Wednesday Night at the End of the World



by Hélène Rioux
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

ISBN 9781897151426 | 5.125" x 7.625" | TPB with French Flaps | $21
Categories:Fiction - Literary, Translations

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Winner of the Prix Ringuet of the Académie des lettres du Québec (2008)
Winer of the Prix France-Québec (jury prize) (2007)
Shortlisted for the Prix Biblioblog (2008)
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award (2007)

Synopsis

Winter Solstice. A diner in Montreal. A movie. A photograph. A name. What may seem like floating bits of trivia are actually the anchor points of our lives, the details that tell us who we are and where we are going. They are the air we breathe, shared between strangers without a second thought. They are the avenues through which humanity flows. Rioux portrays our world the way Escher would a staircase: intricate, troubling, fantastic, and always surprising. Wednesday Night at the End of The World is a celebration of all that we have in common — that despite loneliness, none of us are truly alone.
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"Takes the reader on a journey that goes beyond the predictable, delivering surprises as well as mystery. It gives us an inkling of a world of fragmented individuals, held together not by the bonds of kinship, friendship, or solidarity, but by escapist needs and habits."
— Montreal Review of Books
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