Blaise Ndala ouvre une page inédite de l'histoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : la course entre les Alliés et l'Allemagne nazie pour la fabrication de la bombe atomique grâce à l'uranium du Congo belge. Des Amériques à l'Afrique en passant par l'Europe, de Yellowknife au Katanga via Berlin, ce roman puissant rappelle combien le passé est capable de rattraper le présent.

This novel begins when a scientist who has written a popular book of non-fiction attends a literary festival, where she strikes up a friendship with a charismatic novelist. The novelist reveals that her new work is an experiment: a novella she wrote in English only to have it translated and published solely in French—a language the novelist cannot read. Moreover, she has lost her original English manuscript of this work. Hearing this, the scientist, who is fluent in French, impulsively offers to retranslate the novella back into English for the novelist.

As she embarks on this task, the scientist finds herself haunted by vivid memories and distracting questions. These insert themselves into her translation process, troubling it, then disrupting it entirely. She desperately tries to complete her task before losing control of both the work and her well-organized existence.

Cet événement débutera par une lecture Flash FRYE de Guillaume Lavoie (Chavirer, Perce-Neige), suivie d’une discussion entre Paul Kawczak (Le bonheur, La Peuplade) et Blaise Ndala (L’équation avant la nuit, Mémoire d’encrier). Venez écouter nos invités parler de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la trahison, l’art et comment rendre hommage au passé.

This event will begin with a Flash FRYE reading by Vanessa F. Penney (The Witch of Willow Sound, ECW), followed by an in-conversation with Jon Claytor (Nowhere, Goose Lane) and Sara Peters (Mother of God, McClelland & Stewart). Join our guests as they discuss nightly visions, materializing figures, and confronting the incomprehensible.

Junior and Hen are a quiet married couple. They live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with surprising news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Hen won’t have a chance to miss him at all, because she won’t be left alone—not even for a moment. Hen will have company. Familiar company.

Foe examines the nature of domestic relationships, self-determination, and what it means to be (or not to be) a person. An eerily entrancing page-turner, it churns with unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.