Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom

By Marie-Claire Blais

With this astounding fourth novel in her ongoing series of contemporary masterpieces, Marie-Claire Blais invites us again to enter a complex circle of unforgettable characters. But this time, the tone is different: Blais' writing has acquired a new, buoyant, electrifying rhythm -- a rhythm described as the heartbeat of the world. As we follow a central character named Rebecca, the voice in the novel becomes the voice of the world inventing itself, and the future playing itself out. Here Nigel Spencer, Marie-Claire Blais' longtime translator, gives us Blais' singular vision in supple English prose that is as transcendent and nuanced as the original French.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887848257
• ISBN13: 9780887848254
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.0"