Emmanuelle Pierrot

La version qui n’intéresse personne

September 15, 2023
First Novel
320 pages
130 × 197 mm
23 €
9782896986330
978-2-8969-8633-0

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																Emmanuelle Pierrot, La version qui n’intéresse personne
																Emmanuelle Pierrot, La version qui n’intéresse personne

Arriving in Dawson City at eighteen, Sacha and her best friend Tom finally find the family of anarchists and vagabonds they had always dreamed of. They settle on Sixth Avenue in a cabin without electricity or running water, along with Luna, their wolf-dog. From summer jobs to idle winters, sleepless nights to road trips, from lover to lover, the joyful years pass in a world that seems limitless. However, when Sacha falls in love with someone else, Tom feels betrayed: to him, Sacha is nothing more than a whore, an opportunist who deserves to be punished. Tom’s bitterness spreads, and the village takes his side. Then the pandemic strikes. Quarantined in an isolated cabin, alone with a roommate whose advances she tries to fend off, Sacha counts the days, while the confined citizens of Dawson put her on trial.

Shortlisted Prix du Gouverneur Général 2024 Prix littéraire France-Québec 2024, winner of Combat national des livres 202, Prix littéraire des collégien·ne·s 2024, Prix des libraires du Québec 2024
The author

Born in 1994, Emmanuelle Pierrot grew up in the suburbs of Montreal. Between 2012 and 2020, she lived in Dawson City, Yukon; Vancouver and the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia; San Marcos, Texas; Berkeley, California; and New Orleans, Louisiana. She has worked as a street poet, chambermaid, apple picker and tour guide. She currently lives between Montreal and Trois-Pistoles, in the Lower St. Lawrence. La version qui n’intéresse personne (Le Quartanier, 2023), is her first novel.

Strong points

Already a big success in Canada

Multi-award-winning

September 15, 2023
First Novel
320 pages
130 × 197 mm
23 €
9782896986330
978-2-8969-8633-0

“série QR” collection