Elise Turcotte

Rhonda Mullins

Guyana

Albanie is thirty years old. Her daughter Maria is four. The two are on their own. They are given the rare freedom to pursue a life of the imagination, by virtue of Albanie's job. She works at the local library. Out of the passing of days, the flow of words, the aspects of life they explore together, a love story unlike any other is woven between Albanie and Maria ” one that enables them to feel and hear the sound of living things.

The Sound of Living Things

Ana and her son, Philippe, are grieving the loss of Philippe's father when Ana's hairstylist Kimi dies in an apparent suicide. Driven by a force she doesn't understand, Ana starts digging into Kimi's past in Guyana in 1978, which leads to nested tales of north and south, past and present, and to the Jonestown Massacre. A stunning translation of a masterpiece by one of Quebec's most important novelists. Elise Turcotte is a novelist and award-winning poet who has twice received the Prix Emile-Nelligan. Rhonda Mullins was a finalist for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation and translated Jocelyne Saucier's And the Birds Rained Down.

Albanie and her four-year-old daughter, Maria, find solace in the library, where their imaginations can roam free

Doris Barrette

"Annette, son frère et sa mère reviennent un soir d'un restaurant et s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont été cambriolés. Annette découvre la peur de la nuit. Elle et son frère décident d'agir. Un récit qui rend bien l'étrangeté de la nuit." Réf. La Sélection de livres pour enfants de Communication-Jeunesse 2001-2002.

Elise Turcotte

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