Arachnide Editions
Songs for Angel
Written by Marie-Claire Blais • Translated by Katia Grubisic
Published July 06, 2021 |
ISBN 9781487006327
FICTION / Literary

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About this book
Songs for Angel
Marie-Claire Blais • Katia Grubisic
The ninth novel in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s extraordinary Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel is an impassioned interrogation of violence and hate that takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.
In the penultimate installment of the magnificent and ambitious Soifs cycle, widely regarded as one of the most original and ambitious endeavors ever to be undertaken in contemporary literature, renowned novelist Marie-Claire Blais once again marries the highest artistic standards with the most pressing human and political concerns. Revisiting figures from the previous novels in a swirling fresco of more than a hundred characters, Blais also takes us into the soul of “the Young Man,” a white supremacist preparing to attack a Black church and murder its entire congregation. This is an extraordinary portrait of the times that jostles and discomboluates the reader while inviting us to see the world in all its injustice and distress, but also its promise and beauty. Songs for Angel reminds us that Blais is a writer who never ceases to situate us in the world and the roles we play in it, and that reading her is always an unforgettable human experience.
About the Creators
Marie-Claire Blais
MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS is the internationally revered author of more than twenty-five books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she has won four times, Blais has been awarded the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships. She divides her time between Quebec and Florida.
Katia Grubisic
KATIA GRUBISIC is a Canadian writer, editor, and translator living in Montreal. Her work has appeared in the Malahat Review, Grain, and Prairie Fire, and she served as the editor-in-chief of Arc Poetry Magazine. Her collection of poems What if red ran out won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry. She has been nominated for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and a Governor General’s Literary Award for Brothers, her translation of David Clerson’s Frères. This is her first translation for Arachnide.