The Future
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The Future

Translated from the French
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ABOUT
THE BOOK

In an alternate history of Detroit, strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. Gloria arrives looking for her missing granddaughters, but when intuition sends her into Parc Rouge, where the city’s orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society, she can’t imagine the strength she will find. A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future, The Future is a testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love—together.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Catherine
Leroux

Catherine Leroux is a Quebec novelist, translator and editor. Her novel Le mur mitoyen won the France-Quebec Prize and its English version, The Party Wall, was nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Future won CBC’s Canada Reads 2024, received the Jacques-Brossard award for speculative fiction and was nominated for the Quebec Booksellers Prize. Catherine also won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for her translation of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Her latest book, Peuple de verre, came out in April 2024. She lives in Montreal with her two children.

Catherine Leroux is a Quebec novelist, translator and editor. Her novel Le mur mitoyen won the France-Quebec Prize and its English version, The Party Wall, was nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Future won CBC’s Canada Reads 2024, received the Jacques-Brossard award for speculative fiction and was nominated for the Quebec Booksellers Prize. Catherine also won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for her translation of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Her latest book, Peuple de verre, came out in April 2024. She lives in Montreal with her two children.

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Susan
Ouriou

SUSAN OURIOU is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with over sixty translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children’s and young-adult literature to her credit. She has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. Jane, the Fox and Me, co-translated with Christelle Morelli, was named to IBBY’s Honour List. She has also published Nathan, a novel for young readers. Susan lives in Calgary, Alberta.

SUSAN OURIOU is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with over sixty translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children’s and young-adult literature to her credit. She has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. Jane, the Fox and Me, co-translated with Christelle Morelli, was named to IBBY’s Honour List. She has also published Nathan, a novel for young readers. Susan lives in Calgary, Alberta.

NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Set in an alternate dystopian French colonial Detroit, destroyed by wars and climate change, Gloria, grief-stricken by the mysterious death of her daughter, comes looking for her granddaughters. In her search for her family, Gloria slowly builds bonds and embraces a new family of survivors. Above all, this novel is about the resilience of relationships and the primal desire to create a new life and community. VPL staff selected this novel because of its inspiring characters and wonderful translation, and it’s demonstrated popularity among our patrons. Catherine Leroux is an award winning author. Her novel The Party Wall, a translation of Le mur mitoyen, won the France-Quebec Prize in the original French and, in translation, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The French original of The Future (L’avenir) won the Jacques Brossard Prize. Susan Ouriou is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator. She has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
19/03/2024
Country
Canada
Original Language
French
Publisher
Biblioasis
Translator
Susan Ouriou
Translation
Translated from the French
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