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Fiction Literary

Room With Bath

by (author) Hélène Rioux

translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Apr 2006
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894800761
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $21.95

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Description

Living comfortably in Montreal with the handsome, but inaccessible, Philippe, Eléonore is unable to sustain the facade of outward happiness. Putting career and relationship behind her, she rents a modest 'room with bath’ in a run-down neighbourhood, to reinvent herself and write. As she writes of her life, repressed memories return, until Eléonore comes to terms with the pain of the past.

About the authors

Hélène Rioux has published poetry, news articles, short stories, translations, and seven novels. She received the Prix France-Québec and the Prix ringuet de l’Académie des Lettres du Québec in 2008 forMercredi soir au Bout du monde (translated as Wednesday Night at the End of the World), the Grand Prix littéraire du Journal de Montréal, and the Prix de la Société des Ecrivains canadiens for Chambre avec baignoire in 1992. She has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award five times. Her novels have been translated into English, Spanish, and Bulgarian. She has translated books into French by Elizabeth Hay, Yann Martel, Jeffrey Moore and Johanna Skibsrud. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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Jonathan Kaplansky has translated several titles by Hélène Rioux, as well as several children’s titles and adult titles. His published translations, besides those by Rioux, include work by Annie Ernaux, Hélène Dorion and Serge Patrice Thibodeau. He also translated an extensive biography on filmmaker Frank Borzage. Jonathan Kaplansky studied at Tufts University and Université de Paris III, receiving an MA in French Language and Literature from McGill and an MA in Translation from the University of Ottawa. Originally from Saint John, New Brunswick, he currently lives in Montreal.

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