num_pages: 305
description: When a lonely, middle-aged Japanese-Canadian woman is implicated in the murder of a beautiful young girl in a small Ontario suburb, the whole community is forced to come to terms with its dark past. A first novel. 12,500 first printing.
language: English
title: The Electrical Field
titlecomplete: The Electrical Field
characters: Chisako
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Canadian Literature, Mystery, Canada, Japan, Literature, Adult, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 404
places: Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Canada-Japan Literary Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book Overall, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Kiriyama Prize
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc