Atonement
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1999
- Category
- Literary, Psychological
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770890688
- Publish Date
- Jan 1999
- List Price
- $10.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887847806
- Publish Date
- Aug 2007
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
Atonement is Sheila Fischman's translation of Gaetan Soucy's brilliant novel, originally published in French as L'Acquittement.
Twenty years after leaving the tiny village of Saint Aldor, Louis Bapaume has come home to make amends. During that one blustery winter solstice day, between the railway station and the church where a funeral mass is underway, he meets old villagers, forgotten neighbours, and characters who are either imagined or real. But there's only one person he seeks: the von Croft twin he taught to read music and to whom he wants to atone.
Soucy creates a world where nothing is left to chance and the line between dream and reality is always shifting.
About the authors
Gaetan Soucy has written four novels to acclaim in Canada and abroad, including The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, Atonement, Vaudeville, and The Immaculate Conception, which was a finalist for the 2006 Scotiabank Griller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. Soucy teaches philosophy and lives in Montreal.
