Pilgrim

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 486. Pictorial card covers, in a dust jacket with French flaps.

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize. "I have lived many times, Dr. Jung." A battle of wills between C.G. Jung and a mysterious patient who calls himself Pilgrim, in a Zürich sanatorium in 1912. The inspiration for The Dream Healer, a contemporary opera by Lloyd Burritt, based on a libretto by Christopher Allan and Don Mowatt, and premiered in March 2008 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia. It featured mezzo-soprano Judith Forst as Lady Sybil Quartermaine, John Avey as Carl Jung, and Roelof Oostwould as Pilgrim.

Findley was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Edgar Award. He was the only three-time recipient of the Canadian Authors Association Award, bestowed for fiction, non-fiction, and drama. He served as an Officer of the Order of Canada and, in France, as Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. ''[A]n intense, bewitching mix of mystery, religion, history, psychology and philosophy that challenges and provokes while still managing to entertain.'' –James Polk, The New York Times Book Review