num_pages: 336
description: In the isolated parish of Nativité, 75 residents have recently died in a blaze. The survivors’ fractured world is suffocatingly circumscribed by neighbors and the Church. Focusing on troubled bank clerk Remouald Tremblay and desperately unrequited Clémentine Clément, Gaétan Soucy’s acclaimed fourth novel explores the same ominously enchanted terrain as his award-winning Vaudeville! Soucy brilliantly illuminates the dark corners where ordinary people fear to look and reminds that for every moment of justice, there are numerous crimes that will remain forever secret.
language: English
title: The Immaculate Conception
titlecomplete: The Immaculate Conception
genres: Novels, France, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 159
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize
publisher: House of Anansi Press