The novel won the Booker Prize in 1993.
It also won the 1992 Governor General's Awards for fiction.
A film version was released in 1996.
... mi²). 37.6 km² (14.5 mi²) of it is land and 4.1 km² (1.6 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 9.81% water. Demographics As of the census of ...