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The Hollow Beast

By Christophe Bernard
Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series
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Winner of the 2025 French-American Translation Prize in Fiction. Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation. A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring Title. Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge. 1911. A... Read More
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Winner of the 2025 French-American Translation Prize in Fiction. Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation. A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring Title.

Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge.

1911. A hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. With the score tied two-two in overtime, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck directly into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Pictou's momentum carries them both across the goal line in a spray of shattered teeth, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts—and Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls across three generations, one hundred years, and dozens of dastardly deeds.

Fuelled by a bottomless supply of Yukon, the high-proof hooch that may or may not cause the hallucinatory sightings of a technicolor beast that haunts not just Monti but his descendants, it's up to Monti's grandson, François—and his floundering doctoral dissertation—to make sense of the vendetta that's shaped the destiny of their town and everyone in it.

Brilliantly translated into slapstick English by Lazer Lederhendler, The Hollow Beast introduces Christophe Bernard as a master of epic comedy.

Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series

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  • The Hollow Beast
    Winner of the 2025 French-American Translation Prize in Fiction. Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation. A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring Title. Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge. 1911. A hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. With the score tied two-two in overtime, local...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781771965552

Publisher: Biblioasis

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 May 2024

Country: Canada

Imprint: Biblioasis

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Translated by Lazer Lederhendler

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 600

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Christophe Bernard Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series

About the Author

Originally from Carleton-sur-Mer in the Gaspe region of Quebec, Christophe Bernard studied literature in Quebec City, Aix-en-Provence and Berlin. A prolific literary translator, Bernard was a finalist for the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for English-to-French Translation. The Hollow Beast, a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in French, won the Quebec-Ontario Prize, the Quebec Booksellers' Prize and the Jovette-Bernier Prize. Christophe Bernard lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Lazer Lederhendleris a full-time literary translator specializing in Quebecois fiction and non-fiction. His translations have earned awards and distinctions in Canada, the UK, and the US. He has translated the works of noted authors, including Gaetan Soucy, Nicolas Dickner, Edem Awumey, Perrine Leblanc, and Catherine Leroux. He lives in Montreal with the visual artist Pierrette Bouchard.

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