The lake
The latest from Governor General's Literary Award winner Perrine Leblanc is a mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad. In between the mountains and the sea, on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, there's...
| Main Author: | Leblanc, Perrine, 1980- |
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| Other Authors: | Lederhendler, Lazer, 1950- (Translator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
Toronto, ON :
Arachnide,
2015.
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| Summary: |
The latest from Governor General's Literary Award winner Perrine Leblanc is a mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad. In between the mountains and the sea, on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, there's a village called Malabourg. The village is surrounded by all the usual features of the region: a river with wild salmon, a stretch of the national highway, and a coniferous forest. But Malabourg has one unusual feature: in the heart of the forest there's a lake the kids call the tomb. It's the place where three young women have disappeared, one by one. |
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| Item Description: |
Translation of: Malabourg. |
| Physical Description: |
207 pages ; 21 cm. Issued also in electronic format. |
| ISBN: |
9781487000202 1487000200 |
| Author Notes: |
Perrine Leblanc was born in Montreal in 1980. Her first novel - published under the title L'homme blanc in Quebec and Kolia in France - won the Governor General's Literary Award for French Fiction, Quebec's Canada Reads competition, and the Grand prix du livre de Montréal. It was also longlisted for Elle magazine's Grand prix. Her second novel, Malabourg, was a finalist for the french literary Françoise-Sagan Prize in 2014. The english translation by Lazer Lederhendler, The Lake, was shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award for Translation in 2015. She lives in Montreal. Lazer Lederhendler is a Montreal-based translator specializing in contemporary Québécois fiction and nonfiction. His work has earned him distinctions in Canada and abroad, including multiple nominations for the Governor General's Literary Award, which he won in 2008 for the translation of Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner. He is also the translator of Gaétan Soucy's novel, The Immaculate Conception, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation, and the winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Translation Prize. Ravenscrag, Lederhendler's translation of a novel by Alain Farah, was published by Arachnide in April 2015. |