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Madame Victoria : variations / Catherine Leroux ; translated from the French by Lazer Lederhendler.

by Leroux, Catherine, 1979-

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Biblioasis, 2018.

Women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.

Montréal (Québec) -- Fiction.

9781771962070 (trade pbk.)

"First published in French by Editions Alto, Quebec City, 2015."-- T.p. verso.

"Translation of French book with same title."-- T.p. verso.

In 2001, a womans skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreals Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite a bewildering array of attemps, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and, eventually, forgotten. But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria twelve different histories for the unknown woman. Like musical variations repeating a theme, each Victoria meets her end only after Leroux resurrects her, replacing the anonymous circumstances of her death with a vivid re-imagining of her possible lives.

Canadian fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

Lederhendler, Lazer.

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