The Longest Year
L’année la plus longue
Daniel Grenier (born 1980)
Translated by Pablo Strauss
English editions
In EnglishThe Longest Year
House of Anansi Press · Canada · 25 March 2017 · Paperback · 384 pages
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One day Albert Langlois explains to his son Thomas why he is not like the others. To preserve the fragile balance of the world, so that the turning of the planets and the atomic ticking of Swiss clocks agree, Thomas cannot exist every year: somewhere in a secret room of the Royal Society or under the Rome of the popes, his fate was decided centuries ago. Then Albert vanishes, going back north with his secret and the notebooks that hold all his research, and Thomas starts growing like everyone else, surrounded by the Appalachians and the hot streets of Chattanooga, Tennessee. An American epic across three centuries, of deported tribes and civil wars, of lives too short and lives without end.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 422 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Speculative, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, Canada
- First published
- 2015 by Le Quartanier
- Author's age
- 35 when first published
- ISBN
9782896982158 (original)
9781487001537 (House of Anansi Press, Canada)