Critically acclaimed Canadian author Colin McAdam will be at Biblioasis Bookshop (1520 Wyandotte Street East Windsor, ON) to discuss his 2026 Giller Prize nominated novel DAPHNIS AND CHLOE on Thursday November 12th at 7pm.This event is free and open to everyone. Refreshments will be provided.
About DAPHNIS AND CHLOE
A fable about love and innocence and beauty, and finding a light through the darkness.
There’s a city on an island in the Pacific that can only be reached by ferry, a city where a mechanic named Frank opens a garage with his old friend Charlie. Both men marry the women they love but are unable to have children. There are drugs on the streets of this city that take away pain for strings of minutes and bring synthetic rapture; and by these streets the couples are given two babies, abandoned under strange circumstances. The boy they name Daphnis, and the girl Chloe.
And so begins a book unlike anything else, a modern retelling of an ancient story. Part Ovid and part True Romance, and narrated by Eros himself, Daphnis and Chloe offers a pulpy meditation on love and beauty, on people triumphing over darkness by wrestling deep within it, on the solace of art, and on the simple but profound pleasure provided to a blind old man as he holds his wife’s hand and listens to an increasingly familiar story.
About Colin McAdam
Colin McAdam is an internationally acclaimed novelist with a PhD from Cambridge on translations of Ancient Greek—the original language of Daphnis and Chloe. He has written non-fiction for Harpers, Granta, Salon, and Hazlitt, among other journals, and his novels have won or been shortlisted for several prizes including the Amazon Best First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize and the Giller Prize. He lives in Quebec.
Event venue
Biblioasis Bookshop, 598 Gladstone Ave, Windsor, ON N9A, Canada
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