The Perfect Circle
by Pascale Quiviger
translated by Sheila Fischman
ISBN 9781897151044 | 5.125" x 7.625" | TPB with French Flaps | $22.95
Categories:Fiction - Literary, Translations
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Synopsis
Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (French language)Shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
A Cormorant Fiction Trade Paperback Original
Marianne, a young Montrealer, has come to live in Tuscany to draw and write and examine her life. Here she meets Marco, a temptingly seductive man who still lives in his mother's house in the village and who's not prepared to commit himself to anything resembling a shared life. Though he breaks her heart, again and again, Marianne can only avoid him by returning to Canada. This first novel by Pascale Quiviger is marked by its luminous language and its unstinting look at what makes Marianne, and Marco, and, indeed, an entire village and the world beyond it, tick.
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"Quiviger captures Italy the way E.M. Forster captured it, not in Room With A View, but in Where Angels Fear to Tread, exposing the airtight world, and the family resisting all things modern and foreign."
— Cnadian Literature
