Quite unlike anything I’ve ever read before, this doorstop of a novel is epic in scope and unrivalled in ambition, one that makes for a truly immersive reading experience.įull of vivid, well-drawn characters and wonderfully evoked settings, it’s a tale that spans several generations of the one Quebec-French family, with each new chapter able to stand alone as a short story. We chose it as our Shadow Giller winner - a totally unanimous decision. Songs for the Cold of Heart was shortlisted for this year’s Giller Prize, but it lost out to Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black. Translated from the French by Peter McCambridge ‘Songs for the Cold of Heart’ by Eric Dupontįiction – paperback QC Fiction 603 pages 2018. So, in a bid to get up to speed before December comes to an end, here’s five books, arranged in alphabetical order according to the author’s surname, that I read during the year that I never quite got around to reviewing. It’s been a crazy few weeks around here… and this blog has been much neglected (my last review was posted some three weeks ago).
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