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Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann

November 12, 2022 by Alison Manley
By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction Tags absurdist, Humour, Lucy Ellman, Plotless fiction

The Electric Baths by Jean-Michel Fortier, Translated by Katherine Hastings

February 15, 2021May 8, 2020 by James M. Fisher

A surprise return home triggers a chain of events, their strands weaving together a sinister web of dreams and reality, truth and lies, secrets and spells.

The Electric Baths*, like its predecessor, The Unknown Huntsman is composed in the … Continue reading

Categories Fiction, QC Fiction, Translation Tags absurdist, Humour, QC Fiction, translation

The Transaction by Guglielmo D’Izzia

May 3, 2020February 7, 2020 by James M. Fisher
Mr. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a real estate transaction, only to find himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy.
Categories Crime, Fiction, Humour, Mystery Tags absurdist, Humour, Italy, Sicily

The Unknown Huntsman by Jean-Michel Fortier

May 7, 2020July 16, 2016 by James M. Fisher

QC Fiction will be releasing their second English language translation of a French novel in November 2016. It is entitled The Unknown Huntsman (Le chassuer inconnu) by Jean-Michel Fortier. Their first release was the excellent Life in the Court of … Continue reading

Categories All Very Best! Winners and Nominees, Fiction, Humour, QC Fiction, Quebec Tags absurdist, fiction, Humour, QC Fiction

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