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Author: Martine Desjardins ,
Fred A. Reed ,
David Homel
Publisher: Talonbooks
Imprint: Talonbooks
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.226kg
ISBN: 9780889226807
ISBN 10: 0889226806
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 12 July 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Magnificent blasphemy; a whiff of scandal.""--Pascale Millot, Montreal centre-ville ""The world that Martine Desjardins presents with such admirable skill in Maleficium is inhabited by fear and desire, and its reality has unsuspected depths. With its surprises, exotic voyages, and shimmering descriptions, this book is a pure pleasure to read.""--Canada Council for the Arts
Magnificent blasphemy; a whiff of scandal. --Pascale Millot, Montreal centre-ville The world that Martine Desjardins presents with such admirable skill in Maleficium is inhabited by fear and desire, and its reality has unsuspected depths. With its surprises, exotic voyages, and shimmering descriptions, this book is a pure pleasure to read. --Canada Council for the Arts
<p> Magnificent blasphemy; a whiff of scandal. --Pascale Millot, Montreal centre-ville <p> The world that Martine Desjardins presents with such admirable skill in Maleficium is inhabited by fear and desire, and its reality has unsuspected depths. With its surprises, exotic voyages, and shimmering descriptions, this book is a pure pleasure to read. --Canada Council for the Arts
Author Information
Martine Desjardins Born in the Town of Mount Royal in Quebec, Martine Desjardins worked as an assistant editor-in-chief at ELLE Quebec magazine for four years before leaving to devote herself to writing. Presently she works as a free-lance rewriter, translator and journalist for L'actualite, an award-winning French-language current affairs magazine in Canada. Her first novel, Le cercle de Clara was published by Lemeac in 1997, and was nominated for both the Prix litteraires du Quebec and the Grand prix des lectrices Elle Quebec in 1998. It has been published by Talonbooks in English as Fairy Ring. Fred A. Reed International journalist and award-winning literary translator Fred A. Reed is also a respected specialist on politics and religion in the Middle East. After several years as a librarian and trade union activist at the Montreal Gazette, Reed began reporting from Islamic Iran in 1984, visiting the Islamic Republic thirty times since then. He has also reported extensively on Middle Eastern affairs for La Presse, CBC Radio-Canada and Le Devoir. Reed is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Award for translation. David Homel Award-winning author and literary translator David Homel also works as a journalist, editor and screenwriter. He was born in Chicago in 1952 but left at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and continued his education in Europe and Toronto before settling in Montreal in around 1980. He worked at a variety of industrial jobs before beginning to write fiction in the mid-1980s. His six novels to date have been translated into several languages and published around the world.
