by Nancy Huston · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742704903
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«Cantique des plaines» is the novel by Nancy Huston published by Actes Sud in paperback (317 pages, in French).
The narrator Paula addresses her grandfather Paddon, recently deceased, to evoke the story of the Sterlings, four generations of immigrants on the Alberta plains. Her childhood, her marriage and her encounter with Miranda, an Indigenous woman who shows her another side of the world, make up a narrative about memory and identity.
The work, originally published in 1993, won the Governor General's Award for Canada in the fiction and narrative category. This edition belongs to the Babel collection (no. 142) and dates from 1995.
For readers of literary fiction interested in Canadian fiction, family portraits and stories about memory and identity.
Nancy Louise Huston is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
