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The
Alien House
by Élise
Turcotte
Novel
ISBN:
978-1-896951-75-1
240 pages
Hard cover
5.125” x 7.625”
$29.95 |
The
Alien House
by Élise
Turcotte
translated by Sheila Fischman
Shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's
Literary Award for Translation.
Winner
of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award.
"Sheila Fischman has accurately reproduced the atmosphere of
distance and detachment conveyed in the original work. She successfully
renders the sense of alienation and pared-down simplicity of Turcotte's
novel."
— GG Awards section of the Canada Council.
Click
to listen to Sheila Fischman discuss The
Alien House (wave, 26.8mb).
Winner of the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award in French,
The Alien House is the story of a medieval scholar, Élisabeth,
who is forced out of her cloistered intellectual life by the loss
of her lover of six years and her father’s imminent departure
to renew acquaintance with a woman he loved long ago.
About Élise Turcotte.
About Sheila Fischman. |
