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Fiction Literary

Passages

by (author) Émile Ollivier

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 2003
Category
Literary, Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894800150
    Publish Date
    Jan 2003
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Passages is the tale of a mythic journey from one world to another. It is a story of hope and shipwreck, of a group of people from a tiny village on a Carribean island who find themselves adrift when they must leave the home they know to set out for the home they dream only about.

About the author

Born in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) in 1940, Émile Ollivier is the author of two previous novels, Mére-Solitude (Prix Jacques Roumain 1985) and La discorde aux cent voix (Prix du Journal de Montréal 1987) and two collections of stories, Paysage de l’aveugle and Regarde, regarde les lions. He has lived in Montreal, Quebec for over twenty-five years where he taught at the University of Montreal, Professor Emeritus. He holds degrees in comparative literature from Oxford and Harvard.

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