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Six for 2016
J.C. Sutcliffe chooses six Quebec translations to watch for in 2016.
Post Tagged with: "Héliotrope"
Review, Translation
Nina
A straightforward detective story full of great, gritty, and questionable characters quickly spins into a self-reflexive narrative, twisted in on itself.
Review, Translation
Preaching to the Fish
Le sermon aux poissons is the first book in a Lisbon-based trilogy that loves nothing more than to blur the lines between myth and reality.
Review, Translation
The Multicoloured Album
When, at the moment of her last rites, the priest asked my great-grandmother if she was afraid of death, she answered, “Death, Father, I have seen it 17 times.”
Review, Translation
In the Army
We’d embed ourselves in the Canadian Forces like undercover journalists…beat them at their own game and come out with first-hand knowledge.
Review, Translation
On the Pleasure of Hating
Antoine is an equal opportunity hater. To enjoy Variétés Delphi we must join him. “As we read we throw aside the trammels of civilization, the flimsy veil of humanity. ‘Off, you lendings!’”