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The Hollow Beast

English

By (author): Christophe Bernard

Translated by: Lazer Lederhendler

Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation  Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring Title

Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge.

1911. A hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. With the score tied two-two in overtime, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck directly into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Pictou's momentum carries them both across the goal line in a spray of shattered teeth, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal countsand Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls across three generations, one hundred years, and dozens of dastardly deeds. Fuelled by a bottomless supply of Yukon, the high-proof hooch that may or may not cause the hallucinatory sightings of a technicolor beast that haunts not just Monti but his descendants, it's up to Monti's grandson Françoisand his floundering doctoral dissertationto make sense of the vendetta that's shaped the destiny of their town and everyone in it. Brilliantly translated into slapstick English by Lazer Lederhendler, The Hollow Beast introduces Christophe Bernard as a master of epic comedy.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 133 x 209mm
  • Publication Date: 16 May 2024
  • Publisher: Biblioasis
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781771965552

About Christophe Bernard

Originally from Carleton-sur-Mer in the Gaspé region of Quebec Christophe Bernard studied literature in Quebec City Aix-en-Provence and Berlin. A prolific literary translator Bernard was a finalist for the 2016 Governor Generals Literary Award for English-to-French Translation. The Hollow Beast a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in French won the Quebec-Ontario Prize the Quebec Booksellers' Prize and the Jovette-Bernier Prize. Christophe Bernard lives in Burlington Vermont. Lazer Lederhendler is a full-time literary translator specializing in Québécois fiction and non-fiction. His translations have earned awards and distinctions in Canada the UK and the US. He has translated the works of noted authors including Gaétan Soucy Nicolas Dickner Edem Awumey Perrine Leblanc and Catherine Leroux. He lives in Montreal with the visual artist Pierrette Bouchard.

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