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La Clameur des ténèbres by Neil Bissoondath , Translated by Paul Gagné and Lori Saint-Martin

Winner of QWF Translation Prize in 2006

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A young man of privileged upbringing leaves his home in the prosperous north of his island nation to teach in the devastated south, where a civil war festers. Over the course of several months, in which he befriends many of the town’s people and becomes teacher not only to the town’s children but to the enlisted men of the local army station, he loses his faith in and hope for the future. The Unyielding Clamour of the Night is a sympathetic novel that enters the mind and soul of a character to reveal the brutal and lasting affects of acts of violence, and how violence only begets violence.

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French, translated from English

Fiction

2006

2-7646-0433-5

Boreal Editions

Montreal

2006

476

hardcover