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.
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.
| Written By | Gaetan Soucy has written four novels to acclaim in Canada and abroad. He teaches philosophy and lives in Montreal. |
| Written By |
| Gaetan Soucy has written four novels to acclaim in Canada and abroad. He teaches philosophy and lives in Montreal. |
Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Awards: Translation, 2006
Short-listed, ReLit Awards - Novel, 2006
Short-listed, Scotiabank Giller Prize, 2006
Short-listed, QWF Prize for Translation, 2006
“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