The Longest Year

Daniel Grenier, Pablo Strauss

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House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
13 November 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fantasy; Sagas

F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" meets Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in Daniel Grenier's epic novel, which tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.

There's something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.

Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. But beyond the fact that he lives between two cultures and languages, there's something else about Thomas that sets him apart: he was born on February 29.

Before Albert goes on a strange quest to find out more about their mysterious relative, Aim Bolduc, he explains to Thomas that he will only age one year out of every four and he will outlive all of his loved ones.

Thomas's loneliness grows and the years pass until a terrible accident involving a young girl sets in motion a series of events that link the young girl and Thomas to Aim Bolduc - a Civil Warera soldier and perhaps their contemporary.

Spanning three centuries and set against the backdrop of the Appalachians from Quebec to Tennessee, The Longest Year is a magical and poignant story about family history, fateful dates, fragile destinies, and lives brutally ended and mysteriously extended.

By: Daniel Grenier
Translated by: Pablo Strauss
Imprint: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 421g
ISBN: 9781487001537
ISBN 10: 1487001533
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 13 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

DANIEL GRENIER was born in Brossard, Quebec, in 1980. His debut short story collection, Malgré tout on rit à Saint-Henri was published in 2012, and his first novel, L’anée la plus longue (The Longest Year), won the Prix littéraire des collégiens and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Fiction, the Prix des libraires, and the Prix littéraire France-Québec. Grenier has also translated numerous English-language works into French. He lives in Quebec City. PABLO STRAUSS grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, and has lived in Quebec City for a decade. His translation of Daniel Grenier’s The Longest Year was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation.

Reviews for The Longest Year

A solid work . . . magical. * La Presse * Ambitious. An epic with dense, controlled writing. Large in scope yet intimate . . . A tour de force that takes us across centuries, past frontiers . . . and doesn’t hesitate to flirt with fantasy. * Le Devoir * Historical fiction at its finest ... full of wit, whimsy, and a wellspring of historical detail * Montreal Review of Books * Last year, Catherine Leroux’s The Party Wall arrived like a revelation: a French-Canadian novel with a continent-sized imagination, about connections between people over borders and across time. . . . [I]n The Longest Year Grenier engages a similar continental imaginary. The novel’s magic realist conceit — that a person born on Feb. 29 might age one year for every four — allows an epic swath of history with sweeping geography to match. * The Globe and Mail * [M]agical . . . spectacular . . . Grenier’s magnum opus . . . The Longest Year is the kind of book you want to tell people about. [Strauss] has masterfully translated L’année la plus longue, Grenier’s genre-volt-face, into The Longest Year — a year so good I wouldn’t mind living it a few times over myself, this novel’s plot begging for another crack. * The National Post *