Fences in Breathing (ePub ebook)

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

Invited to a quiet Swiss château by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world and its fiery horizon.

Will the strange intoxication that takes hold of her and her characters — sculptor Charles; his sister Kim, about to leave for the far north; and Laure Ravin, a lawyer obsessed with the Patriot Act — allow her to break through the darkness of the world? Fences in Breathing, first published and critically lauded in French as La capture du sombre, and now brought into English by the celebrated translator Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, is a disquieting, dexterous and defiant missive, another triumph by one of North America's foremost practitioners of innovative writing.

'This exotic, disorienting and dazzling novel tells the story of words — of their sound, their taste, their shape — and asks grave and essential questions about time and language.' — La Presse

'[Brossard] writes with a poetic intensity that burns select lines and sometimes entire paragraphs into the reader's mind.' — Montreal Gazette