{"product_id":"the-fat-woman-next-door-is-pregnant-paperback","title":"The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichel Tremblay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSheila Fischman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the glorious second day of May, 1942. The sun is drawing the damp from earth still heavy with the end of a long Quebec winter, the budding branches of the trees along rue Fabre and in Parc Lafontaine of the Plateau Mont Royal ache to release their leaves into the warm, clear air heralding the approach of summer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeven women in this raucous Francophone working-class Montreal neighbourhood are pregnant--only one of them, \"the fat woman,\" is bearing a child of true love and affection. Next door to the home that is by times refuge, asylum, circus-arena, confessional and battleground to her extended family, with ancient roots in both rural Quebec and the primordial land of the Saskatchewan Cree, stands an immaculately kept but seemingly empty house where the fates, Rose, Mauve, Violet and their mother Florence, only ever fleetingly and uncertainly glimpsed by those in a state of emotional extremis, are knitting the booties of what will become the children of a whole new nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this first of six novels that became his \u003ci\u003eChronicles of the Plateau Mont Royal\u003c\/i\u003e, Tremblay allows his imagination free reign, fictionalizing the lives of his beloved characters, dramatized so brilliantly in his plays and remembered so poignantly in his memoirs.\"The fat woman\" both is and is not Michel Tremblay's mother--her extended family and neighbours more than a symbol of a colonized people: abandoned and mocked by France; conquered and exploited by England; abused and terrorized by the Church; and forced into a war by Canada supporting the very powers that have crushed their spirit and twisted their souls since time immemorial. This is a \"divine comedy\" of the extraordinary triumphs and tragedies of ordinary people caught up by circumstances that span the range of the ridiculous to the sublime.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Tremblay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most produced and the most prominent playwrights in the history of Canadian theatre, Michel Tremblay has received countless prestigious honours and accolades. His dramatic, literary and autobiographical works have long enjoyed remarkable international popularity, including translations of his plays that have achieved huge success in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAwards and Recognition*\u003cbr\u003ePrix du Grand (2009) \u003ci\u003eLa Traversée de la ville\u003c\/i\u003e (Leméac Editeur Inc.)\u003cbr\u003eBlue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix (2006)\u003cbr\u003eGlobe and Mail Top 100 Books (2003) \u003ci\u003eBirth of a Bookworm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (2000) \u003ci\u003eFor the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChalmers Awards (1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1989, 2000)\u003cbr\u003eGovernor General's Performing Arts Award (1999)\u003cbr\u003eMolson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (1994)\u003cbr\u003eLouis-Hémon Prize (1994)\u003cbr\u003eMontreal Book Fair Grand Public Prize (1994)\u003cbr\u003eBanff Centre National Award (1992)\u003cbr\u003eOfficer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France (1991)\u003cbr\u003eChevalier of the Order of Quebec (1990)\u003cbr\u003eSan Francisco Lesbian and Gay Festival Long-Standing Public Service Award (1989)\u003cbr\u003eCBC Anik Prize (1988)\u003cbr\u003eAthanase-David Lifetime Achievement Prize (1988)\u003cbr\u003eQuebec-Paris Prize (1985)\u003cbr\u003eChevalier of Arts and Letters of France (1984) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheila Fischman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Saskatchewan, Sheila Fischman is a member of the Order of Canada and has a doctorate from the University of Waterloo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA two-time Governor General's Award winner, Fischman has translated from French to English more than a hundred novels by such prominent Quebec writers as Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Anne Hébert, François Gravel, Marie-Claire Blais and Roch Carrier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2008, Fischman was awarded the prestigious Molson Prize for her outstanding contributions to Canadian literature.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1981\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772973613344,"sku":"9780889221901","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5daa47adca8dd160a9f978bdd08a5960.webp?v=1780417623","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-fat-woman-next-door-is-pregnant-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}