- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: Cormorant Books; 1st Edition edition (Aug 20 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1896951759
- ISBN-13: 978-1896951751
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #883,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation
Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award
The Alien House is the story of a medieval scholar, Élisabeth, who is forced out of her cloistered intellectual life by the loss of her lover of six years and her father’s imminent departure to renew acquaintance with a woman he loved long ago.
Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award
The Alien House is the story of a medieval scholar, Élisabeth, who is forced out of her cloistered intellectual life by the loss of her lover of six years and her father’s imminent departure to renew acquaintance with a woman he loved long ago.
About the Author
Sheila Fischman is one of Canada’s premier translators. She has translated over 125 books and for her work was awarded the Molson Prize in 2008. In 2007, her translation of Jacques Poulin’s novel My Sister’s Blue Eyes was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, and in 2006, her translation of Pascale Quiviger’s novel The Perfect Circle was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Élise Turcotte is a novelist and award-winning poet who has received the Prix Emile Nelligan for La terre est ici in 1989 and for La voix de Carla in 1987. In 1992, she won the Prix Louis-Hémon for Le bruit des choses vivantes. Her novel The Alien House was shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. Élise lives in Montreal, where she has taught at the CEGEP de Vieux-Montréal since 1986.
Élise Turcotte is a novelist and award-winning poet who has received the Prix Emile Nelligan for La terre est ici in 1989 and for La voix de Carla in 1987. In 1992, she won the Prix Louis-Hémon for Le bruit des choses vivantes. Her novel The Alien House was shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. Élise lives in Montreal, where she has taught at the CEGEP de Vieux-Montréal since 1986.
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