If You Hear Me

By Pascale Quiviger

Winner of the 2020 Governor General's Award in Translation

A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2020

Sliding doors open and close automatically, exit to the left, entrance to the right. Beyond it, cars go by, and pedestrians and cyclists. A large park behaves as if nothing has happened. The mirage of a world intact.

In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand--but despite their devoted efforts, there's no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world David now inhabits. A moving story of love and mourning, elegantly translated by Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me asks what it means to be alive and how we learn to accept the unacceptable.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771962712
• ISBN13: 9781771962711
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Biblioasis
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 8.2"