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Mai at the Predators' Ball

English · Paperback / Softback

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Translation of: Mai au bal des predateurs.

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MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS (1939-2021) was the internationally revered author of more than twenty-five books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she won four times, Blais was awarded the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, and several Guggenheim Fellowships. Marie-Claire Blais divided her time between Florida and Quebec.


Summary

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.

Literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America.

In this swirling fresco, we meet unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works, some new. This time, Blais lets us into the consciousness of fifteen-year-old Mai, an unusually perceptive young woman whose uncensored observations on femininity and youth, freedom and constraint belie her age. And, in the Porte du Baiser Saloon, we meet a group of boys who adorn themselves in colourful dresses and wigs before they take to the stage to sing and dance every evening after darkness falls. They open their arms to those who are excluded -- both men and women, triumphant and threatened, both free and bound.

With this astonishing new novel, Blais gives us a remarkable chronicle of our modern age teeming with characters who seem to represent the whole of humanity. She invites us to share the drama of perfect joy, the tragedy of happiness, and she gives us her best work yet.

Additional text

Praise for Augustino and the Choir of Destruction:
“The Divine Comedy of our time.” — Le Devoir

Product details

Authors Marie-Claire Blais, BLAIS MARIE-CLAIRE
Assisted by Nigel Spencer (Translation), Spencer Nigel (Translation)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 09.06.2012
 
EAN 9781770890053
ISBN 978-1-77089-005-3
No. of pages 280
Dimensions 139 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
Weight 269 g
Illustrations Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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