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by Alistair MacLeod · OLIVIER · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782879292687
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«Chien d'hiver» is the short story collection by Alistair MacLeod, published by Éditions de l'Olivier in paperback (389 pages, in French).
The stories portray miners, fishermen and families of Scottish descent in Cape Breton (Nova Scotia), torn between the America that saw them born and the heritage of their ancestors. A singular dog, a miner and his grandson, a son who chooses the family trade: stories about memory, identity and the price of growing up without betraying one's roots.
The volume brings together a selection of stories written between 1968 and 1999, translated from English (Canada) into French by Françoise Du Sorbier and Paule Guivarch.
For readers of literary fiction and short narrative, especially those seeking stories about exile and cultural identity.
Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and the present. MacLeod has been praised for his verbal precision, his lyric intensity and his use of simple, direct language that seems rooted in an oral tradition.
