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Bolen Books, in partnership with House of Anansi Press, is honoured to announce that we'll be hosting multiple award winning author Patrick DeWitt for an event in support of his follow-up to 2011's sensation Sisters Brothers, Undermajordomo Minor, which releases September 5th.

Sisters Brothers was the winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Prix des libraires du Quebec and the Stephen Leacock Medal. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize.

Undermajordomo Minor is already receiving tonnes of early praise, and is sure to be one of the biggest books to released this fall. Don't miss out on the opportunity to meet the author in person and hear all about it!

As always, there is no charge for admission to this in-store event. But do arrive early and get a good seat!

In the meantime, here's a little more about Undermajordomo Minor from the publisher...

"A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, international bestselling author Patrick deWitt’s new novel is about a young man named Lucien (Lucy) Minor, who accepts employment at the foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux.

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux. In the local village, he also encounters thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome partisan soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder.

Undermajordomo Minor is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Governor General’s Award–winning author of The Sisters Brothers. It is an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing."

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