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2016., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic Rio Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential translations series Volume: 35.Summary Note: "Selection of award-winning short stories featuring girls and women at various stages of their lives."--
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2012., Ekstasis Editions Call No: QWF Fic Rio Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On a Spanish-scented island, a languorous tango unfolds. People come and go, fortunes rise and fall like waves of the sea, men and women change partners but the dance goes on. Although peopled with a colourful cast of characters, to one solitary observer this island paradise is a place where old elephants come to die. Hélène Rioux tells the exuberant tales of an ex-pat community. The elephant, used as a metaphor, becomes a portal to better understand human nature as the desires, degeneration and despair of the islandœs residents are revealed in sometimes disturbing stories of irony and pathos. With an eye for detail and emotional nuance, Hélène Rioux brings a compassionate detachment to these tales of love, loss, cruelty and art as she writes of the memorable characters encountered in the Elephantsœ Graveyard.
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2022., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic Rio Edition: 1st ed.. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential translations; Volume: 56Summary Note: Autumnal equinox. The End of the World sails on the Aegean Sea. Aboard is Marjolaine, a cook who recently lost her job at a greasy spoon. She rubs shoulders with chess players, a bookseller, a retired professor, a romance novelist, a blue-haired singer ... Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet, people play cards, while others celebrate, read, dream or cry, and still others die. All these lives intersect, meet up again, disappear, and above all tell us that there is not only one truth. In The End of the World is Elsewhere, volume four of her Fragments of the World tetralogy, Hélène Rioux creates an intricate and complex novel filled with topical issues and references to history and literature.
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2014., Quattro Books Call No: QWF Fic Heb Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is the story of a man who would rather remain anonymous. He has his reasons. The boutique where used to work has been condemned, and so has the house where he rented a room, torn down to make way for a luxury hotel. His demanding boss vows her love for him; he feels compelled to perform. Then she fires him.The woman he loves, the much younger wife of a professor who dies in mysterious circumstances, has disappeared. Is he merely a pawn? Life holds many secrets, especially when, like in a game of chess, the pawn reaches the last row. We understand that a person can only be exploited so far . . .
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c2009., Cormorant Books Call No: Fic Rio Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Fragments of the world.
