Kiss the Undertow

A Novel

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Marie-Helene Larochelle, Marie-Hélène Larochelle

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The water slurps my shoulders, torso, and back in a big, wet kiss, bending my image into an ironic clone of the truth. I bow to its dominance and let it break me open. The water alone will have me.Watched obsessively by her guru-like coach, a nameless swimmer battles the element of water in a gruelling physical regimen. Outside of training, she floats loose in waters murky, salty, and chlorinated, engaging in aimless self-destruction, restraint looming just beyond her drifting hand. Incrementally, swimming is killing her; the pool is killing her. Hovering always nearby is a prickly vulture, waiting to feed on the swimmer’s remains …Intense and immersive, Kiss the Undertow is a psychologically gripping account of endurance pushed to extremes.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-18
Mått133 x 203 x 15 mm
Vikt163 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagHouse of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
ISBN9781487012106
ÖversättareWinters, Michelle

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MARIE-HÉLÈNE LAROCHELLE used to be a competitive swimmer and is now an associate professor at York University. Her research and writing focus on invective, violence, and discomfort in literature, areas abundantly explored in her first novel, Daniil and Vanya. Kiss the Undertow (Je suis le courant la vase) was a French-language finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. She lives in Toronto.MICHELLE WINTERS is a writer, painter, and translator born and raised in Saint John, NB. Her debut novel, I Am a Truck, was shortlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is the translator of Kiss the Undertow and Daniil and Vanya by Marie-Hélène Larochelle. She lives in Toronto.