Description
White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.
In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl named Daa, is born to "twenty-four mothers," the sisters of a convent at the edge of the Quebec taiga. Nearby, at the Kohle mining company, a woman dies giving birth to Laure, a child with albinism, in the workers' canteen. What follows is a dream-like recounting of their love affair and the family they bear, a captivating magic-realist tale of origins and opposites, that would be fantastical if it did not ring so true to the boreal north. White Resin is at once a dream-like romance and an homage to gorgeous, feral, and fecund nature as it both stands against and entwined with the industrial world.
About the Author
AUDREE WILHELMY was born in 1985 in Cap-Rouge, Quebec, and now lives in Montreal.She is the winner of France's Sade Award, has been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Prix France-Quebec and the Quebec Booksellers Award. SUSAN OURIOU is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with over sixty translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children's and young-adult literature to her credit. She has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. Jane, the Fox and Me, co-translated with Christelle Morelli, was named to IBBY's Honour List. She has also published Nathan, a novel for young readers. Susan lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Reviews
White Resin is an enchanting, heartbreaking novel.
* Miramichi Reader *White Resin restores a vision of the Canadian wilderness more in line with Indigenous ideas of a mutually dependent relationship between humanity and the natural environment. As a novel for our ecologically riven moment, it's particularly powerful. As a lyrical, strange, occasionally mysterious story, it is unlike most anything else you're likely to read in quite a while.
* That Shakespearean Rag *[A] poetic, imaginative tale about the relationship between nature and industry.
* Chatelaine *The lingering power of the story lies with the vivid imagery Wilhelmy conjures ... Susan Ouriou's translation is a marvel of precision and musicality.
* Canadian Notes & Queries *Awards
Long-listed for Governor General's Literary Award 2022 (Canada).
Book Information
ISBN 9781487008864
Author Audree Wilhelmy
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Weight(grams) 435g
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