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Nanabush’s kiss
“He is a very prolific Ojibway native writer. In this book, he describes cheater — He is a prankster, a troublemaker in local mythology — who comes into a community in the form of a person on a motorcycle and makes a bit of a mess in people’s daily lives. It’s really funny, there’s a lot of humour, the dialogues are tasteful; In the various primitive universes, especially as we find them in what is now English Canada, the author skilfully combines the supernatural with the real. I think it is a perfect mix between tradition and modernity. He is a writer to discover. »
Nanabush’s kiss
Drew Hayden Taylor, translated by Eva Lavergne
are talking
Heat it up outside
“The author is an Innu poet from Mashteyuatsh, a community near Roberwal. In this collection, the starting point is separation. It allows him to go back to the past and beautiful moments shared with a loved one. Despite the sense of pain, loss, this is poetry rooted in the carnal side and, at the same time, in popular culture and territory. […] It is like medicine for the heart, reading this collection is good; One has the impression of being with the narrator on the river bank, listening to the wind in the trees. It is very touching, very funny at times and very sensual. »
Heat it up outside
Marie-Andre Gill
the people
We don’t cry at bingo
“This is the first novel of one of my favorite authors, which was translated a few years ago. We follow the author’s ego from childhood to adulthood. […] Set in another province, in a remote Aboriginal community, we instantly relate to the characters as we always know them. With Don Dumont, there’s always a lot of humor, a lot of self-deprecation. She has a gift for touching on sometimes difficult subjects, such as the history of residential schools, without turning to tears or falling into pathos, thanks to irony. It’s a feel-good read, a one-off read, and one that allows us to enter the Aboriginal question, but from another angle. »
We don’t cry at bingo
Translated by Dan Dumont and Daniel Grenier
Hanover
