LA PEUPLADE Rights catalogue 2013
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LA PEUPLADE Rights catalogue 2013
RIGHTS CATALOGUE Rights catalogue 2013 LA PEUPLADE LE SOLEIL DU LAC QUI SE COUCHE FLEUR AU FUSIL Marjolaine Deschênes J.R. Léveillé Le soleil du lac qui se couche, J.R. Léveillé’s first novel set in his native Manitoba, describes the unforgettable encounter of Angèle, an aspiring young Métis architect, with Ueno Takami, an older Japanese poet. The story begins when they meet at an art gallery in Winnipeg, a city surprisingly rich both physically, in its architecture, and culturally, with its mix of heritage and customs brought by people who have emigrated there from all over the world. From Winnipeg Angèle and Ueno head north through the wilds to Thompson. Narrated by Angèle, who is remembering her feelings of excitement, surprise and wonder at the discoveries inspired by the Japanese artist, Le soleil du lc qui se couche is as much a love story as a spiritual journey, a celebration of life in all its incompleteness, imperfection, and impermanence. (Source : Signature Editions) • “ Some would say that The Setting Lake Sun is a love story, and some would say that it’s a love affair between two cultures. Some would say that it’s a sexual explo ration, and some that it’s a religious journey into the unknown. The Setting Lake Sun is all those things, and no one who reads it will be able to forget its characters, or their voyage of selfdiscovery into the wilds of northern Manitoba.” Guy Gauthier – Prairie Fire Review of Books “ This quiet, elegantly suspended story generates an aura that is softly enfolding, stirring respect for elusive connections and a gentle engagement with mysteries.” The Globe & Mail Novel October 2013 (for this edition) 2001 (1st edition) 140 pages 978-2-923530-62-8 Born in Winnipeg in 1945, J.R. Léveillé divides his time between the city and Lake Manitoba country. He is now retired from RadioCanada national television, where he was a journalist for many years and for whom he produced over thirty author and artist profiles, Léveillé is also the author of a more than a dozen works of poetry, fiction and essays. His work has been published in Manitoba, Quebec and France. AWARDS Winner — On The Same Page Winner — Prix Champlain Winner — Prix Littéraire Rue-Deschambault Viviane Videloup grew up “in the rubble of Romanticism”, among the beasts that her father stuffed. Writer, she believes that her style “is romantic to give the appearance of the living to the dead and to perpetuate an endless mourning.” Take a vacation - of everything - and not write, this is the starting point of this passage in Belgium where Viviane’s disordered memory intertwines with that of her friends. Louis Leloup is no more, but Laurent Louve awaits her in Brussels. As for Fleure, the childhood friend, she will appear to her on the Grand-Place, beautiful and vivid as a “magno lia standing on top of the harshest winters.” Fleurs au fusil explores the desire of creation, renewal and persistence, combines elegance and cruelty, lyrical and philosophical delusions, violence and beauty. Novel September 2013 176 pages 978-2-923530-61-1 • Marjolaine Deschênes was born in 1975, became a writer, teacher and researcher. After four books of poetry published by Editions d’art Le Sabord, by David and by Noroît, Fleurs au fusil is her first novel. LE FIL DES KILOMÈTRES Christian Guay-Poliquin Le fil des kilomètres tells the story of a mechanic who, after drowning heartbreak at the bottom of several months of work, decides to drop everything to visit his ailing father, at the other end of the continent. But the road is long and a strange power failure has plunged the country into dark ness. Along this straight-line labyrinth, loneliness weighs, thirst torments and memories have raised ambushes. There is only accumulated tiredness to enliven the kilometers. • Christian Guay-Poliquin grew up at the end of Des Érables Road, in St-Armand., Canada He is preparing a thesis and works in the construction industry. The pencil on his ear he used to mark measurements as it does to jot down his ideas. Le fil des kilomètres is his first novel. Novel November 2013 230 pages 978-2-923530-63-2 LA GARÇONNIÈRE ALLERS SIMPLES Mylène Bouchard Frédérick Lavoie The story of this novel involves an unconventional, atmospheric and intellectual relationship between a woman and a man, Mara and Hubert, protago nists of a doomed love. They are best friends, symbolic sister and brother, lovers, each other’s counterpart, immoderate. Hopeless loves bear at the same time an overwhelming love and a tragic fatality. We might need more than one life to un derstand all this. La garçonnière travels from Beirut to Prague and from Noranda to Péribonka; we come across rails, wilderness, ice skating rinks, letters and travels. And some imaginary trains and a bachelor. • “An incredible atmosphere emerge from this book, and that’s what we call grace. The style is magnificent. A must read.” Monique Roy – Châtelaine “Mystery remains in this rich and dense story that ends up grabbing the reader. This doomed love is left unexplained, since unexplainable. Tragic. As we progress in the book, the writer’s pen refines and more moments of grace appear, until the final scene, very close to a magnificent state. It is indeed a writer we promise to follow.” Danielle Laurin – Le Devoir “Mylène Bouchard explores twists and turns of love with lots of fineness and style. She wakes up in all of us this great love story forever etched in our memory.” Julie Laferrière - TV5/Club Social Novel Nov. 2009 (1st ed.) and March 2012 (2nd ed.) 208 pages 978-2-923530-40-6 Mylène Bouchard is born in 1978 in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean and lives there since 2005. She is the co-founder and literary editor of publisher Éditions La Peuplade. Her first novel Ma guerre sera avec toi (La Peuplade) was published in 2006. In addition to her numerous implications in the literary field, she pursues doctoral studies at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. From one single journey to another, Canadian journalist Frédérick Lavoie travels the world, wondering. Curious and insatiable traveler, he brings the reader with him on the road of “PostSovietia”, a geopolitical entity between Europe and Asia which shares history along with the same uncertain future. Among revolutionary hopes of young Belarusians in a Minsk jail, hate speeches from neo-nazis in Vladivostok, the tragedy of a poor Uzbek babushka living under dictatorship in Turkmenistan and great dreams cherished by a Chechen village chief, Lavoie tells the tale of some former Soviets he met along the way, while on a reporting assignment across the fallen empire. Allers simples captures realities of life usually out of our reach. • “A most fascinating book.” Michel Desautels – Radio-Canada “Frédérick Lavoie is a keen observer, as well as an outstanding storyteller.” Daniel Dubrûle – La Presse “It’s the kind of journalism we need.” Catherine Perrin – Radio-Canada “A book that reads like a tale of incredible adventures.” Travel literature / Journalism August 2012 384 pages 978-2-923530-46-8 Frédérick Lavoie is a freelance journalist born in 1983, in Chicoutimi, Québec. He was living in Moscow from 2008 to 2012, but he now lives and works in Mumbai. He is a regular collaborator of La Presse, Radio-Canada and works with French, Belgian and Swiss media. Allers simples is his first book. Claude Bernatchez – Radio-Canada “This sensitive, skilled and human collection of stories takes the reader all over the places on the other side of the world. And the experience is exquisite...” Dominique Lemieux – Le Libraire “With restraint and taking all the way a great witness role more than a tourist role, Lavoie gives a second life to his notebooks and previous news stories in Allers simples for us to see and understand.” Christian Desmeules – Le Devoir AWARDS Double winner — Prix Littéraires du Salon du livre du Saguenay—Lac-St-Jean ROSE BROUILLARD, LE FILM POINT D’ÉQUILIBRE Jean-François Caron Mélissa Verreault A young film-maker, the daughter Haitian immigrants, has been hired to make a documentary film about the village of SainteMarée de l’Incantation. It is intended to stir the interest of potential tourists to the village. Believing we can keep balance is a delusion. We are always searching for it without really ever reaching it. When we achieve it, it doesn’t last. “Dying is easy” compared to this. Interlocked like Russian dolls, the eleven fictions of Point d’équilibre put the emphasis on destabi lizing everyday realities and protagonists that are about to lose ground. We go deep into the boxes, from the biggest to the smallest one, where we meet those humans hanging between Montreal and Quebec, Afghanistan and Italy: a ballerina injured, a confused immigrant, a child betrayed, a soldier with trauma and a clothesline installer who thinks he is a tightrope walker. In a direct style, Mélissa Verreault tells us their stories marked by jealousy, anxiety, embarrassment, anger, nervous shock, surprises, simple beauties, passions and returns to the land. • “In this collection of short stories, some of which inspired by her own life, the writer enjoys putting her characters in destabilizing situations. The result are deep and compelling stories.” Lisanne Rheault-Leblanc – 7 jours “With Point d’équilibre, an highly mastered collection of short stories, Mélissa Verreault proves she can easily slip into the skin of a little boy or of an immigrant, each time pointing out what turn their world upside down, with empathy and intelligence.” Josée Lapointe – La Presse “Verreault has a precise writing that compels admiration without ever rushing the reader, leading him into the private universe of the characters. In less than 200 pages, she explores many subjects and themes with an enviable talent; therefore her collection is a vast and complete picture of society.” Gabriel Gaudette-Tremblay – Salon Double This is a novel about memory, the recovery of a lost past that can only be restored through language. It is also about truth, lies, and fiction — at the end the author himself even gets a mention. Short stories / Fiction October 2012 176 pages 978-2-923530-48-2 Mélissa Verreault is the full-time mother of triplet and writer when she has a few hours off. Her first novel, Voyage Léger, was a great success. She holds a master in creative writing from UQAM and now lives somewhere between Lévis and Italy. The writing of Rose Brouillard, le film is poetic in the best sense, in the rhythm of the prose and in the very beautiful and evocative descriptions of the Saint Lawrence landscape as well as of the characters and their intimate experiences. The different narrative voices are finely delineated, and their variety, as well as the multiple perspectives, add greatly to the interest of the story. • “With Rose Brouillard, le film, Jean-François Caron has given us one of the most accomplished novels of the season… The writing is certainly poetic, but it is also funny and surprising, precise and fluid, brilliant and arresting.” Josée Lapointe – La Presse Novel March 2012 244 pages 978-2-923530-42-0 Jean-François Caron is the author of a very well-received first novel, Nos Échoueries (La Peuplade, 2010) and of two volumes of poetry, Des champs de mandragores (La Peuplade, 2006) and Vershurlements et barreaux de lit, (Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2010). “Sheer joy to read.” Monique Roy – Châtelaine “It is magnificent. Here is a book borne by a very special imagination and use of language, full of nuance. It is bathed in light and gentle warmth. It is tender and affecting. And powerful.” Danielle Laurin – Le Devoir “Jean-François Caron juxtaposes various voices, concerns, and epochs in a second novel imbued with great narrative power.” Éric Paquin – Voir AWARDS Winner — Prix Jovette-Bernier RIGHTS SOLD World English WIGRUM QUAI 31 Daniel Canty Marisol Drouin It’s October 1944. During a brief respite from the aerial bombardment of London, Sebastian Wigrum absconds from his small flat and disappears into the fog for a walk in the Unreal City. This is our first and only encounter with the enigmatic man we come to discover decades later through more than one hundred everyday objects he has left behind. Wigrum’s bequest is a meticulously catalogued collection of the profoundly ordinary: a camera, some loose teeth, candies and keys, soap, bits of string, hazelnuts, and a handkerchief. Moving through the inventory artifact to artifact, story to story, we become immersed in a dreamlike narrative bricolage determined as much by the objects’ museological presentation as by the tender and idiosyncratic mania of Wigrum’s impulse to collect them. With its traces of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Georges Perec, Daniel Canty’s graphically arresting Wigrum explores the limits of the postmodern novel. Having absorbed the logic of lists and the principles of classification systems, the Wigrumian narrative teeters on the boundary between fact and fiction, on the uncertain edge of the real and the unreal. Readers venturing into Sebastian Wigrum’s cabinet of curiosities must abide only the following maxim: If I can believe all the stories I am told, so can you. • “This is a new novel genre. An inventory! … The inventory is a list of more or less fantastic objects – sometimes computer-based, electronic, historical, or purely useless – but each finds its place in this collection for one reason or another. In the last part of the book, Daniel Canty mixes fact and fiction, deconstructing our vain attempts to discover the truth. Unique and very exciting!” Shannon Desbiens – Les Bouquinistes Fiction October 2011 208 pages 978-2-923530-33-8 Daniel Canty is a Montrealbased writer and film director who works in literature, film, theatre and design, and new media. Canty collaborated with the pioneering multimedia studio DNA Media, in Vancouver, and directed the inaugural issues of Horizon Zero, the Banff New Media Institute’s web space on the digital arts in Canada. AWARDS Grafika Grand Prize Winner (Typography), 2012 RIGHTS SOLD World English Forced to leave their island submerged with water, hundreds of refugees climb aboard a cargo ship that’ll take them across the ocean, to the Dock 31. Échine and his mother are among the refugees. Taken care of by the authorities, they are cramed into a neighborhood near the port. Échine then starts a new life with no point of reference. He will meet an ambitious young man who will take care of him and a two-faced woman. Immune to a virus that twists spines, he will be both actor and witness of the end of the world announced a thousand times, and lived a thousand times. This pure fiction is a book you can’t put down. • “Flipping through Quai 31, you enter more deeply into a universe that does not exist, but that we know it is not too far from us. Even if some sentences let us see the humanity in the characters, this book leaves the reader disturbed by the gloomy prospects it contains.” Josée Lapointe – La Presse “It is a good novel. I was struck by her writing: clear, concise, effective, where images arise. The story is dark, supported by a brilliant style. It is a novel with ambiance, very poetic, very beautiful.” Annie Landreville – Radio-Canada/Info-réveil “Quai 31 is a post-apocalyptic novel. It is very dark, but all the while a very good book. Two hours of sheer joy.” Éric Blackburn – Radio-Canada/La Librairie Francophone Novel March 2011 128 pages 978-2-923530-29-1 Marisol Drouin is a young author born in Charlevoix in 1976 and now living in Montreal. Quai 31 is her first novel. She also sings and write for Macha fjord, a musical project shared with musician Olaf Gundel. BÉANTE Marie-Andrée Gill Béante allows us to see in the night. Midnight is time for medita tion and it is full moon. In some offhand manner – “imagine the end” – this poetic text immerses the reader deep into the recollec tion of humanity and of the tangible reality of life. In touch with tides and stars, mirages and ancestors, the human being, ilnu, here represented, travels from the outside to the inside. Between moments of confusion and lucidity, there is a will to resolve the maybes, to manage the declines, to find a light. In Béante, times are overlaping. Until the end of the night. • “In Béante, her first collection published by La Peuplade, Marie-Andrée Gill invites the reader in a world where there is a quivering transition between the frailty of human and the expression of a suffocating world. The poet escapes and roams the crevices of her desire to go through the bitter end of the deconstructions where is hanging anything that you otherwise want, as well as to transplant rabbit’s feet on black cats. Born in Mashteuiatsh, Marie-Andrée Gill successfully gives her writing a deep intimacy with an identity aspect, not scared of the words reminding issues of reality. ” Christian Girard – Le libraire DISTRIBUTION Poetry September 2012 92 pages 978-2-923530-47-5 AWARDS Winner - Prix littéraires du Salon du livre du Saguenay— Lac-St-Jean Finalist - Governor general literary award RIGHTS SOLD World English CE QUI EST LÀ DERRIÈRE Geneviève Gravel-Renaud Ce qui est là derrière are words of departure. The loved one is gone, and he leaves behind a woman recalling her scars, putting them back in context every time she gazes at an item in the house. The apartment, the books, the piano, the purple chair, the dishes, the rocks, the bookmarks all come along with us in this long trip. Doors open and close while the woman knits and asks herself if it is not just a figment of her own imagination. The space around her withstands, overrunned by absence. Dust falls down and builds up, but the slightest thing brings back memories. Luckily, there are other presences: portraits, Marie-H. and her baby. Luckily, other stories can happen. A crucial text to learn how to leave and how to clean dust away from hearts. • “Without doubt, Geneviève Gravel-Renaud is already an author to follow, since the language in this first collection has the appropriate tone, shiver ing on styles, memories and material pregnancy. ” Hugues Corriveau – Le Devoir In Canada Diffusion Dimedia In France Librairie du Québec à Paris (DNM) In Belgium Espace Livres & Création CONTACT 201-415, rue Racine Est, Chicoutimi (Québec), G7H 1S8 418.602.0522 www.lapeuplade.com Publisher Simon Philippe Turcot [email protected] Editorial director Mylène Bouchard [email protected] Poetry in prose February 2012 92 pages 978-2-923530-40-6 Born in Montreal in 1984, Geneviève Gravel-Renaud graduated from UQAM with a master degree of literature. Ce qui est là derrière is her first book. Managing editor Sophie Gagnon-Bergeron [email protected] LA PEUPLADE Established in Canada, La Peuplade publishes innovative French fiction, poetry and selective non-fiction since 2006. Without limits, the publishing house moves, evolves, engages in dialogue, helps build its time, formulates ideas, speaks.