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Rencontre with Jan Carson

  • Thursday November 21
  • 7:30pm
    In English.
  • Admission free ; reservation recommended

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Following the novel The Fire Starters (2021), of which the French translation was a finalist for the prestigious prix Femina étranger and prix Médicis étranger, and the equally lauded novel The Raptures (2023), the writer Jan Carson returns with Le fantôme de la banquette arrière (2024), the French translation of Quickly, While They Still Have Horses, recently published by Sabine Wespieser. In this collection of short stories, Jan invites readers on sixteen fantastic journeys set in Northern Ireland and coloured by tragicomedy and tenderness. Deliciously ferocious, elegantly constructed, these stories weave together raw realism and magical realism. Although the memory of The Troubles is never far, the author offers us a fascinating portrait of her homeland, a complex and unique place, while painting a lucid and sometimes melancholy tableau of a world where almost anything can happen.