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| Title Statement | The weight of snow / Christian Guay-Poliquin ; translated by David Homel. |
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| Author | Guay-Poliquin, Christian |
| Additional Contributors | Homel, David |
| Publication | ©2019Vancouver, British Columbia: Talonbooks,[2019] |
| Extent of Item | 223 pages |
| ISBN | 9781772012224 (pbk.) 177201222X (pbk.) |
| Other Number | 3556625 |
| General Notes | Translation of: Le Poids de la Neige. |
| Summary | After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in 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 supplies and a chance of escape. Their relationship oscillates between commiseration, mistrust, and mutual aid. Will they manage to hold out against external threats and intimate pitfalls? |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Winter--Fiction |
| Survival--Fiction | |
| Suspicion--Fiction | |
| Abandoned houses--Fiction | |
| Traffic accident victims--Fiction | |
