num_pages: 220
description: Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (French language) Shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Marianne, a young Montrealer, has come to live in Tuscany to draw and write and examine her life. Here she meets Marco, a temptingly seductive man who still lives in his mother's house in the village and who's not prepared to commit himself to anything resembling a shared life. Though he breaks her heart, again and again, Marianne can only avoid him by returning to Canada. This first novel by Pascale Quiviger is marked by its luminous language and its unstinting look at what makes Marianne, and Marco, and, indeed, an entire village and the world beyond it, tick.
language: English
title: The Perfect Circle
titlecomplete: The Perfect Circle
genres: Fiction, Canada, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 70
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Romans et nouvelles
publisher: Cormorant Books Inc.