For Sure

Among other things an encyclopedic summa, a labyrinth, an exploration of the madness of numbers, a treatise on typography, a defence of the Chiac language and a reflection on minority cultures and their obsession with language. It is also the story of Terry and Carmen, known from the author's earlier novels, their children Étienne and Marianne, and the whole crowd that gravitates around the bar Le Babar in Moncton, the Zablonskis, Zed and Pomme, artists and ordinary people who, while going about their daily lives, keep asking about their place in the world, geographically, historically, politically and culturally. The novel is a series of fragments arranged according to a strict mathematical structure.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

746 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Canada

First published

2011 by Boréal

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9782764621240 (original)

9781770892040 (House of Anansi Press, Canada)