Mile End by Lise Tremblay
The narrator of this Governor General's Award-winning novel does not have a name. She is simply a grotesque "fat woman," getting larger every day--a clown, a monster, in her own words, with no self, no identity save her enormous mound of flesh, its blubber, its perceived deformity. She is used by men who find her a convenience--for their careers, for a sympathetic ear, for someone to screw. No one thinks she understands anything. She feels displaced. Everyone, they keep telling her, is from "another world," which they are sure she can never penetrate or understand. Not that they really want her to. Her father precariously hosts a popular TV show, in which middle-class people confess the error of their ways, and return perpetually to the safety of the middle road. His family is an embarrassment to him, his daughter a disappointment.Yet within this spreading body crouches the still point of a sharply observant intelligence, a vision unclouded by fantasy or illusions, least of all about herself. Her resignation to her indifferent suburban upbringing, the callousness of her grandparents, her accomplished but talentless musicianship, but most of all to the accusatory criticisms of her pathetically self-involved father, is a tightly-wound emotional spring, set to lash out terribly on a world of blind, and therefore tormenting indifference.
Mile End [La danse juive, Leméac, 1999] is a chilling and masterful look at the interior landscapes of psychosis which mirror so perfectly the emptiness of the exterior surfaces they reflect.
Lise Tremblay was born in Chicoutimi. In 1991, her novel, L'Hiver de pluie, won the Prix de la dü¾Ž–”¼couverte littü¾Ž–”¼raire de l'annü¾Ž–”¼e awarded by the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Salon du Livre, as well as the Canada Council for the Arts-Stuffer Prize. In 1999, her novel, La Danse juive won the Governor General's Award for fiction. La Hü¾Ž–”¼ronniü¾Ž†”¼re, her collection of short stories, was awarded the 2003 Grand Prix du livre de Montrü¾Ž–”¼al. Ms. Tremblay lives in Montreal where she teaches literature at Cegep Vieux-Montrü¾Ž–”¼al. Linda Gaboriau is an award-winning literary translator based in Montreal. Her translations of plays by Quebec's most prominent playwrights have been published and produced across Canada and abroad. In her work as a literary manager and dramaturge, she has directed numerous translation residencies and international exchange projects. She was the founding director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. Most recently she won the 2010 Governor General's Award for Forests, her translation of the play by Wajdi Mouawad.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780889224674 |
| ISBN 10 | 0889224676 |
| Titel | Mile End |
| Autor | Lise Tremblay |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Talonbooks |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2002-06-13 |
| Seitenanzahl | 144 |
| Preise | Winner of Governor General's French Fiction Award 1999 (Canada) |
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