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Book*hug
13 September 2022
Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation

Winner of the 2022 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award

Remnants is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a father's life and sudden death. Employing various voices and hybrid forms-including dialogues, questionnaires, photographs, and dream documentation-Huyghebaert builds a fragmented picture of a father-daughter relationship that has been shaped by silences and missed opportunities.

The reader attempts to untangle fact from fiction: multiple versions of Huyghebaert's father are presented while remnants of his life disappear achingly quickly. What is left of someone who was not important enough to be archived? How do we talk about what no longer exists?

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for French-language fiction, Remnants asks essential questions we often only peer at from the corner of an eye; questions about the value of life in its duration and passing. This is a transcendent work, ideal for readers of Annie Ernaux, Sophie Calle, and Maggie Nelson.
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Translated by:  
Imprint:   Book*hug
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   303g
ISBN:   9781771667500
ISBN 10:   1771667508
Pages:   336
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

CLINE HUYGHEBAERTis an artist and a writer. Her work, at the intersection of visual arts, language and literature, has been exhibited in France and Canada. In 2019, she won the Governor General's Literary Award for French-language Fiction for her first novel,Le drap blanc, published by Le Quartanier, and she was awarded the Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. Born in France in 1978, she has been living in Montral since 2002. ALESHIA JENSEN is a French-to-English literary translator and former bookseller living in Tio'tia:ke/Montral. Her translations include Explosions by Mathieu Poulin, a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation; Prague by Maude Veilleux, co-translated with Aimee Wall; as well as numerous graphic novels, including work by Julie Delporte, Catherine Ocelot, Mirion Malle, and Pascal Girard.

Reviews for Remnants

Praise for Remnants : "" Le drap blanc is a mausoleum... built from fragments and miscellaneous moments. Words and actions that could have been different, smells, dreams and daydreams; retellings and family dialogues recounted as though in shadow playshe has collected it all here... Céline Huyghebaert brings us a book that leaves a striking, lasting impression."" Xavier Houssin, Le Monde des Livres ( Le Monde , France)


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