{"product_id":"to-the-forest-paperback","title":"To the Forest - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnaïs Barbeau-Lavalette\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRhonda Mullins\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e49th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen a family is forced to return to the mother's childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent beauty of the natural world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFleeing the city at the beginning of the pandemic, two families are cramped together in a small century-old country house. Winter seeps through the walls, the wallpaper is peeling, and mice make their nest in the piano. Without phones or internet, they turn to the outdoors, where a new language unfolds, a language of fireflies and clover. The five children explore nature and its treasures, while our narrator, Anaïs, turns to the eccentric neighbours and her own family history to find peace and meaning in the middle of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e is a field guide to a quieter life, a call to return to the places where we can reweave the threads of memory, where existence waltzes with death, where we can recapture what it means to be alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1979, and named an Artist for Peace in 2012, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette has directed several award-winning documentary features. She also directed two fiction features: \u003ci\u003eLe Ring\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eInch'allah\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), which received the Fipresci Prize in Berlin. She is the author of the travelogue \u003ci\u003eEmbrasser Yasser Arafat\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and the novels \u003ci\u003eJe voudrais qu'on m'efface (Neighbourhood Watch)\u003c\/i\u003e and the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eLe femme qui fuit (Suzanne)\u003c\/i\u003e, Prix des libraires du Québec, Prix France-Québec, Prix de la ville de Montréal, and shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and Canada Reads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhonda Mullins is a Montreal-based translator who has translated many books from French into English, including Jocelyne Saucier's \u003ci\u003eAnd Miles To Go Before I Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, Grégoire Courtois' \u003ci\u003eThe Laws of the Skies\u003c\/i\u003e, Dominique Fortier's \u003ci\u003ePaper Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, and Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's \u003ci\u003eSuzanne\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a seven-time finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation, winning the award in 2015 for her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's \u003ci\u003eTwenty-One Cardinals\u003c\/i\u003e. Novels she has translated were contenders for CBC Canada Reads in 2015 and 2019 and one was a finalist for the 2018 Best Translated Book Award. Mullins was the inaugural literary translator in residence at Concordia University in 2018. She is a mentor to emerging translators in the Banff International Literary Translation Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734728806463,"sku":"9781552454633","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7098b6b68c4e4f36a4a06948f7b92411.webp?v=1765140889","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/to-the-forest-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}