Female transmission at the heart of the latest novel by Quebecer Lise Gauvin

Female transmission at the heart of the latest novel by

Novelist, essayist and professor emeritus of the French language department at the University of Montreal, Lise Gauvin has received numerous awards and is one of the founding members of the Parliament of Francophone Writers.

In his latest novel And how are you ?it tells the story of Viviane, at the bedside of her dying mother, who remembers the latter’s life, as well as that of her grandmother, also invoking the first woman in their line to have set foot on the American continent, in the XVIIand century. An intergenerational story, biographical fiction », which retraces in depth the history of Quebec.

And how are you ? appeared on April 21 in Editions Des Femmes-Antoinette Fouque

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