Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Translation Larry Volt is one of the rare Quebec novels that deals with the FLQ crisis. Pierre Tourangeau captures a generation of young...
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Author: Tourangeau, Pierre, Lederhendler, LazerSummary:Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction -
Author: Nadeau-Dubois, Gabriel, Lederhendler, Lazer, Klein, NaomiSummary:On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: "What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will...
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Author: Awumey, Edem, Lederhendler, LazerSummary:Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation and the ReLit Awards As a small child, Askia was forced, along with his family, to wander the African desert as if under a curse....
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Author: Soucy, Gaetan, Lederhendler, LazerSummary:East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively...
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Author: LeBlanc, Perrine, Lederhendler, LazerSummary:The latest from Governor General’s Literary Award winner Perrine Leblanc is a mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone...
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Author: Farah, Alain, Lederhendler, LazerSummary:The writer Alain Farah is living in two time periods, and he feels out of place in both. At the opening of his story, we find ourselves at McGill in 1962 and 2012. But the real problem lies...