The End of the World Is Elsewhere (Essential Translations Series): Volume 56 - Softcover

Hélène Rioux

 
9781771837613: The End of the World Is Elsewhere (Essential Translations Series): Volume 56

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Hélène Rioux is the translator of 15 novels by Lucy Maude Montgomery, as well as works by Bernice Morgan and Yann Martel. She lives in Montreal, Quebec. Jonathan Kaplansky studied at Tufts University and received his MA in French Language and Literature from McGill and MA in Translation at the University of Ottawa. He has translated works by Hélène Rioux, Hélène Dorion and Annie Ernaux. Originally from New Brunswick, he currently lives in Montreal.

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