The Powerful Metaphysical Confession of Russell Banks

Ten years since Russell Banks, one of America’s most nonconformist and committed writers, had not published a novel. Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, author ofAmerican Darling (2004), Under the reign of Bone (1995), Beautiful tomorrows (1991) or Affliction (1989) as well as several collections of short stories and poetry, the former president of the International Parliament of Writers (1998-2004) surprises with his thirteenth novel. Twilight and testamentary, nourished by personal memories, Oh, Canada disguises itself as a fragmented self-portrait whose biographical and chronological impacts scatter on both sides of the border between fiction and life. Everything seems real and maybe everything is wrong in the shifting shapes of memory of the writer, the narrator and the main character.