The Immaculate Conception

by Gaetan Soucy, Lazer Lederhendler (Translator)

Overview

East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit's foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell.

Originally published in 1994 as L'Immaculee conception, this is the novel that established Gaetan Soucy as a powerful new literary force in Quebec. In it, he echoes the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Immaculate Conception was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2006.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887847837
Publisher:	House of Anansi Press
Publication date:	08/01/2007
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Gaetan Soucy has written four novels to acclaim in Canada and abroad. He teaches philosophy and lives in Montreal.

Lazer Lederhendler is a Governor General's Award-winning translator. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Editorial Reviews

It takes a short time to read and a long time to forget. It has the power of a Grimm fairy tale...Nothing is what it first seems.

Toronto Star