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Product details
- ISBN 9781552454169
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 05 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Coach House Books
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature?
A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species – humans included – are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her.
Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous and terrifying in its likeness to our own.
Fauna, Christiane Vadnais’s first work of fiction, won the Horizons Imaginaires speculative fiction award, the City of Quebec book award, and was named one of 2018’s best books by Radio-Canada.
Christiane Vadnais holds an MFA in creative writing, and has long been active as an events programmer and project manager in Quebec’s literary community. Radio-Canada named her a ‘Young Author to Watch’ for 2020. Fauna is her first work of fiction. She lives in Quebec City.
Pablo Strauss’s previous translations for Coach House Books are The Country Will Bring Us No Peace, The Supreme Orchestra, and Baloney. He is a two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for translation, for Synapses (2019) and The Longest Year (2017). Pablo grew up in Victoria, B.C., and has lived in Quebec City for fifteen years.
