Every month, atuvu.ca offers you a selection of upcoming books. Discover the next 6 literary releases not to be missed in Quebec in September!
The giftKristina Gauthier-Landry
Editions La Peuplade, 264 pages
To be released October 2
Kristina Gauthier-Landry offers here a touching and loving story, speaking directly to the one who gave her everything: her mother. The author who won the Myriam-Caron literary prize in 2021 with her first book And when we reach the end we will take rootalso at La Peuplade continues with The gift to explore themes such as filiation, the relationship between a child and his parents or even freedom.
“Somewhere on an island that is not an island, a woman possesses all the gifts without knowing it, because no one told her: silence, flexibility, memories, and above all, love. One day the daughter she had been waiting for for a long time was born. The child learns to read the world and to thwart fate on this impossible land, where her mother entrusts her with the keys to an undisciplined language. Having grown up, having left for the city where she lives for two, the girl in turn gives birth to her mother by telling their story. »
Ten daysMarie Laberge
Éditions du Boréal, 168 pages
To be released October 7
This is a sixteenth novel that Marie Laberge is preparing to unveil. The actress, director and author who celebrates fifty years of artistic life in 2025 returns here with a gripping novel about medical assistance in dying.
“Ten days. This is what he has left. When the countdown begins, lucidity demands its place without showing off. Now is not the time for lies or detours. The diary that this woman will keep during these ten days will therefore exalt what constitutes the foundations of her life, the failures as much as the glorious hours. Children, lovers, loves, licit or illicit, impulses… strokes of the heart and body, strokes of desire. But above all the naked truth that we avoid or which avoids us when time is elastic. »
Iscold outabanVirginia Pésémapéo-Bordeleau
Éditions du Quartz, 88 pages
To be released October 8
The eeyou multidisciplinary artist Virginia Pésémapéo-Bordeleau returns with a fourth collection of poetry in which we find, alongside her vibrant thoughts, textured photographs taken by Madeleine Bourgeois.
To celebrate the occasion, Éditions du Quartz have decided to reissue a version revisited by the author of Poetry in progress for Sindy and of I want you alive : two books for three collections.
“Iskoude outaban means “car of fire” in the Eeyou language. In this moving text, a woman revisits her territory and some loves, as we see years of clear-cutting. On the way, she echoes the thoughts of Marguerite Duras who affirmed that “in the journey, there is the time of the journey”. »
In my bloodRebecca Makonnen
Éditions Libre Expression, 232 pages
To be released October 9
This month, radio host Rebecca Makonnen officially launches into writing with the release of her first book, In my blood and immerses herself in a quest in which she ventures into her origins.
“Rebecca Makonnen always knew that her family situation was unusual. By digging into its origins, however, it uncovers an even more improbable story. From secrets revealed to unexpected revelations, she delivers a deconstructed and disturbing story. As if we were following her in the past, in her blood, in real time. A breathtaking and moving testimony, carried by a sensitive pen, which reads like a novel. »
Exorcised – Get Me Out of HereGabriel Nadeau
Editions De Mortagne, 304 pages
To be released October 16, 2024
On the side of Éditions de Mortagne, Gabriel Nadeau upsets with Exorcised – Get Me Out of Herea biography in which he looks back on the conversion therapies he survived while telling how it is possible to accept oneself, to better grow and flourish.
“Can you really be possessed by evil spirits?
According to the Pentecostal Christian church I attended as a teenager, yes. When I was thirteen, the prophet diagnosed me with multiple possession: demon of lust, demon of masturbation, demon of femininity…
And, of course, demon of homosexuality.
All because I came out to my mother. I was convinced that I needed to change at all costs, to get rid of this anomaly that was eating away at me from the inside. I just couldn’t be me.
The solution: an exorcism.
And the worst part of all this is that it wasn’t the last. »
Beirut, April 13, 1975Marwan Chahine
Éditions Belfond, 551 pages
To be released October 25
After leading the investigation for more than 7 years, journalist Marwan Chahine reveals Beirut, April 13, 1975: autopsy of a sparka book between a journalistic account and a historical essay which looks back on the attack of April 13, 1975 when a bus carrying Palestinians was stormed by armed men, marking the start of the Lebanese civil war .
“While the event is known to everyone, no one knows what really happened that day. Was this a planned operation? An act of retaliation? A chance incident? The rumors are numerous, the legends tenacious. Back in his father’s country, journalist Marwan Chahine begins to investigate this affair, which is as taboo as it is sulfurous. Despite the culture of silence and general amnesia, he will find, one by one, the protagonists of the drama and manage to put together the countless pieces of this tragic puzzle where reality often exceeds fiction. »
For more information, go to the publishing houses website. In the meantime, we’ll see you next month for other literary releases not to be missed! Find our suggestions from previous months here.
