Ana and her son, Philippe, are grieving the loss of Philippe's father when Ana's hairstylist Kimi dies in an apparent suicide. Driven by a force she doesn't understand, Ana starts digging into Kimi's past in Guyana in 1978, which leads to nested tales of north and south, past and present, and to the Jonestown Massacre. A stunning translation of a masterpiece by one of Quebec's most important novelists. Elise Turcotte is a novelist and award-winning poet who has twice received the Prix Emile-Nelligan. Rhonda Mullins was a finalist for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation and translated Jocelyne Saucier's And the Birds Rained Down.
Author
Élise Turcotte is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award for her novel La Maison étrangère and the Prix Émile-Nelligan for La voix de Carla in 1987, and for La terre pst idi in 1989. Her novel The Alien House was shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. Élise Turcotte lives in Montreal, where she has taught at the CEGEP de Vieux-Montréal since 1986. ********** Élise Turcotte a obtenu un baccalauréat en arts et une maîtrise en études littéraires à l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle a ensuite obtenu son doctorat à l'Université de Sherbrooke. Après la publication de recueils de poésie, elle aborde le roman, la nouvelle et fait paraître plusieurs livres pour enfants, tout en conservant un intérêt constant pour l'écriture poétique. Elle enseigne la littérature au Cégep du Vieux-Montréal. Le fonds d'archives d'Élise Turcotte est conservé au centre d'archives de Montréal de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
