Jocelyne Saucier

"With Il pleuvait des oiseaux, the author has excelled. Brilliant! And what humanity! Jocelyne Saucier is a magician of the soul."?Le Devoir Tom and Charlie are living out what's left of their lives on their own terms in a remote forest, two pot growers their only connection to the outside world. But then two women arrive?a photographer on the trail of survivors of a decades-ago forest fire and an elderly escapee from a psychiatric institution?and everything changes. Originally published in French, And the Birds Rained Down, the recipient of several prizes, is a haunting meditation on aging and self-determination. Jocelyne Saucier's novels have received countless prizes, including the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie. Rhonda Mullins's translation of Saucier's novel Jeanne's Road was nominated for the Governor General's Award.

And the Birds Rained Down

Roman. Geschenkausgabe

Ein Leben mehr

Une photographe du Herald Tribune part réaliser un reportage sur la région québécoise du Témiscamingue, dont les forêts ont été ravagées par de gigantesques incendies au début du XXe siècle. Elle y trouve une communauté de marginaux fantasques et solitaires, dont Tom et Charlie, deux vieillards qui ont survécu à l'incendie et vivent en ermites au fond des bois. D'abord méfiants puis déterminés à aider la photographe dans son enquête, les deux hommes voient leur quotidien chamboulé. Et, soudain, lorsque arrive Marie-Desneige, octogénaire énigmatique tout juste échappée de sa maison de retraite, la vie, puis contre toute attente l'amour, reprend peu à peu ses droits. Superbe récit, lumineux et tendre, Il pleuvait des oiseaux nous entraîne au plus profond des forêts canadiennes, où le mot liberté prend tout son sens, et l'émotion, brute et vive, jaillit à chaque page.

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Il pleuvait des oiseaux

Y llovieron pájaros

Piovevano uccelli

"C'est sur un train qui sillonnait les régions reculées du nord de l'Ontario qu'est née Gladys. Avec sa fratrie et les enfants de la forêt qu'ils côtoyaient au fil des haltes, elle a vécu sur les rails des années de pur ravissement. A rencontré l'amour. Qu'est-ce qui a conduit cette optimiste forcenée, devenue une femme âgée, à se jeter sur un train puis un autre, échappant à toutes les tentatives pour la ramener à la maison? La question obsèdera ses amis proches et lointains, de même qu'un certain activiste des chemins de fer qui n'en démordra pas : quelqu'un, quelque part, doit savoir ce qui a conduit Gladys si loin de Swastika"--Publisher's description.

À train perdu

Le Québec en train

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Jeanne sur les routes

Magdalena Sørensen

MTM:s talboksannotation: En fotograf stöter på tre udda existenser när hon söker överlevare efter en skogsbrand. De tre har dragit sig undan civilisationen och vill leva efter egna regler. Deras värld ställs på ända när fotografen gör entré. Än mer rubbas deras tillvaro när en fritagen mentalpatient vill skapa sig ett nytt liv bland männen. En bok om tragiska händelser och sagolika skeenden, om skog, om hopp och om kärlek som ger nytt liv

Det Regnade Fåglar

Twee oude mannen hebben gekozen voor de vrijheid in een stuk Canadees oerbos; hun vanzelfsprekende omgang met leven en dood zet hun toevallige bezoekers aan tot een nieuwe oriëntatie op hun eigen leven.

Het regende vogels

From the author and translator of And the Birds Rained Down, a 2015 CBC Canada Reads selection Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English Translation An abandoned mine. A large family driven by honour. And a source of pain, buried deep in the ground. We're nothing like other families. We are self-made. We are an essence unto ourselves, unique and dissonant, the only members of our species. Livers of humdrum lives who flitted around us got their wings burned. We're not mean, but we can bare our teeth. People didn't hang around when a band of Cardinals made its presence known. With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they're congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown in northern Quebec was built around. But as the siblings tell the tales of their feral childhood, we discover that Angèle, the only Cardinal with a penchant for happiness, has gone missing - although everyone has pretended not to notice for years. Why the silence? What secrets does the mine hold? 'Rhonda Mullins' translation of Twenty-One Cardinals expertly embodies the multiple voices in Jocelyne Saucier's complex novel. More than inhabiting the world of one writer, Mullins single-handedly performs the roles of an entire cast of characters. As a translator, her virtuosic deftness is in the restrained power of her writing.' - GG jury citation Praise for the French edition of Twenty-One Cardinals: 'With its explosive, poignant, funny and tragicstory and memorable characters, Les héritiers de la mine is an important novel ... Through the destiny of this large family, the author talks about Abitibi, where she lives, and of its broken dreams and cheated workers, the blind power of multinationals, the disappearance of villages and families decimated. Her protagonists have the makings of heroes, the stuff to withstand adversity; they may be local heroes, but their fight is universal.' - Voir (translated from the French)

Twenty-one Cardinals

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Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. “Sticky, sad, and sultry, Exhibitionist is a merry-go-round circling back to the tender, awkward parts of ourselves. Molly Cross-Blanchard allows her poems to ask the reader out for ice cream, to fart at a dinner party, to sprawl out on a chaise lounge, stare through a dusty skylight and whisper that they think they may love you. And that love will be unmistakably mutual.” — Mallory Tater, author of The Birth Yard and This Will Be Good “Multiple orgasms appear in the first line of the first poem in Exhibitionist. Multiple orgasms, as a relative image or a practice, elicit everything from mystical worship to moral panic. Molly Cross-Blanchard understands this diametric power. She nods to this power with countless crisp and explicit images throughout her debut collection. Read her poems first to marvel at the well-crafted voicing of sexuality. Read a second time to appreciate Cross-Blanchard’s beautiful charge of juxtaposition. Again and again, she places the erotic beside mundane so that both are transformed — a dirty basement carpet becomes the backdrop of profound intimacy and gas station coffee acts as a symbol of self-discovery.” –Amber Dawn, author of My Art is Killing Me and Sodom Road Exit One minute she’s drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she’s asking the sky to swallow her up: the narrator of Exhibitionist oscillates between a complete rejection of shame and the consuming heaviness of it. Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchard’s poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism. What this speaker wants more than anything is to be seen, to tell you the worst things about herself in hopes that you’ll still like her by the end.

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