Book description
Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman
overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an
old wound: some 20 years ago Emma's teenage sister vanished without a
trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is
painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle
dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly
than in this luminous novel. In Memoria's multi-layered
narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow
reconstruction of Emma's outer and inner world, a world of dizzying
sensuality, deep sadness, bewitchingly beautiful images, and,
ultimately, "the small circle of new beginnings."
"Memoria paints a credible, at times moving, portrait of a woman
coming to terms with a troubled familial past, and finally looking into
the future." Louise Dupré is the author of numerous books and was
twice nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Her novel
La memoria won two major literary prizes. La Voie lactee (The Milky
Way), her most recent book, was nominated for the 2001 Prix
France-Quebec. Louise Dupre teaches literature and creative writing at
the Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
