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Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize. Finalist for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2015A twenty-five-thousand-copy bestseller in Quebec, Arvida, with its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere, is unforgettable. Like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy, Samuel Archibald's portrait of his hometown, a model town design by American industrialist Arthur Vining Davis, does for Quebec's North what William Faulkner did for the South, and heralds an important new voice in world literature.
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Reviews
"Stephen King with a Quebecois accent."
Paul Marchand, National Post
"Archibald's writing is clean and his imagery strong."
Publishers Weekly
"These are American stories. But another America, a hidden America, maybe even more American than the America we think we know ... These are stories that can only evolve in the imagination, and stories that can do that are a kind of true sustenance."
Asymptote