Mai at the Predators' Ball
Mai au bal des prédateurs
Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939)
Translated by Nigel Spencer
English editions
In EnglishMai at the Predators' Ball
House of Anansi Press · Canada · 9 June 2012 · Paperback · 256 pages
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Every evening at the Saloon, when night falls, a band of young men turn themselves into creatures of dreams. They put on colourful dresses and improbable wigs and go on stage to sing and dance. Every night is carnival, freedom and transgression: they open their arms to the excluded and the rejected and turn every wound into mockery, at once men and women, triumphant and threatened. In a fragmented, many-voiced form, the novel weaves crossing destinies around Yinn, the transsexual star, and Mai, an overprotected girl, drawn into the whirl of the world.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 322 pages in the original
- Set in
- United States
- Series
- Soifs, book 5 · book 2: Dans la foudre et la lumière· book 3: Augustino et le chœur de la destruction· book 4: Naissance de Rebecca à l'ère des tourments
- First published
- 2010 by Boréal
- Author's age
- 71 when first published
- ISBN
9782764620311 (original)
9781770890053 (House of Anansi Press, Canada)
- More
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