Query: Manitoba set novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Street of Riches
Wild Geese (novel)
The Stone Angel
The Diviners
Lost in the Barrens
The Sunless City
A Year of Lesser
Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection
Quantum Night
Larry's Party
Incident at Hawk's Hill
The Curse of the Viking Grave
A Complicated Kindness
Kiss of the Fur Queen
Evidence from documents: Street of Riches: The book covers themes including the social divide between the French Canadian and English Canadian communities in what were the twin cities of St. Boniface and Winnipeg, Manitoba, European immigration to the Canadian prairies, family dynamics and racial integration.
Wild Geese (novel): The story is set on the prairies of Manitoba
The Stone Angel: '''''The Stone Angel''''' is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Laurence. First published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart, it is perhaps the best-known of Laurence's series of five novels set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba.
The Diviners: The protagonist of the novel is Morag Gunn, a fiercely independent writer who grew up in Manawaka, Manitoba.
Lost in the Barrens: ''Two Against the North'' is an adventure story that takes place in northern Manitoba and southwestern North West Territories in 1935.
The Sunless City: The novel is about a prospector named Josiah Flintabbaty Flonatin who explores a bottomless lake in a submarine, and discovers a land where the norms of society are backwards. The title character is the namesake for the city of Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada.
A Year of Lesser: Johnny Fehr is a Mennonite Christian working as a salesman and living in a Canadian small town called Lesser, close to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection: A short prologue explains that the story, notes and images were those of Dr. Robert Twombly and were found in a remote cabin in the township of Churchill, Manitoba
Quantum Night: Professor Jim Marchuk is an experimental psychologist at the University of Manitoba and a subscriber to utilitarianism.
Larry's Party: In 1976, Larry Weller is twenty-six years old and employed as a florist in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Incident at Hawk's Hill: ''Incident at Hawk's Hill'' opens in 1870, on Hawk's Hill, the farm of William and Esther MacDonald, set in the Canadian Prairies about twenty miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The Curse of the Viking Grave: The novel is set in the northern Manitoban forests and in the Barrens to the north.
A Complicated Kindness: The novel is set in a small religious Mennonite town called East Village, a fictionalized version of Toews' hometown of Steinbach, Manitoba.
Kiss of the Fur Queen: The novel's main characters are Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis, two young Cree brothers from Eemanipiteepitat in northern Manitoba who are taken from their family and sent to a residential school.