The Weight of Snow Front Cover


ISBN: 9781772012224
Pages: 240 pp
Pub. Date: March 25 2019
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.625"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Fiction / FIC025000

  • FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
  • FICTION / Action & Adventure
  • FICTION / Psychological

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The Weight of Snow
By Christian Guay-Poliquin
Translated by David Homel

A badly injured man. A nationwide power failure. A village buried in snow. A desperate struggle for survival. These are the ingredients of The Weight of Snow, Christian Guay-Poliquin’s riveting new novel. After surviving a major accident, the book’s protagonist is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for supplies and a chance of escape. The two men become prisoners of the elements and of their own rough confrontation as the centimetres of snow accumulate relentlessly. Surrounded by a nature both hostile and sublime, their relationship oscillates between commiseration, mistrust, and mutual aid. Will they manage to hold out against external threats and intimate pitfalls?

Longlisted 2020 The Sunburst Award

WINNER Prix littéraire France-Québec

WINNER Governor General’s Literary Award for French-Language Fiction

WINNER Prix Ringuet

WINNER Prix littéraire des collégiens

Christian Guay-Poliquin was born in Saint-Armand in 1982. He is now developing a thesis project on the hunting narrative and also works in renovation. The pencil on his ear serves to mark his measures as much as it does to record his ideas. Le fil des kilometers (La Peuplade, 2013) is his first novel, translated as Running on Fumes (Talonbooks, 2016). His second novel is Le poids de la neige (La Peuplae, 2016),

Born and raised in Montreal, Jacob Homel has translated or collaborated in the translation of a number of works, including Nelly Arcan’s Hysteric and Breakneck, The Battle of London and The Last Genet. In 2012, he won the J.I. Segal Translation Prize for his translation of A Pinch of Time. He currently lives in Montreal.