Marie-Hélène Larochelle

Broschiertes Buch

Daniil and Vanya

Beschreibung

We Need to Talk About Kevin meets Goodnight Mommy in this outrageous modern family thriller. Emma and Gregory have a perfect life--a gorgeous home, a successful design firm--except for their inability to start a family. Following a traumatic failed pregnancy, they decide to travel to Russia to adopt a pair of twin boys. From the moment they board the plane in St. Petersburg, the twins begin to demonstrate perverse behaviour that grows increasingly ominous, driving a wedge between Emma and Gregory, and alienating their friends and family. The two brothers show worrying signs of lack of empathy, and seem to leave behind a trail of disturbing incidents, and rumours persist as the boys grow into teenagers--even as Emma continues to cling to her dream of the perfect family. A dark, violent, and tense novel, Daniil and Vanya shows the bond between parent and child gone horribly awry. A Book of the Year, Quill & Quire "Sinister and awe-inspiringly good."--Chatelaine "Readers will find themselves unable to look away."--Quill & Quire

Autor

Marie-Hélène Larochelle is Associate Professor at York University. Her research is about violence in contemporary French literature. She is the author of two scholarly books, L'abécédaire des monstres. Fragments de Réjean Ducharme (PUL, 2011) winner of Prix de l'Essai 2012. Société des Écrivains francophones d'Amérique, and Poétique de l'invective romanesque, L'invectif chez Louis-Ferdinand Céline et Réjean Ducharme (XYZ, 2008), finalist for Prix Raymond-Klibansky 2010. She is also the author of collective scholarly publications including Le Dire-monstre (Tangence, 2009), Identités monstrueuses: violences et invectives dans le roman francophone européen (Présence francophone, 2010), and Monstres et monstrueux littéraires (PUL, 2008). Daniiel et Vanya is her first novel, and her second novel, Cyan, will be published in 2020. She lives in Toronto.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Invisible Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781988784571
• ISBN-10: 1988784573
• Artikelnr.: 62395266