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[2017], Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Mic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series Volume: 19.
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-- Dish washer.2019., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: Fic Lar Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series.Summary Note: It's winter in Montreal, 2002, when a graphic design student's gambling addiction starts to drag him under. In debt to the metal band that's commissioned him to draw their album cover and ensnared in lies to his friends and his cousin, he takes the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at La Trattoria, a high-end restaurant, where he finds himself thrust, on his first night, into roiling world of characters. A magnificent, hyperrealist debut, with a soundtrack by Iron Maiden, The Dishwasher plunges us into a world in which--for better or for worse--everyone depends on each other.
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c2013., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Seg Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series Volume: 11.Summary Note: When Alberto Ventura travels to Chile to attend the funeral of his father Roberto, a man both hated and loved by family and local people, he delves into the rumours that obscured his father's death to decide whether it was natural causes, vengeance, murder, or self-sacrifice. In doing so, Alberto find his own reputation at stake.
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2013., Biblioasis Call No: QWF 841 M517f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation seriesSummary Note: In a world where text is "as fluid as the rain we see running in the streets," and the printed word "a monument as fragile as the grass," what is the place of poetry? Impressionistic, seasonal, inspired by the Pleiade and the poets of present-day Quebec, this calendar of 144 "light sonnets" is a measured meditation on art and mutability.
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2023., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: Fic Ler Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series Volume: no. 42.Summary Note: A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was murdered. A stranger in a Fort-Detroit neighborhood coping with the ongoing effects of racial and economic injustice, she finds herself surrounded by poverty, pollution, violence--as well as the resilience of the residents, in whose stubborn generosity and carefully tended gardens she finds hope. When a strange intuition sends her into the woods of Parc Rouge, where the city's orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society, she can't imagine the strength she will find.
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-- Grandma nineteen and the Soviets' secrets.2014., Biblioasis Call No: Fic Ond Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series.Summary Note: By the beaches of Luanda, the Soviets are building a grand mausoleum in honour of the Comrade President. Granmas are whispering: houses, they say, will be dexploded, and everyone will have to leave. With the help of his friends Charlita and Pi (whom everyone calls 3.14), and with assistance from Dr. Rafael KnockKnock, the Comrade Gas Jockey, the amorous Gudafterov, crazy Sea Foam, and a ghost, our young hero must decide exactly how much trouble he{u2019}s willing to face to keep his Granma safe in Bishop{u2019}s Beach.
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2024., Biblioasis Click to access digital title. Series Title: Biblioasis International Translation Series.Summary Note: Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation • A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring Title Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge. 1911. A hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. With the score tied two-two in overtime, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck directly into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Pictou's momentum carries them both across the goal line in a spray of shattered teeth, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts-and Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls across three generations, one hundred years, and dozens of dastardly deeds. Fuelled by a bottomless supply of Yukon, the high-proof hooch that may or may not cause the hallucinatory sightings of a technicolor beast that haunts not just Monti but his descendants, it's up to Monti's grandson François-and his floundering doctoral dissertation-to make sense of the vendetta that's shaped the destiny of their town and everyone in it. Brilliantly translated into slapstick English by Lazer Lederhendler, The Hollow Beast introduces Christophe Bernard as a master of epic comedy.
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2020., Biblioasis Call No: Fic Qui Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series Volume: 29Summary Note: Sliding doors open and close automatically, exit to the left, entrance to the right. Beyond it, cars go by, and pedestrians and cyclists. A large park behaves as if nothing has happened. The mirage of a world intact. In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand - but despite their devoted efforts, there's no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world David now inhabits.
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2024., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF NEW Fic Lam Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series Volume: 48.Summary Note: Céline Wachowski, internationally renowned architect and accidental digital-culture icon, finally unveils her plans for the Webuy Complex, her first major public project commissioned by the city of Montreal, her hometown. But instead of the triumphant celebration she anticipates in at last bringing her reputation to bear in her own city, the project is immediately excoriated by critics, who accuse the her of callously destroying the social fabric of struggling neighborhoods, ushering in a new era of gentrification, and many even deadlier sins. Caught in the turmoil between her vision for a new Montreal and the protestors whose actions grow increasingly personal, Céline must make sense of the charges against herself and the milieu in which she finds the people she believes to be her friends. For the first time in danger of losing their footing, what fictions do they tell themselves to justify their privileges, and to maintain their position in the world that they themselves have built? A dazzling social novel set in the microcosm of the ultra privileged, May Our Joy Endure depicts with razor-sharp acuity the terrible beauty of wealth, influence, and art in the era of late capitalism.
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[2015], Biblioasis Call No: QWF 841.914 M517m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series Volume: no. 13.Summary Note: Telephone wires, dark as a line in a schoolboy`s notebook against the dawn... poetry.
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2018., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Seg Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series
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2022., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Lam Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series Volume: 39.Summary Note: When millworkers in Roberval, a northern Quebec logging town, go on strike, the conflict rips the close-knit community apart, and despite the workers' solidarity, their individual struggles and demands further escalate tensions within the group. They remain united by the desire to escape poverty and exact revenge on their boss, but when Brian Ferland decrees a lockout and awakens in them a buried rage, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashingly cosmopolitan newcomer from Montreal. By day, Querelle walks the picket lines with his cohort, but at night he breaks bottles on the beach and settles scores with baseball bats and the town's privileged young men flock to his apartment for sex. As positions harden and both sides refuse to yield, sand stalls the gears of the economic machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent. Homage to Jean Genet's antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.
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2024., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: Fic Pep Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series Volume: 47.Summary Note: Lisbon 1961. Aware that the secret police are watching them, four young Angolans discuss their plans for a utopian homeland free from Portuguese rule. When war breaks out, they flee to France and must decide whether they will return home to join the fight. Two remain in exile and two return to Angola to become guerilla fighters, barely escaping capture over the course of the brutal fourteen-year war. Reunited in the capital of Luanda, the old friends face independence with their confidence shaken and struggle to build a new society free of the corruption and violence of colonial rule.
