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Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom

Naissance de Rebecca à l'ère des tourments

Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939)

Translated by Nigel Spencer

English editions

In English

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A sequel to the trilogy of Soifs, Dans la foudre et la lumière and Augustino et le chœur de la destruction, with the same characters, themes and places, written as a single paragraph of long verbal flows in which the voices alternate. The human tragedy as it is lived in the southern United States, with its racial tensions and its wish to escape the curses of history, stands for the hopes and conflicts of people everywhere. Unlike the earlier books, where the world was an arena of good against evil, the struggle now takes place inside each person, and with every birth the fate of the world is at stake again.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
296 pages in the original
Genres
Politics (assigned by AI)
Set in
United States
Series
Soifs, book 4 · book 2: Dans la foudre et la lumière· book 3: Augustino et le chœur de la destruction· book 5: Mai au bal des prédateurs
First published
2008 by Boréal
Author's age
69 when first published
ISBN

9782764605783 (original)

9780887848254 (House of Anansi Press, Canada)

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