Fauna

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By Christiane Vadnais

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Fauna by Christiane Vadnais, an engaging work of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, explores a world where nature's boundaries blur, leading to the re-emergence of primal forces. This narrative intertwines human stories with the growing presence of mysterious creatures, building an atmospheric tension set against an increasingly unpredictable ecological backdrop. It captures the essence of transformation and survival in a world where the familiar shifts into the unfamiliar.
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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to eco-fiction and speculative worlds where nature is both enchanting and menacing. Its vivid, poetic language and intertwining stories explore humanity’s relationship with the environment, making it ideal for readers who appreciate a blend of fantasy, science fiction, and ecological themes.

Fauna

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature?

Excerpts to be placed in notable literary journals and blogs. Online and in person readings with the author and translator. Interviews with the author for literary media and on the Coach House website. Co-op available. Print and digital galleys available. Galleys available at Winter Institute and ALA Midwinter Meeting. Online/social media campaign. eBook available at same time as print publication. eBook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and wherever print ISBN is listed.

Description

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature?

A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains, and once safely classified species—humans included—are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her.

Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous and terrifying in its likeness to our own.

Fauna, Christiane Vadnais's first work of fiction, won the Horizons Imaginaires speculative fiction award, the City of Quebec book award, and was named one of 2018's best books by Radio-Canada.

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Fauna by Christiane Vadnais weaves interconnected stories filled with lush and haunting imagery, exploring themes of climate change and nature's power. Reviewers praise the unsettling, sensual prose and the book's Kafka-esque world of dread and transformation. The narrative invites readers to consider humanity's primal instincts, juxtaposing themes of survival and contagion with mythic and Darwinian overtones.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781552454169

Publisher: Coach House Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 November 2020

Country: Canada

Imprint: Coach House Books

Illustration: No

Contributors:

Translated by Pablo Strauss

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 144

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Christiane Vadnais Fiction General Fiction Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction

About the Author

Christiane Vadnais holds an MFA in creative writing, and has long been active as an events programmer and project manager in Quebec’s literary community. Radio-Canada named her a ‘Young Author to Watch’ for 2020. Fauna is her first work of fiction. She lives in Quebec City. Pablo Strauss’s previous translations for Coach House Books are The Country Will Bring Us No Peace, The Supreme Orchestra, and Baloney. He is a two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for translation, for Synapses (2019) and The Longest Year (2017). Pablo grew up in Victoria, B.C., and has lived in Quebec City for fifteen years.