Faunes / Fauna
by Christiane Vadnais
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In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature?
A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species – humans included – are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her.
Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous and terrifying in its likeness to our own.
Fauna, Christiane Vadnais’s first work of fiction, won the Horizons Imaginaires speculative fiction award, the City of Quebec book award, and was named one of 2018’s best books by Radio-Canada.
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Prix des Horizons imaginaires
Prix de création littéraire de la ville de Québec et du Salon international du livre de Québec 2019
Reviews
‘‘A new novelist you must read.”
★★★★
La Presse
‘‘Vadnais’s exciting debut immerses the reader into the dreamy and menacing near-future world of Shivering Heights, a flooded wilderness in the twilight of the human race. […] This dark, sensual novel invites the reader to imagine nature thriving in the toxic aftermath of human domination, and makes for an essential addition to the recent crop of eco-fiction.”
Publishers Weekly
“Vadnais’s language is a wild garden that encompasses and devours all life.”
Heather O'Neill, author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel
Author Biography
Born in 1986 in Quebec City, Christiane Vadnais has a master in literary studies. Her novel Faunes received a tremendous amount of positive reviews, both from the readers and the critics, a rare treatment for a first book. Shortlisted for both Prix des Horizons imaginaires and Prix Aurora Boréal, she won the well renowned Prix de creation littéraire de la ville de Québec et du SILQ in 2019.
Bibliographic Information
- Publication Date November 2018
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782896944002
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- Pages114
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2018
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