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Sleepless Nights and Days of Glory
Hélène Rioux and Jonathan Kaplansky (Translator)
Guernica Editions, Fall 2019
240 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9781771834674
ISBN10: 1771834676
English
Translated from the French
$20.00 Canada, $20.00 US
Tragedy at Montreal's End of the World restaurant. A little marriage fatigue, a cottage to sell and a woman in cashmere: suddenly twenty seven years of conjugal life are swept away. Jean-Charles has left his wife. And with her goes the charm the restaurant possessed, where simple food was served to simple people. Sleepless Nights and Days of Glory, the third volume in Hélène Rioux's Fragments of the World series, opens with the theme of abandonment and betrayal, and then
takes the reader around the world.
The End of the World is the restaurant on St. Zotique Street in Montreal, where the fascinating adventure of the Fragments of the World began. Hélène Rioux has added a third part: summer solstice. On this longest day of the year, we follow the trajectory of characters encountered in Wednesday Night at the End of the World and Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost. Passing through these same places – Montreal, Bulgaria, Mexico City, Spain – they will be guided through the spectrum of life by a writer in stunning form.
Monique Roy, Châtelaine
A breathless race with pauses exactly when you need to catch your breath. But we’re anxious to discover what awaits just around the corner – dénouements, amusing situations, overlapping stories, and unexpected recurrences leading to other avenues. Eyes, ears, and taste: all the senses are awakened in this feast of this novel, as in the previous ones. A must-read.
Hans Jürgen Grief, Entre les lignes
Nuits blanches et jours de gloire reminds us that the novelist is a fine observer of history, the current state of the world, and the human condition in all its complexity.
Suzanne Giguère, Le Devoir
Books by Hélène Rioux
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