After the Red Night
Après la nuit rouge
Christiane Frenette (born 1954)
Translated by Sheila Fischman
English editions
In EnglishAfter the Red Night
Cormorant Books · Canada · 2009 · 161 pages
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1955. Thomas, who is not a young man like the others and goes out only to walk his dog, was taken away three days after the fire that devastated his Rimouski neighbourhood, to a hospital he left only five years later. Back home he finds his childhood friend Romain, now a doctor, Romain's wife Marie, their children, and his dog, and with the couple he forms a strange unit of ambiguous feelings. 2002. Lou, Marie's daughter, returns to the scenes of her childhood after running away at sixteen and spending thirty years in Chicago with Joe, who loved the world's noise; an accident has now left Joe a prisoner in his own body. Two intertwined stories of families and flight.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 167 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Canada, United States, 1955–2002
- First published
- 2005 by Boréal
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
9782764603642 (original)
9781897151143 (Cormorant Books, Canada)
- More
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