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Mai at the Predators' Ball
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Series: Soifs Cycle, Book 5
General FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN13: 9781770890053
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: Jun 9 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: Governor General's Literary Awards
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.
Literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America.
In this swirling fresco, we meet unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works, some new. This time, Blais lets us into the consciousness of fifteen-year-old Mai, an unusually perceptive young woman whose uncensored observations on femininity and youth, freedom and constraint belie her age. And, in the Porte du Baiser Saloon, we meet a group of boys who adorn themselves in colourful dresses and wigs before they take to the stage to sing and dance every evening after darkness falls. They open their arms to those who are excluded -- both men and women, triumphant and threatened, both free and bound.
With this astonishing new novel, Blais gives us a remarkable chronicle of our modern age teeming with characters who seem to represent the whole of humanity. She invites us to share the drama of perfect joy, the tragedy of happiness, and she gives us her best work yet.
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