Tanya Tagaq

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them. A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this. Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love remains. Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget.

Split Tooth

Eisfuchs

Elle grandit au Nunavut dans les années 1970. Elle connaît la joie, l’amitié, l’amour des parents, l’art du camouflage et de la survie. Elle connaît l’ennui et l’intimidation. Elle connaît les ravages de l’alcool, la violence sourde, le courage d’aimer les petites peurs. Elle connaît le pouvoir des esprits. Elle scande en silence le pouvoir brut, amoral, de la glace et du ciel. Dans ce récit venu de loin, d’un espace intime et profond où les frontières s’effacent, Tanya Tagaq chronique les jours terribles d’un village écrasé sous le soleil de minuit, laissant dans la blancheur de la page l’empreinte sauvage d’une mythologie enchanteresse. Savant collage de descriptions hallucinées et de plongées intimistes, Croc fendu nous lance à la suite d’une héroïne inoubliable pour reconsidérer la différence entre le bon et le mauvais, l’animal et l’humain, le vrai et l’imaginé. Ici, la réalité se révèle aussi étrange que la fiction, à moins qu’il n’y ait jamais eu de différence entre les deux. Traduit de l’anglais par Sophie Voillot Titre original : Split Tooth

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