"When her long-estranged daughter disappears in Quebec, famous actress Flora Fontanges returns home from Paris and experiences a devastating confrontation with the past."

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This is the story of Edouard, Stephane, and the spirited girl they find alone and apparently lost in Paris. When the two men offer the young Quebec girl shelter for the night, their lives are profoundly and irrevocably changed. Stephane falls quickly for Delphine, but Edouard, a man without expectations who hides from the world in a life of mediocrity and whose only desire is to live and die quietly, is slower to accept her. He is disturbed by Delphine's abrupt arrival in his life, her strange accent, her excessive passion. Then, just as he opens himself to her exuberance and vulnerability, he is torn violently from her and left to unravel the mysteries of her sudden presence and absence. Anne Hebert's fifth novel in translation (originally published under the title Est-ce que je te derange?) springs from a place between dream and reality, and offers a disturbing look into the workings of fascination and obsession. Tortured love, broken childhoods, and the forces of nature and death are woven into this extraordinary, poetic tale from one of Canada's most important writers.

The unfinished memoir of a French soldier-philosopher. While describing bourgeois life in France before and after World War I, he ruminates on the futility of individual conscience in the face of evil.

"Julien is captivated by a beautiful young woman, and his yearning for freedom from his protective mother turns into tragedy. This poetic and haunting novel won the Governor General's Award for French Fiction in 1992."

The first book of new poems in 20 years by the most renowned French Canadian poet of the 20th century. Anne Hébert's haunting poems reflect her apocalyptic vision, which includes the death of love as well as the death of the planet. Bilingual edition. --BOA Editions.