by Nancy Huston · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742700516
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«Cantique des plaines» is the novel by Nancy Huston, published by Actes Sud in paperback (270 pages, in French).
Four generations of the Sterlings, immigrants on the Alberta plains, pass before the narrator Paula, who addresses her deceased grandfather Paddon: his childhood, his marriage to Karen, his failures as a father and teacher, and his encounter with the Indigenous woman Miranda, who shows him another side of white civilization.
The novel received in 1993 the Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général, in the category Romans et nouvelles.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction interested in family memory, cultural identities, and rural Canada.
Nancy Louise Huston is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
