The Immaculate Conception

von Gaetan Soucy

336 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit's foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell.Originally published in 1994 as L'Immaculee conception, this is the novel that established Gaetan Soucy as a powerful new literary force in Quebec. In it, he echoes the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Immaculate Conception was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2006.

• ISBN: 9780887847837
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2007
• Größe: 197 x 125 mm
• Verlag: House of Anansi Press
• Übersetzung: Lazer Lederhendler