Encabanée
Gimme Shelter
by Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba
Éditions XYZ, 2018
100 pages
14×21 cm
Gimme Shelter is an ecofeminist voyage deep into the woods and deep into the self. It is a quest for meaning, far from civilization, a return to the source.
Anouk has traded her cozy Montreal apartment for a run-down cabin in the woods of Kamouraska. Shut up far from everything during the harshest of winters, she writes about the transformation happening within her as a way to master her frugal lifestyle and chase away her fears. Anouk takes the reader on a pilgrimage to revisit her settler roots, with the rigors of winter and a collection of poets to keep her from losing her way. Her story comes to us in the form of a logbook, complete with lists and sketches.
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«The tone is lyrical, the poetry, omnipresent and the subject, militant.»
La Presse
«This grandiose text, as a call to open our eyes, finds a particular echo in the society in which we live today.»
L’Utopie, Paris
Finalist of the Prix Jovette-Bernier
Rights sold: French excl. N. America, French pocket excl. N. America, Italian, Spanish
Rights available in Brazil
Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba writes, translates, illustrates and defends the natural beauty of the untamed forests of North America. Encabanée, her first novel inspired by her own life in Kamouraska, won over a large audience in Canada and abroad. Her triptych continued with Sauvagines (finalist of the France-Quebec Prize 2020 and the Jovette-Bernier Prize 2020) and Bivouac.
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