Rue des Rosiers

by Rhea Tregebov

Overview

Sarah is the youngest of the three Levine sisters. At twenty-five, she is rudderless, caught in a paralysis that keeps her from seizing her own life.

When Sarah is fired from her Toronto job, a chance stay in Paris opens her up to new direction and purpose. But when she reads the writing on the wall above her local Metro subway station, death to the Jews, shadows from childhood rise again. And as her path crosses that of Laila, a young woman living in an exile remote from the luxuries of 1980s Paris, Sarah stumbles towards to an act of terrorism that may realize her childhood fears.

In this new novel by the author of The Knife Sharpener's Bell, writing that is both sensual and taut creates a tightly woven, compelling narrative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781989496275
Publisher:	Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, Limited
Publication date:	05/01/2019
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Rhea Tregebov's first novel, The Knife Sharpener's Bell, published by Coteau Books, won the J.I. Segal Award for fiction, was shortlisted for the Kobzar Award, and was listed in the Globe and Mail's top 100 books. An award-winning poet and celebrated author of children's picture books, Tregebov has also edited numerous anthologies.

Born in Saskatoon and raised in Winnipeg, she did postgraduate studies at Cornell and Boston Universities, worked for many years as a freelance writer and editor in Toronto, and from 2004 to 2017 was a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. Now an Associate Professor Emerita at UBC, Tregebov continues to live and write in Vancouver.

Editorial Reviews

Gripping new novel looks at how a violent event gives a woman her life."

Vancouver Sun - Dana Gee

Rue des Rosiers will stay with readers for a long time…the novel is a master-class in the intelligent handling of voice.”

The Ormsby Review - Paul Headrick

The novel is beautifully written and is one that I definitely will want to read again as the themes are so important for the times we are all living through.”

Lee Trentadue

Armand Ruffo is definitely a writer with a future, a writer to be watched." - Tomson Highway

"A powerful evocation of Canada's most famous fake. In a virtuoso orchestration of poetry, fiction, reminiscence, letter, news report, Armand Ruffo captures the contradictions of this ne'er-do-well who recreated himself out of his own impossible romantic childhood dreams." - Rudy Wiebe

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