Every month, atuvu.ca offers you a selection of upcoming books. Discover the next 6 literary releases not to be missed in Quebec in November!
The most extraordinary journeyMarc Garneau
Editions Michel Lafon,
To be released November 4
The first Canadian astronaut to fly into space, Marc Garneau, gives us his memoirs in a book entitled The most extraordinary journey. This autobiographical work retraces his journey, from his trip to space in October 1984 to his political commitment through his personal challenges.
SwimmingAndrée A. Michaud
Éditions Québec America, 312 pages
To be released November 5
With Swimmingnovelist Andrée A. Michaud offers a new novel with breathtaking suspense. Max, Laurence and Charlie arrive at the Lac aux Sables campsite for a dream vacation as they promised themselves. Little Charlie goes swimming, the parents toast, but an incident occurs, then a second. Max insists on leaving but outside, night has set in and the storm is brewing. Aboard their RV, the family heads in the wrong direction and finds themselves on a narrow forest path, which will lead them towards horror.
I put my dreams on the tableMartin Chumova
The August Horse, 144 pages
To be released November 5
I put my dreams on the table by Martina Chumova is a self-fictional book in four movements that addresses the experiences of motherhood, depression and precariousness in a woman who writes. The Prague-born author frees herself from oppressive discourses linked to identity and migration and joins an existence in perpetual evolution, reconnecting with the possibilities that lie dormant within us.
“Meanwhile, every evening, every night and every morning, emaciated men came down my street, the new one, the one with a thousand three hundred and fifty dollar rent, towards the south, towards Sainte-Catherine, towards the river, running and staggering, in screaming, vociferating or shouting, their hoarse voices inhabited by two or three people. The women, for their part, uttered the cries of a bird being skinned and burst into flames as they pushed them; I could not hear their cry other than that of a bird bursting into flames. »
Among the womenAimée Lévesque
Editions La Peuplade, 344 pages
To be released November 6
Aimée Lévesque, for her part, unveils a second book from Éditions La Peuplade. Among the women is a poetic story which, like a literary mausoleum, pays homage to twenty-eight extraordinary women, forgotten and neglected by History. From Nora Barnacle, wife of Irish novelist James Joyce, to Zdeňka Hejduková, a young Czech killed for an unknown reason by the Nazis, including Inela Nogić, winner of “Miss Sarajevo under siege”, Aimée Lévesque publishes the fruit of several years of research .
“In Bosnia-Herzegovina, if the forests and mountains seem so intact, it is partly because they are mined. That these mines can slide down with the rills of water and the landslides which streak the mountain very steeply when the rain falls heavily – orange rivers which we hope do not carry anything explosive when they touch our road in laces. »
Juice pressValérie Chevalier and Matthieu Simard
Editions Hurtubise, 224 pages
To be released on November 14
Valérie Chevalier and Matthieu Simard unite for the first time and offer a novel written together full of humanity and humor with endearing characters, which the reader discovers through an epistolary exchange.
“There is Hugo, who writes a letter to Santa Claus for his little boy. Then there is Pauline, the Canada Post volunteer, who answers him. From one letter to another, a unique relationship develops between these two complex beings, sometimes silly, often fragile, but very endearing. »
not even deadGeneviève Rioux
STANKÉ Editions, 248 pages
To be released on November 20
The writer and doctoral student in psychology Geneviève Rioux, who already has several publications including the poetry collection Survivaces (Mémoire d’encrier, 2022), arrives with not even dead published by Éditions STANKÉ. The woman who is also the survivor of an attempted murder and sexual assault explores in this novel the workings of an investigation and addresses the trajectory of a victim facing the legal system.
“March 27, 2016. Steph is the victim of an attempted rape and murder in the dead of night. The shock wave awakens a deep wound around her and within herself; history repeats itself. Then a question burns.
Toe, who are you? Steph fought you and resisted you. You lost in death, she gained in life. »
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.
