A Ramshackle Home
- Publisher
- Linda Leith Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2023
- Category
- Own Voices, Contemporary Women, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781773901435
- Publish Date
- Sep 2023
- List Price
- $22.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773901442
- Publish Date
- Sep 2023
- List Price
- $11.95
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Description
After her marriage breaks up, a woman returns with her young son to the ramshackle house in the countryside where her parents once lived. Her story unfolds against the backdrop of a country laid waste by a half century of Communist rule. She grapples with the desolation of her physical surroundings and seeks solace in the world of her imagination, where her memories are interwoven with tales from ancient mythology.
About the authors
Felicia Mihali is a journalist, novelist and publisher who lives in Montréal. After studies in French, Mandarin and Dutch, she specialized in Postcolonial literature at the University of Montreal, where she also studied History and English Literature. Her career was launched in 2002 with the novel Le Pays du fromage, highly praised by the media, shortly followed by six others books in French. In 2012, she published her first book in English, The Darling of Kandahar, inspired by a news item reported in Maclean’s magazine. Today, she writes in French and in English. She is the founder and president of Éditions Hashtag 2018 from Montréal.
Judith Weisz Woodsworth is a translator and former professor of translation studies at Concordia University. She is the recipient of the 2022 Governor General’s literary award for her translation of History of the Jews in Quebec by Pierre Anctil. Her translations include novels by Pierre Nepveu and Abla Farhoud (Hutchison Street, LLP 2018), and she has published widely on translation history and theory. She lives in Montreal.