Research Catalog

Title

The faerie devouring / Catherine Lalonde ; translated by Oana Avasilichioaei.

Author

Lalonde, Catherine, 1974-

Publication

Toronto : Book*hug, 2018.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Avasilichioaei, Oana

Description

134 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"A modern-day fable and mythic bildungsroman, The Faerie Devouring tells the story of a young girl raised by her grandmother (a stalwart matriarch and wicked fairy godmother) following her mother's death during childbirth. The absent mother haunts the story of this girl whose greatest misfortune is to have been born female. In this critically-acclaimed coming-of-age story by Quebecois author Catherine Lalonde, and translated by Oana Avasilichioaei, questions of what it means to be born female and grow into a woman are explored. The story is rife with song, myth, phantasmagoria, spells, desire, ferocious poetic telling, wild imagination, and unruly language. Lalonde uses the form of a disenchanted and metaphorical fable to recount what it means to find a life force in one's lineage, even when one is born into "nothing.""--

Series Statement

Literature in translation series

Uniform Title

• Dévoration des fées. English
• Literature in translation series.

Alternative Title

Dévoration des fées.

Subject

• Fairies > Fiction
• Mothers > Death > Fiction
• Grandmothers > Fiction
• Grandparent and child > Fiction
• Families > Fiction
• Sex role > Fiction
• Country life > Fiction
• Country life
• Fairies
• Families
• Grandmothers
• Grandparent and child
• Mothers > Death
• Sex role
• Canada > Fiction
• Canada

Genre/Form

• Fantasy fiction.
• Domestic fiction.
• Bildungsromans.
• Fables.
• Fiction.

Note

• Translation of: La dévoration des fées.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Call Number

JFD 19-1658

ISBN

• 9781771664271
• 1771664274
• 9781771664288 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781771664295 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781771664301 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 1055270242
• 1055270242

Author

Lalonde, Catherine, 1974- author.

Title

The faerie devouring / Catherine Lalonde ; translated by Oana Avasilichioaei.

Publisher

Toronto : Book*hug, 2018.

Edition

First English edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literature in translation series

Literature in translation series.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Language

Translated from the French.

Added Author

Avasilichioaei, Oana, translator.

Other Form:

Lalonde, Catherine, 1974- Dévoration des fées. English. Faerie devouring. First English edition. Toronto : BookThug, 2018. Literature in translation series Literature in translation series (CaOONL)20189042753

Research Call Number

JFD 19-1658