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Marie-Claire Blais These Festive Nights (Paperback). Further DetailsTitle: These Festive Nights Condition: New Author: Marie-Claire Blais Translator: Sheila Fischman Contributor: Sheila Fischman (Translated by), Lisa Moore (Introduction by) Format: Paperback EAN: 9781487004583 ISBN: 9781487004583 Publisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Genre: Fiction Release Date: 09/20/2018 Description: The first volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’ prize-winning novel cycle — acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction — reissued in a handsome A List edition, featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore. Originally published in 1995 under the title Soifs , the first novel in Marie-Claire Blais’ masterful series won the Governor General’s Award for French Fiction and was hailed by critics around the world as a tour de force, comparing Blais to such literary greats as Virginia Woolf, Dante, Sophocles, and Shakespeare. In this dazzling rendering, These Festive Nights , celebrated translator Sheila Fischman brings Blais’ novel to life for English-speaking readers. A sun-drenched paradise in the Gulf of Mexico surrounded by the glimmering blue sea; Renata is convalescing on this island poised between two worlds: between great wealth and extreme poverty, between the past and an uncertain future, between the beauty of the world and the horrors of history. During her time here, Renata becomes tormented by thirst — for justice, for pleasure, for intoxication — while all around her, festivities are going on in joint celebration of the birth of baby Vincent and the end of the twentieth century. Over the course of three days and three nights a flock of characters assembles — an entire spectrum of humanity is depicted in the grip of doubt and suffering. In this swirling, baroque fresco, Marie-Claire Blais captures the essence of our apocalyptic age, rendering it in powerfully evocative prose. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: CA Item Height: 215mm Item Length: 139mm Item Width: 16mm Item Weight: 340g Release Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
