The Hollow Beast

• In the tradition of great comic works like Don Quixote, or Thomas Pynchon adapted by Looney Tunes. No, really.


• First published in French in 2018 by Le Quartanier, French publishers of Stephane Larue's The Dishwasher (Biblioasis 2019). Like The Dishwasher and Kevin Lambert's You Will Love What You Have Killed, this is a debut novel by a rising Quebec star and we anticipate similar bookseller enthusiasm for Bernard's epic.


• Bernard has also been a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction and the 2018 Governor General's Awards and winner of the 2018 Quebec Booksellers' Prize, the 2018 Jovette-Bernier Award, and the 2017 Québec-Ontario Award. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Info autore

Originally from Carleton-sur-Mer in the Gaspé region of Quebec, Christophe Bernard studied literature in Quebec City, Aix-en-Provence and Berlin. A prolific literary translator, Bernard was a finalist for the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-to-French Translation. The Hollow Beast, a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in French, won the Quebec-Ontario Prize, the Quebec Booksellers' Prize and the Jovette-Bernier Prize. Christophe Bernard lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Lazer Lederhendler is a four-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and won the award in 2008 for his translation of Nikolski. His translation of The Immaculate Conception by Gaétan Soucy was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the French-to-English Translation Prize from the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Lederhendler lives in Montreal, where he teaches English and film at the Collège international des Marcellines.

Riassunto

In 1911, in a hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Monti collapses with his head across the goal line, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts. Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls over three generations, one hundred years and dozens of alcohol-soaked tall tales, from treachery in northern gold-mining camps to the appearance of a legendary beast that can be elusive and playful or ferocious and terrifying. It is up to Monti's grandson, François, to make sense of the vendetta between Monti and Bradley that changes the destiny of their town and everyone who lives there. In a sumptuous, unpredictable language that creates dozens of comic scenes, Christophe Bernard reveals himself as a master of perpetual storytelling.

Prefazione

• Print run: 5,000 copies


• Co-op available


• Advance reader copies


• Edelweiss digital review copies


• National TV & radio campaign


• National print media campaign


• Online and social media campaign


• E-book available at same time as print edition


• Virtual launch and festival appearances


• Excerpts in Lit Hub, Electric Lit
  

Testo aggiuntivo

Praise for The Hollow Beast

"Christophe Bernard has hollowed out the past like a beast and, like an alchemist, has excavated a language of pure gold. He has added a great, savage nugget to Quebec literature."—La Presse (Montreal)

"Christophe Bernard scores a huge hit with The Hollow Beast … He gives birth to a sort of crazed novel in the form of a fireworks show … Bernard slips into the patchwork skin of a kind of Thomas Pynchon crossbred with Rabelais and Victory-Lévy Beaulieu (with a pint of James Joyce) … His writing is flamboyant with vernacular flights. An example of utter mastery."—Le Devoir (Montreal)

"The reader swims in sheer delirium reading The Hollow Beast, a novel from the Gaspé that takes place over several generations. Passionate and unsettling ... A universe plugged in at 10,000 volts!”—Radio Canada

"A tale with plenty of momentum that covers a whole century and is at once fantastic, funny, cruel, brilliant."—Le Journal de Montréal

"A family saga unlike any other … And it's funny! I envy this writer's talent."—L'Actualité (Montreal)

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christophe Bernard
• Con la collaborazione di: Lazer Lederhendler (Traduzione)
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.04.2023, ritardato
• EAN: 9781771964586
• ISBN: 978-1-77196-458-6
• Pagine: 600
• Serie: Biblioasis International Translation Series
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi