The Alien House
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2004
- Category
- Literary
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781896951751
- Publish Date
- Aug 2004
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
Shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation
Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award
The Alien House is the story of a medieval scholar, Élisabeth, who is forced out of her cloistered intellectual life by the loss of her lover of six years and her father’s imminent departure to renew acquaintance with a woman he loved long ago.
About the authors
Élise Turcotte is a novelist and award-winning poet who has received the Prix Emile Nelligan for La terre est ici in 1989 and for La voix de Carla in 1987. In 1992, she won the Prix Louis-Hémon for Le bruit des choses vivantes. Her novel The Alien House was shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. Élise lives in Montreal, where she has taught at the CEGEP de Vieux-Montréal since 1986.
