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  • These Festive Nights

    Translated by Sheila Fischman ...
    Series Book 1 - Soifs Cycle
    The first volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’ prize-winning novel cycle — acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction — reissued in a handsome A List edition, featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore**.**Originally published in 1995 under the title Soifs, the first novel in Marie-Claire Blais’ masterful series won the Governor General’s Award for French ... Read more

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  • Together by the Sea

    Translated by Katia Grubisic ...
    Series Book 10 - Soifs Cycle
    The tenth and final instalment of the legendary Soifs cycleFor her eighteenth birthday, Mai hosts a party on the unnamed island where her family lives, on the edge of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.The celebrants include Daniel, Mai's father and a writer; the children of Bahama Street who sing in Pastor Jeremy’s church; the wealthy artists and famous poets; the refugees and ex-cons; the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thunder and Light

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 2 - Soifs Cycle
    The second volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’s prize-winning novel cycle — acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction — reissued in a handsome A List edition.Originally published in 2001, Thunder and Light is the second volume in Marie-Claire Blais’s prize-winning Soifs series, hailed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction. Powered ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 3 - Soifs Cycle
    In Augustino and the Choir of Destruction literary legend and three-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the third volume in the prize-winning series (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction, and Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom) acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction.Augustino and the ... Read more

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  • Nothing for You Here, Young Man

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 6 - Soifs Cycle
    In the latest installment in her award-winning series, Marie-Claire Blais reintroduces us to Petites Cendres, familiar from other books in the cycle, and lets us into the lives of two other unforgettable characters. She shows us, once again, how creativity and hope and suffering and exclusion intersect.There is the writer who is stranded in an airport of the South Island, he is held captive ... Read more

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  • Mai at the Predators' Ball

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 5 - Soifs Cycle
    Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.Literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America.In this swirling fresco, we meet unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous ... Read more

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  • Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 4 - Soifs Cycle
    With this astounding fourth novel in her ongoing series of contemporary masterpieces (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction, and Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom), Marie-Claire Blais invites us again to enter a complex circle of unforgettable characters. But this time, the tone is different: Blais' writing has acquired a new, buoyant, electrifying rhythm -- ... Read more

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  • A Twilight Celebration

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 8 - Soifs Cycle
    The latest work in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s masterful novel cycle, A Twilight Celebration examines the prophetic side of the writer and the burden that falls to him in a world whose fate is yet to be determined.Daniel, a middle-aged novelist and loving father alienated from one of his sons and unsure how to care for his daughter, is on his way to an international ... Read more

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  • The Acacia Gardens

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 7 - Soifs Cycle
    What anxiety grips Petites Cendres as he runs towards the sea in the sunshine on a warm tropical morning? Shouldn’t he be reassured by the thought that he now lives at the Acacia Gardens, a comfortable home where all find care, understanding, and healing? How can Fleur, the young musical prodigy, listen to the diabolical confessions of Wrath, the fugitive priest, without shuddering? And, can ... Read more

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  • Songs for Angel

    Translated by Katia Grubisic ...
    Series Book 9 - Soifs Cycle
    The ninth novel in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s extraordinary Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel is an impassioned interrogation of violence and hate that takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.In the penultimate installment of the magnificent and ambitious Soifs cycle, widely regarded as one of the most original and ambitious endeavors ... Read more

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