ISBN:
9781772015065
Pages: 364 pp
Pub. Date:
July 11 2025
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.875"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Fiction / FIC008000
- FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay
- FICTION / World Literature / Canada / 20th Century
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Sagas
Part of the Desrosiers Diaspora series
Survive! Survive! transports readers to September 1935, to glorious, tragic times in the company of Ti-Lou and “la Duchesse” Édouard, whose sparkling exchanges hide indissoluble pain; to sombre, twilight times with Victoire and Télesphore and between Josaphat and his ill-fated daughter. “How to survive?” they all ask, inextricably caught in life’s cycle of lost illusions and forgotten dreams.
The series closes in August 1941 with Crossing the Gulf of Misfortune, when a grieving Nana and her family must share an apartment with Victoire and Édouard as well as with Albertine and her children. Outside this unbearably crowded household, war rages and rationing rules over daily life. But in a year, in May 1942, Nana – the Fat Woman Next Door – seven months pregnant, will open the fabulous Chronicles of the Plateau-Mont-Royal …
By Michel Tremblay
One of the most produced and the most prominent playwrights in the history of Canadian theatre, Michel Tremblay has received countless prestigious honours and accolades. His dramatic, literary and autobiographical works have long enjoyed remarkable international popularity, including translations of his plays that have achieved huge success in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.
Awards and Recognition*
Prix du Grand (2009) La Traversée de la ville (Leméac Editeur Inc.)
Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix (2006)
Globe and Mail Top 100 Books (2003) Birth of a Bookworm
Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (2000) For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again
Chalmers Awards (1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1989, 2000)
Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (1999)
Molson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (1994)
Louis-Hémon Prize (1994)
Montreal Book Fair Grand Public Prize (1994)
Banff Centre National Award (1992)
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France (1991)
Chevalier of the Order of Quebec (1990)
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Festival Long-Standing Public Service Award (1989)
CBC Anik Prize (1988)
Athanase-David Lifetime Achievement Prize (1988)
Quebec-Paris Prize (1985)
Chevalier of Arts and Letters of France (1984).
