Console-moi

Spring 1944: Lazare Lefort, a fisherman from the village of Chéticamp in Nova Scotia and an inconsolable widower, runs away in the night with his young son Gabriel asleep in his arms. In Pointe-aux-Trembles they begin a narrow life peopled only by ghosts of the past. Summer 1963: Gabriel makes the journey in reverse, back to the lost country of water and mountains, where an encounter draws him into a drift whose scale he will understand only much later. He is not the only victim of the theft of a soul planned by Emmeline and Xavier; around them are a writer, a glass cutter, twin sisters and women living alone.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

318 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Canada, 1944–1963

First published

2003 by Boréal

ISBN

9782764602270 (original)