-of-age story, generously and
lovingly documented by Tagaq, is the anchor, Split Tooth is
not a book that can be fully absorbed in one sitting. It's possible
to sink deeper and deeper into the narrative with each successive
reading. Like a smirking teenager, Split Tooth blithely gives
typical literary expectations the finger, daring us to see and
experience narrative as chaotic, emotional, and deeply instinctive.
And it succeeds." -Quill and Quire
"Tanya's book is one of the most incredible things I've ever read.
It's deeply profound, emotional and personal, and furthers her
artistic experimentation and genius into a new realm. I love her
even more after reading it, and I'm once again awed by her talent."
-Jesse Wente, CBC Broadcaster
"[A] forceful coming-of-age tale." -Toronto Life
magazine
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