Roch Carrier

With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.

The Hockey Sweater

Transl. by Sheila Fischman

La Guerre, Yes Sir!

"The Hockey Sweater", the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake. It encapsulates everything you need to understand French and English Canada, told with humour and love. This edition features a new introduction.

The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories

Set in Quebec during the Duplessis era. The premier calls an election and announces the construction of a road through a remote village. In return for jobs, the villagers are expected to vote for the premier's party. A dark novel of love, politics and corruption.

Heartbreaks Along the Road

No Country Without Grandfathers

This hilarious novel is about one mans fight against high-rise development and urban madness.

They Won't Demolish Me!

"In nineteenth-century Quebec a woman plots the murder of her husband after the death of their child. After brewing a poison, she is arrested, denounced as a witch, and in a devastating conclusion, released from her terrifying obsessions."

La Dame Qui Avait Des Chanes Aux Chemilles. English

Gilles Pelletier

Describes the celebration and tradition of a family in a small Canadian village on New Year's Day

A Happy New Year's Day

La Guess, Yes Sir! is a wedding, a funeral, and best of all, a full company of Carrier's joyful, blaspheming, vigorous characters.

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