The Immaculate Conception

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Publication Year:
2004

ISBN-13: 9781770890664

<p>East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit's foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell.</p>

<p>Originally published in 1994 as <em>L'Immaculee conception</em>, this is the novel that established Gaetan Soucy as a powerful new literary force in Quebec. In it, he echoes the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. <em>Immaculate Conception</em> was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2006.</p>