3 Novels by France Daigle
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Overview: France Daigle is the author of eleven novels, including Real Life, 1953, A Fine Passage, Life’s Little Difficulties, and Just Fine. In 2012, she won the Prix Antonine-Maillet-Acadie Vie and the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Fiction. A former news writer for Radio-Canada Acadie, she is currently a columnist for the daily L’Acadie nouvelle. She lives in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Genre: General Fiction, Classic
For Sure: For Sure is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a defense and an illustration of the Chiac language. Written in dazzling prose ? which is occasionally interrupted by surprising bits of information, biography, and definitions that appear on the page ? Daigle perfectly captures the essence of a place and offers us a reflection on minority cultures and their obsession with language.It is also the continuing story of Terry and Carmen, familiar to us from previous works, their children Etienne and Marianne, and all those who gravitate around the Babar, the local bar in Moncton ? the Zablonskis, Zed, Pomme ? artists and ordinary people who question their place in the world from a distinct point of view that is informed by their geography, and by their history, politics, and culture.Masterfully translated from French by award-winning translator Robert Majzels, For Sure is the moving story of a family and a surprising, staggeringly original work that represents a corner of our country.
Just Fine: It is a touching and often hilarious novel that traces the mishaps and misadventures of a conflicted agoraphobe: a woman psychologically restricted to a life indoors but spiritually inclined to wander the meadows, roads, and community beyond the house and river of her youth. Her struggle assumes historic proportions when her neighbors in the small town of Dieppe begin to dream of their own escapes from the insular, predictable cadences of life in Acadia: Camil changes his name; Terry embarks on a voyage of discovery; Carmen studies exotic river deltas; Elizabeth searches for a transcendent love; and the woman at the center of it all, the agoraphobe, dreams of travelling to Paris and telling her story to a French television star. The course of their endeavors, like the river that dominates Dieppe, twists and turns, and playfully reveals a landscape of wonderment and new beginnings. In its brilliant collage of river lore, art history, astrology, and mythology France Daigle’s rich and witty novel journeys beyond the cultural, psychological, and literary bounds within which its characters live and leads us to where history, fantasy, and memory collide.
A Fine Passage: In this extraordinary sequel to Just Fine, we follow many of the same characters who dreamt of escape from the insular, predictable cadences of life in Acadia — from Baltimore to Israel, San Francisco to Denmark, Moncton to Paris — in exploration of their newly gained freedom. Whereas Just Fine had as its central element water, rivers, deltas, springs, and movement from inner landscapes to the sea and open spaces, A Fine Passage has as its central element air, wind, planes, music, and voices from around the world, underscoring the ideas of liberty and sensuality that motivate the book.Terry and Carmen fly to France, and Hans criss-crosses the world with his unfinished Bruegel jigsaw puzzles and his diamonds in tow. New characters are introduced: Claudia, a young and wonderfully independent and confident girl who is asked to post a curious letter for a stranger she’s met in the airport; the Woman Who Smokes Only in Public and loves a man who throws out his handkerchiefs on Thursdays; the Man Who Didn’t Seem to Be Reading and can’t decide where to settle down; and a rabbi or pope who shares his wisdom and unique spirituality with his fellow air travellers.
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