Bøger af Christian Guay-Poliquin

After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in the snow and cut off from the world by a nationwide power failure. He is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for wood, food, and eventual escape from the village. Will they manage to stand up against external threats and intimate pitfalls?

In Falling Shadows, a lone man walks in the forest towards the hunting camp where his family has taken refuge to escape the upheaval caused by a widespread power failure. He knows he is threatened. One day, having lost his way, a twelve-year-old boy, mysteriously fearless and familiar, calls out to him. The unusual duo will have to face the hostility of the wilderness and thwart the offensive groups that now inhabit the woods. This is Québec writer Christian Guay-Poliquin¿s much anticipated third instalment in the series of gripping post-apocalyptic novels initiated with Running on Fumes and prolonged by the international bestseller The Weight of Snow, both translated by Governor General¿s Award winner David Homel and published by Talonbooks in 2016 and 2019. The Weight of Snow was long-listed for the 2020 Sunburst Award and was translated into fifteen languages. Throughout these novels, Guay-Poliquin has developed a unique storytelling craft; his narratives are grounded in the demands and details of daily life and in a world ripe with experience. Adventurous and cleverly assembled, Falling Shadows questions the meaning of community and revisits the thrilling excitement associated with the wilderness and survival classics like McCarthy¿s The Road and King¿s The Stand.

Nach einem schweren Autounfall ist ein junger Mann gezwungen, auszuharren: in einem Dorf, das durch einen landesweiten Stromausfall und unaufhörlich fallenden Schnee immer mehr von der Welt abgeschnitten wird, und bei einem älteren, hier ebenfalls nur gestrandeten Mann. Der nimmt ihn nur auf, weil die Dorfgemeinschaft ihm im Gegenzug die Versorgung mit Lebensmitteln verspricht sowie einen Platz im einzigen Konvoi. Während das Dorf immer tiefer im Schnee versinkt, schwanken die beiden Männer zwischen Mitleid und Misstrauen, Hilfsbereitschaft und Hass. Werden sie durchhalten, bis es taut?Christian Guay-Poliquin, Jahrgang 1982, ist ein kanadischer Autor aus Quebec. "Das Gewicht von Schnee" ist sein zweiter Roman und wurde 2017 u.a. mit dem Governor General's Award for Fiction ausgezeichnet.