Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost

ISBN-10: 1897151896
ISBN-13: 9781897151891
Category: Paradise
Pages: 354
Language: English
Published: 2010
Author: Hélène Rioux

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"Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost sparkles like a diamond."---L'actualite "What a delight to discover these seenes and characters created by Helene Rioux. This subtly written narrative deserves success."---Le Canada francais "If you enjoyed Wednesday Night at the End of the World, you will be delighted by Wandering Souls."---Entre les lignes "Kaplansky's translation is rendered in fluid prose, conveying the rich and varied imagery of the original text... Wednesday Night at the End of the World takes the reader on a journey that goes beyond the predictable, delivering surprises as well as mystery. It gives us an inkling of a world of fragmented individuals, held together not by the bonds of kinship, friendship, or solidarity, but by escapist needs and habits."---Montreal Review of Books "Helene Rioux ... uses slender, evocative threads of coincidence to tie together these loosely connected stories, and catching the clues is a delight."---Canadian Literature "Wednesday's premise is to show that a network of links exists among these stories occurring all over the world. With this clever interconnecting of many ordinary lives, Wednesday is a well put-together novel that examines the stark reality of life. A good read for anyone interested in the complexity of human nature."---The Rover What is paradise? An unscented flower? A plumed bird? A high theatre balcony? Is it a medieval city surrounded by walls, a desert oasis, or the bare, virgin expanses of the North? For some, paradise is the familiar, idealized: a garden with rivers of milk and honey; a childhood remembered but never lived. For others, it is a far-off destination: a dreary landscape beyond the constellations, where cherubs play the lyre upon clouds; a room in which to await resurrection. Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost frames cab drivers, exotic dancers, revellers, mourners, and geniuses --- from places like Montreal, New York, Corsica, Cabarete, and Heaven itself --- within the space of one spring solstice day. Using ardent, melodic prose, author Helene Rioux pieces together their disparate lives to form a mosaic of the human longing for a better existence. Wandering Souls of Paradise Lost is the second novel in Helene Rioux's four-part Fragments of the World series. The first novel, Wednesday Night at the End of the World, was published by Cormorant Books Inc. in 2009.

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