Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Wiebe was born on October 4, 1934, in an isolated farm community of about 250 people in a rugged but lovely region near Fairholme, Saskatchewan. His parents had escaped Soviet Russia with five children in 1930, part of the last generation of homesteaders to settle the Canadian West, and part of a Mennonite history of displacement and emigration through Europe and Asia to North and South America since the seventeenth century. In 1947 his family gave up their bush farm and moved to Coaldale, Alberta, a town east of Lethbridge peopled largely by Ukrainians, Mennonites, Mormons, and Central Europeans, as...
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eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-602-8 (1-55199-602-2)
April 13, 2011 | $13.99
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For readers of Wiebe's Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest and Sandra Birdsell's The Russländer.
An epic novel on the Mennonite experience, by a Governor General's Award-winning author.
eBook | 400 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-3644-6 (0-7710-3644-2)
January 13, 2009 | $17.99
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First published in 1933, Fruits of the Earth has come to be regarded as a landmark in Canadian fiction, an unparalleled depiction of the ordeals endured by the early pioneers of the western prairies. In his portrait of Abe Spalding, Frederick Philip Grove captures the essence of the pioneering spirit: its...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9471-2 (0-7710-9471-X)
December 9, 2008 | $19.99
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For readers of Wiebe's Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest and Sandra Birdsell's The Russländer.
An epic novel on the Mennonite experience, by a Governor General's Award-winning author.
From the eBook edition.
Trade Paperback | 408 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-3645-3 (0-7710-3645-0)
January 29, 2008 | $22.95
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First published in 1933, Fruits of the Earth has come to be regarded as a landmark in Canadian fiction, an unparalleled depiction of the ordeals endured by the early pioneers of the western prairies. In his portrait of Abe Spalding, Frederick Philip Grove captures the essence of the pioneering spirit: its...
Paperback | 408 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-3454-1 (0-7710-3454-7)
February 25, 1995 | $14.95
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“What can that mean, I and my family will have a ‘reserve of one square mile’?”
So asks Big Bear of Governor Morris, come to impose a square treaty on the round, buffalo-covered world of the Plains Cree. As the buffalo vanish and the tension builds to the second Riel Rebellion, Big...
