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White resin / Audrée Wilhelmy ; translated by Susan Ouriou.

by Wilhelmy, Audrée, 1985-

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Arachnide, 2021.

Childbirth -- Fiction.

Nature -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Québec (Province) -- Fiction.

9781487008864 (trade pbk.)

Blanc résine. English

398 p. ; 21 cm.

Translated from the French.

White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it. In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl, Dãa, is born to "twenty-four mothers," the sisters of a convent at the edge of the Quebec taiga. Nearby, at the Kohle Mine Co., a woman dies giving birth to Laure, an albino child, in the workers' canteen. What follows is a dream-like recounting of their love affair and the family they bear, a captivating magic-realist tale of origins and opposites, that would be fantastical if it did not ring so true to the boreal north. White Resin is at once a dream-like romance and an homage to gorgeous, feral, and fecund nature as it stands both against and entwined with the industrial world.

Canadian fiction.

Magic realism (Literature)

French-Canadian fiction -- Translations into English.

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