by Jocelyne Saucier · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070458752
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«Il pleuvait des oiseaux» is a novel by Jocelyne Saucier, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (224 pages, in French).
Three elderly people live cut off from the world in the forests of northern Ontario. The arrival of a photographer seeking the last survivor of the great fires of the early twentieth century, and of Marie-Desneiges, an old woman who hides stories of loves that could never be, disrupts their isolation. The encounter between them brings into play freedom and the meaning each gives to their life.
The novel was originally published in 2011; this French edition is from 2015. It has been awarded the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie, the Prix Ringuet and the Premi Llibreter for fiction.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in stories about old age, nature and freedom; also for reading groups.
Jocelyne Saucier is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.
