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Fauna Christiane Vadnais

Fauna By Christiane Vadnais

Fauna by Christiane Vadnais


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Fauna by Christiane Vadnais

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.

Fauna Reviews

... a lush, haunting book of climate fiction ... Vadnais's prose is unsettling, imbued with a weighty, wet sensuality and an encroachment of life that is both frightening and strangely seductive in a Kafka-esque world of dread and bodily transformation. Survival and contagion swirl around each other in deadly battle as Vadnais's characters rebel, fight, or give into the bitter, primitive hunger that threatens to swallow their world whole. -Booklist, starred review, Leah von Essen

A spirited vision of the end times that reminds us that a new one will be born out of the old, as savage and alive as the previous one's primitive beginnings. -La Presse

Reminiscent of Ovid, Kafka, and Wells ... [Fauna] depicts the hypnotic Darwinian nightmare our negligence and denial will lead us to in the coming years. -Le Devoir

Vadnais's language is precise, rich in imagery, unsettling. The quality of the writing makes for a raw, searing read. -L'Express

With a devotion to language, to rhythm, to imagery (beautifully translated by Pablo Strauss) Vadnais injects a mythical, even scriptural quality to the stark realities of global warming. -Locus Magazine

The central question of the book is whether or not it is time for humanity to get back to wilder times, and Vadnais rightly leaves the answer to that important question up to the reader. -Understory Magazine

About Christiane Vadnais

Christiane Vadnais holds an MFA in creative writing, and has long been active as an events programmer and project manager in Quebec's literary community. Radio-Canada named her a 'Young Author to Watch' for 2020. Fauna is her first work of fiction. She lives in Quebec City. Pablo Strauss's previous translations for Coach House Books are The Country Will Bring Us No Peace, The Supreme Orchestra, and Baloney. He is a two-time finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for translation, for Synapses (2019) and The Longest Year (2017). Pablo grew up in Victoria, B.C., and has lived in Quebec City for fifteen years.

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NGR9781552454169
9781552454169
1552454169
Fauna by Christiane Vadnais
New
Paperback
Coach House Books
2020-11-05
144
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