Christian Guay-Poliquin - The Weight of Snow

“A hypnotic, claustrophobic story… Guay-Poliquin manages to keep us on our heels until the very end. A book that shines like snow melting under a winter sun.”

“The novel’s dramatic force is perfectly mastered, and results in one of the biggest successes of the year.”

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Talonbooks is a small, independent, Canadian book publishing company. We have been publishing works of the highest literary merit since the 1960s. With more than 500 books in print, we offer drama, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by local playwrights, poets, and authors from the mainstream and margins of Canada’s three founding nations, as well as both visible and invisible minorities within Canada’s cultural mosaic. Learn more about usor about the author, Christian Guay-Poliquin.

© 2016 Christian Guay-Poliquin

© 2016 Éditions La Peuplade

Translation © 2019 David Homel

The author used the opportunity provided by this translation to make certain changes to his novel.

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First electronic edition: 2020

Interior and cover design by Typesmith

Talonbooks acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, and the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

This work was originally published in French as Le poids de la neige by Éditions La Peuplade, Saguenay, Québec, in 2016 . We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the National Translation Program for Book Publishing, an initiative of the Roadmap for Canada’s Official Languages 2013–2018: Education, Immigration, Communities, for our translation activities.

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

Guay-Poliquin, Christian, 1982–

[Poids de la neige. English]

The weight of snow : a novel / Christian Guay-Poliquin; translated by David Homel.

Translation of: Le poids de la neige.

isbn 978-1-77201-2224 (softcover)

i. Homel, David, translator ii. Title. iii. Title: Poids de la neige. English

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EPUB ISBN: 978-1-77201-256-9