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"This haunting work may be the best piece of theater this
country has produced this millennium."--"The Globe and Mail"
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Anima (Paperback)
Wajdi Mouawad; Translated by Linda Gaboriau
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R418
R382
Discovery Miles 3 820
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A novel of grotesque realism following Rabelais.Unique narration
seen through the eyes (and told in the voices) of some 70 animals,
birds, and insects who observe the protagonist as he travels the
continent.The novel reads like a road movie, a thriller, as the
protagonist, Waahch Debch, travels from Montreal across the U.S.
border (stopping at Indian reservations in Quebec and Ontario along
the way), through the Mid-West to New Mexico. He is on the trail of
his wife's murderer, a Mohawk named Welson Wolf Rooney. The murder
was violent beyond words. The violence of her death (and that of
another woman murdered by the same man on the Kahnawake
reservation) triggers a fault line in Waahch's memory and the
ensuing events force him to pursue "the excavation of his memory."
This excavation leads to a tale of almost biblical vengeance rooted
in historical "tribal" traditions of honor. (Reminiscent of Joseph
Boyden's The Orenda but set in a very different time and place.)
The protagonist Wahhch grew up in Lebanon during the civil war of
the 1980s, where a brutal childhood episode forever changed his
life.Topicality: the painful legacy of the politics of the Middle
East and the "Palestinian question."
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Kisses Deep (Paperback)
Michel Marc Bouchard; Translated by Linda Gaboriau
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R335
Discovery Miles 3 350
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The Driving Force (Paperback)
Michel Tremblay; Translated by Linda Gaboriau
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R350
R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
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In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer's
ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while
hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant father with a series
of monologues to settle old scores and misunderstandings between
them.In an astonishing and eerie reversal of roles, in Act 2 it is
Alex who visits his son Claude in the same Alzheimer's ward and it
is Alex's turn to rant and rail at what he perceives to be his mute
son's contempt for his own working class life.With a cruel and
disconsolate irony, we come to see that his father's lifelong
attempt to mock and censure Claude's work as consisting of nothing
but mediocre, misrepresentative lies, has been the very driving
force behind Claude's compulsion to continue to reveal the  truth"
of human relationships as he so desperately wants his father to
understand it.
When Pierre and Simone planned a vacation to the Irish coast, they
were hoping to revive their failing marriage. What they weren't
expecting was to stumble upon the body of Mary, a drowned woman,
during a walk along the beach. As the couple begin to piece
together Mary's history, her presence integrates itself into their
lives.
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