Book description
Confident, hardworking, and practical, architect Anne Martin is
living the good life in Montreal. Yet one day, high up in her
apartment overlooking the city and the river, at the heart of her
perfectly controlled universe, Anne witnesses a scene that causes a
crack to appear in her life, a crack that slowly widens and eventually
threatens her very existence.
At this time of lost certainty, Anne's work takes her to Tunis. Here,
among the ruins of Carthage, she meets Alessandro Moretti, an Italian
archaeologist who is her senior by nearly twenty years and affects her
as no one ever has. A struggle ensues, between love and jealousy, love
and the fear of abandonment, love and other, even deeper fears. Anne
gradually faces her demons the buried sorrow of a child of a broken
family, the bewilderment caused by a mysterious family tragedy.
"Louise Dupre has crafted a sweet and inspired love story…This
slight but deftly written book shows a writer whose nerve endings lie
near the surface, and whose perceptions of human conflict, loss and
reconciliation are keen and keenly conveyed." 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.
Liedewy Hawke has won both the Canada Council Translation Prize and
the John Glassco Translation Prize, and has been nominated twice for
the Governor Generalís Literary Award for Translation (French to
English). She lives in Toronto.
