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Le mystère Villeneuve (Roman)
By Jean Beaunoyer. 2000
La Poune ressuscitée: roman-théâtre (Étoiles variables)
By Jean Désy. 2007
"Au moment où débute ce récit, qui est simultanément un roman et une pièce de théâtre, les choses ne vont…
pas bien pour Paul. Il vient de perdre sa fille Rosalie, morte dans un accident de voiture. Paul en veut au monde entier, et en particulier à son voisin qui, au dire de Paul, a causé la mort de Rosalie. Il conduisait vite et il avait bu. La fureur de Paul est extrême. Heureusement, le voisin s'enfuit. Apparaît alors la mère de Paul, morte depuis un certain temps, grande admiratrice de la Poune et tout aussi vulgaire qu'elle. Elle aime enlever ses dentiers et faire des grimaces. Elle est surtout libre d'esprit et prête à tout pour sauver son fils. "On va guérir tous les deux", dit la mère. Et elle multiplie les facéties, apparaît dans la fenêtre au moment où son fils fait l'amour avec son amie Sonia, est toujours là au mauvais moment, mais en même temps elle plane au-dessus de son fils, maternelle, omniprésente, ricaneuse et bénéfique..." -- 4e de couvMinou
By Maude-Éloïse. 2022
Roman poétique réaliste, Minou se déroule dans une urbanité d'asphalte, de piscines publiques, d'alcool et de petites violences perpétrées sous…
les lumières rouges d'une station-service. Il dévoile un personnage éponyme qui a soif de l'autre avec un grand A. Minou a des passions exponentielles, des envies fortes, des fantasmes sans pudeur et ses humeurs débordent jusqu'au bar du coin. Les autres ce sont Chaton, Kitty, Minette, Matoue et Mon Lapin avec qui Minou entretient des relations complexes, jamais binairesDerniers recours: suivi de, Souffler
By Pierre Ouellet. 2022
On est à bout de souffle. À bout de tout. En manque d'une main qui nous secoure, nous prenne par…
en dessous, nous soulève de terre et nous remette debout. C'est une Voix, en fait, qui vient à notre rescousse : une parole qu'on émet ou qu'on entend au plus profond de soi ou du plus lointain de l'espace-temps, qui nous prend par le bras et ne nous lâche plusIl y a des joies dont on ignore l'existence
By Cato Fortin. 2022
Une jeune femme adoptée par un couple de Québécois qui trouve du réconfort dans un restaurant, une enseignante de Montréal-Nord…
qui reconnecte avec ses racines grâce à ses élèves, deux femmes qui trouvent l'amour aux abords de la 40, une famille choisie qui imagine une maison de retraite en Gaspésie, un-e poète qui partage des portraits de ses ami-es, une religieuse qui joue au ballon-chasseur, une enfant qui apprend à retirer son nom de la bouche des autres, une fille qui trône sur une charrette, des chants religieux qui nous ramènent à la maison, la tête qui nous tourne dans une quinceañera, un périple depuis la plage vers Hochelaga, une série de réflexions sur notre rapport au mondeLovelie d'Haïti: 1
By Sylvain Meunier. 2003
En 1980, la petite Lovelie D’Haïti est arrachée à sa famille et à sa terre natale pour être placée dans…
une famille haïtienne, à Montréal. Lovelie comprend vite qu’elle est devenue l’esclave de cette famille, et que la réalité est tout autre que les rêves qu’on avait fait miroiter à ses parents. Maltraitée, elle devient la proie d’un gang de rue ayant mis sur pied un réseau de prostitution juvénile. Arrachée à ce milieu, Lovelie vit quelque temps dans une famille québécoise où elle mène enfin une vie heureuse. Mais de grands bouleversements surviennent encore. En Haïti, sa mère est morte, et son père arrive à Montréal avec ses frères et soeurs, ainsi que sa nou¬velle femme. Lovelie doit quitter sa famille d’adoption québécoise pour aller vivre avec son père. C’est le choc des cultures! Lovelie survivra à ces nouvelles épreuves. «Elle survivrait toujours. Elle n’en voulait à per¬sonne, ni à Chomsky, ni au hasard, ni même à Dieu, si c’était lui qui décidait. Chacun s’ar¬rangeait de son mieux avec son destin.»Une belle mort: Roman
By Gil Courtemanche. 2005
Lors d'une réunion de Noël, une famille fait face à l'imminence de la mort. Le grand-père, un homme jadis autoritaire,…
sournois, violent et détestable, souffre du Parkinson rigide. Pour son bien, on lui interdit plusieurs aliments, alors que la nourriture est son dernier plaisir. Le fils de ce dernier croit qu'il serait préférable d'abréger les souffrances du vieillard, mais son avis n'est pas unanimement partagé. Un roman engagé qui pose une réflexion sur le fait de "prolonger la vie [d'une personne] à son extrême limite, sans respect pour la dignité humaine" (E. Paquin), en le privant de tous les plaisirs et du même fait, de toute raison de survivre. Après le succès mondial d'Un dimanche à la piscine de Kigali, Courtemanche propose ici un récit intime et personnel dans lequel il "plaide d'une certaine manière pour l'euthanasie" (N. Petrowski). Marie-Hélène Paquette.Bibitsa, ou, L'étrange voyage de Clara Vic: roman. Berthold et Lucrèce
By Christiane Duchesne. 1991
Bibelas, l'ami de Clara Vic, rêve sans trop y croire du trésor de Bibitsa, la tante de son père. Ce…
trésor serait caché dans la maison familiale en Turquie. Or, Clara Vic part en vacances dans ce pays. Elle se lance donc à la recherche du fameux trésor. Son séjour en Turquie sera inoubliable, elle y découvrira une étonnante histoire. En 1992, ce livre a été sur la liste d'honneur Ibby à titre de meilleur roman pour les jeunes et a remporté le prix du livre M. Christie.Jumeau jumelle (Récit)
By Marisol Drouin. 2023
C'est un livre qui a été repris tant de fois, qui a déjà compté un millier de pages raturées. Et…
si c'était le dernier ? On y entre dans le temps du livre et dans le temps de la maladie : deux pièges monstrueux. Alors qu'une géante rouge grandit au centre du crâne de son frère, l'autrice tente de contenir les éclats de sa pensée. Son miroir jumeau lui renvoie les souvenirs de l'enfance, tout ce qui en elle a désiré que la vie soit magnifiée, sublimée. Elle n'a de cesse de réécrire encore et encore l'expérience de la peur et de la fragilitéAvec Troubles, nos ombres, Jennifer Bélanger aménage un espace sécuritaire où peuvent s'exprimer librement les personnes LGBTQ2IA+, hors des injonctions…
au bonheur et à la célébration. Ici, les ombres sont invitées à troubler la parole, avec leurs bagages remplis d'enfances difficiles, de traumatismes sociaux, de violences conjugales et de blessures encore vives qu'il importe de nommer pour valoriser nos expériences singulières, plurielles, complexesSaltsea
By David Helwig. 2006
A lovely, meditative novel, a story about memory, and about how what once was continues to affect what is and…
what will be. It is the story of a place -- a hotel on the shores of Prince Edward Island, of the family that used to own it, and the people who have been its caretakers.In the Field
By Claire Tacon. 2011
Ellie Lucan's about as far as she can get from the screwed-up teenager she used to be. She's got a…
doctorate, her husband's a prominent academic, and their children are excelling at a Montessori.When she loses her teaching job, however, she packs up her sons to spend the summer in her hometown. She finds her mother suffering from dementia and the house in squalor, and she is forced to confront small town prejudice towards her biracial sons.As Ellie is drawn back into the community, the strain on her marriage intensifies and she is forced to decide where her loyalties lie.Clare Tacon has an MFA in writing from the University of British Columbia and is a past editor of Prism Magazine. In the Field is her first novel.The Post-Office Girl
By Joel Rotenberg, Stefan Zweig. 1982
2009 PEN Translation Prize FinalistThe logic of capitalism, boom and bust, is unremitting and unforgiving. But what happens to human…
feeling in a completely commodified world? In The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig, a deep analyst of the human passions, lays bare the private life of capitalism.Christine toils in a provincial post office in post-World War I Austria, a country gripped by unemployment. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from Christine's rich American aunt inviting her to a resort in the Swiss Alps. Christine is immediately swept up into a world of inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed: nothing is impossible. But then, abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose. Christine returns to the post office, where yes, nothing will ever be the same.Christine meets Ferdinand, a bitter war veteran and disappointed architect, who works construction jobs when he can get them. They are drawn to each other, even as they are crushed by a sense of deprivation, of anger and shame. Work, politics, love, sex: everything is impossible for them. Life is meaningless, unless, through one desperate and decisive act, they can secretly remake their world from within.Cinderella meets Bonnie and Clyde in Zweig's haunting and hard-as-nails novel, completed during the 1930s, as he was driven by the Nazis into exile, but left unpublished at the time of his death. The Post-Office Girl, available here for the first time in English, transforms our image of a modern master's achievement.Bit Rot
By Douglas Coupland. 2016
Bit Rot, a new collection from Douglas Coupland that explores the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being…
shredded, is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix... you can't stop with just one."Bit rot" is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, "Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones." Bit Rot the book explores the ways humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness. Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends. Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life. The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland's legion of fans hungry for his observations about our world. For almost three decades, his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction, and his phrase-making. Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit, surprise and delight.From the Hardcover edition.The Attempt
By Magdaléna Platzová, Alex Zucker. 2016
"The Attempt is historical fiction at its best. Through its narrator's archival approach to his material, the book explores the…
intimate lives of a pair of fervent idealists, as well as a robber baron and his family. The result is a vivid, poignant narrative about political upheaval, both in the past and the present." -SIRI HUSTVEDT, author of The Blazing WorldWhen a Czech historian becomes convinced he's the illegitimate great-grandson of an infamous anarchist who attempted an assassination while living in the United States, he travels to New York to investigate. Arriving in Manhattan during the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement, his research takes him further back into the past-from the Pittsburgh home of a nineteenth-century US industrialist to 1920s Europe, where a celebrated anarchist couple is on the run from the law.Based on the lives of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, The Attempt is a novel about the legacy of radical politics and relationships-one that traverses centuries and continents to deliver a moving, powerful story of personal and political transformation.Magdaléna Platzová is the author of six books, including two novels published in English: Aaron's Leap, a Lidové Noviny Book of the Year Award finalist, and The Attempt, a Czech Book Award finalist. Her fiction has also appeared in A Public Space and Words Without Borders. Platzová grew up in the Czech Republic, studied in Washington, DC, and England, received her MA in Philosophy at Charles University in Prague, and has taught at New York University's Gallatin School. She is now a freelance journalist based in Lyon, France.I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth
By Margaret Atwood. 2012
'"Time isn't the same in dreams," says Charis, who likes reading about what's going on in her head when she…
isn't awake, though sometimes, thinks Roz, it's hard to tell the difference. "In dreams, nobody's dead, really. That's what the man who...he says, in dreams the time is always Now."' Long ago, when they were all a lot younger, Zenia stole a man from each of them. Then she died. Now she's come back. Or has she? There's a lot more than one kind of ghost. Margaret Atwood revisits her classic characters from The Robber Bride. This story first appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of The Walrus magazine."America's preeminent writer of prehistoric history [writes] ... . a book of hearts and minds." Grace Cavalieri, award-winning author, host…
of The Poet and the Poem from the US Library of Congress.After years of abuse from his father, Wing leaves the only home he's ever known. As the male lion leaves its pride, he must find a new home or die. He is sixteen, frail, injured, and alone in the mountainous untamed and untouched wilderness of Mexico of 250,000 BC. Wing struggles to survive, proving himself against a bear, where he learns elementary freedom. Award-winning writer of prehistoric fiction Bonnye Matthews' novella, Freedom, 250,000 BC, brings to life primitive early Americans through Wing's growing understanding of what freedom is and its importance for life.Freedom, 250,000 BC is dedicated to the archaeological site south of Puebla, Mexico at the Valsequillo Reservoir. The site is an amazingly rich prehistoric view of the glory and infamy of human life in the Americas, specifically Mexico, in 250,000 BC. "The outstanding Winds of Change series is highly and enthusiastically recommended for personal reading lists, as well as both community and academic library historical fiction collections." Midwest Book ReviewSleep of Memory (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
By Mark Polizzotti, Patrick Modiano. 2018
The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations Patrick…
Modiano’s first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author’s past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive underside of love, the dreams and follies of youth, the vagaries of memory, and the melancholy of loss. Writing from the perspective of an older man, the narrator relives a key period in his life through his relationships with several enigmatic women—Geneviève, Martine, Madeleine, a certain Madame Huberson—in the process unearthing his troubled relationship with his parents, his unorthodox childhood, and the unsettled years of his youth that helped form the celebrated writer he would become. This is classic Modiano, utilizing his signature mix of autobiography and invention to create his most intriguing and intimate book yet.Once a Runner: A Novel
By John L. Parker Jr.. 1990
Originally self-published in 1978, Once a Runner captures the essence of competitive running—and of athletic competition in general—and has become…
one of the most beloved sports novels ever published.Inspired by the author’s experience as a collegiate champion, the story focuses on Quenton Cassidy, a competitive runner at fictional Southeastern University whose lifelong dream is to run a four-minute mile. He is less than a second away when the turmoil of the Vietnam War era intrudes into the staid recesses of his school’s athletic department. After he becomes involved in an athletes’ protest, Cassidy is suspended from his track team. Under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, Bruce Denton, a graduate student and former Olympic gold medalist, Cassidy gives up his scholarship, his girlfriend, and possibly his future to withdraw to a monastic retreat in the countryside and begin training for the race of his life against the greatest miler in history. A rare insider’s account of the incredibly intense lives of elite distance runners, Once a Runner is an inspiring, funny, and spot-on tale of one man’s quest to become a champion.The Book of Collateral Damage (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
By Sinan Antoon. 2016
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s…
fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood’s project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland’s past and its present—destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes—in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.