Reflections Of A Siamese Twin: Canada At The Beginning Of The Twenty First Century

by John Ralston Saul

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In Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye from a reinterpretation of the Western world to an examination of Canada itself. Caught up in crises—political, economic, and social—Canada continues to flounder, unable to solve or even really identify its problems.

Instead, we assert absolute differences between ourselves: we are English or we are French; Natives or Europeans; early immigrants or newly arrived; from the east or from the west. Or we bow to ideologies and deny all differences in the name of nationalism, unity, or equality. In a startling exercise in reorientation, John Ralston Saul makes sense of Canadian myths—real, false, denied—and reconciles them with the reality of today's politics, culture, and economics.

  • ISBN10 0140259880
  • ISBN13 9780140259889
  • Publish Date 6 October 1998
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Penguin Canada