Fences in Breathing

Nicole Brossard is a poet, novelist and essayist who has published more than thirty books since 1965, including These Our Mothers, Lovhers, Mauve Desert and Baroque at Dawn. She co-founded La Barre du Jour and La Nouvelle Barre du Jour, two important literary journals in Quebec. She has won two Governor General's Awards for poetry, as well as le Prix Athanase-David and the Canada Council's Molson Prize. Her work has been translated into several languages. She lives in Montreal.

'This exotic, disorienting and dazzling novel tells the story of words -- of their sound, their taste, their shape -- and asks grave and essential questions about time and language.' -- La Presse '[Brossard] writes with a poetic intensity that burns select lines and sometimes entire paragraphs into the reader's mind.' -- Montreal Gazette 'The atmosphere of reverie that mesmerizes the novel's characters and sends them careening into other selves also overcomes the reader ... Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood's translation is noteworthy, bold and pulsing with Brossardesque poetic energy ('suspiteful' -- yum). The English version is suggestive without being overt, and playful without seeming clever; it's the perfect translation of an elegant, complicated book.' -- Globe and Mail