These Festive Nights by Marie-Claire Blais , Translated by Sheila Fischman
Winner of QWF Translation Prize in 1999

Originally published in French under the title Soifs, critics around the world called this book a tour de force, comparing Blais with Virginia Woolf, Dante, Sophocles, and Shakespeare.
This swirling, baroque fresco captures the mood of our apocalyptic age, rendering it in powerfully evocative prose.
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French, translated from English
Fiction
1999
0-88784-6017
House of Anansi Press
Toronto
1999
304
softcover
