Waking In Eden
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[quote style=“boxed”]Virgo casts his intense gaze at a universe full of malevolence and beauty and dreams. He allows a reader to share his vision, and we should be grateful.” —Globe and Mail[/quote]
[quote style=“boxed”]Virgo is fearless … these stories teem with the beauties and mystery of life.” —Toronto Star[/quote]
Waking in Eden consists of twelve short fables whose strands are drawn together by the long title piece. It is the story of Tadeusz and Helena, refugees from totalitarianism. He works with porcelain, she is serving a prison term for her drunken hit-and-run killing of a child. Her past has even more terrible things to overcome than her present situation, as she and Tadeusz reach towards each other, wanting to give a shape to their world when she is released.
The title story won the National Magazine Award for fiction (1990).
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