The Alien House



by Elise Turcotte
translated by Sheila Fischman

ISBN 9781896951751 | 5.125" x 7.625" | HC | $29.95
Categories:Fiction - Literary, Translations

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Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation

Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award

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.
Reviews
"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

"Reading Elise Turcotte's The Alien House is a little like overhearing the thoughts of one of Ingmar Bergman's nearly silent film heroines ... leaves you feeling like you've touched on somthing profound yet unexplainable." - Quill & Quire
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