The Indiscernible Movement

Winner of the Governor General’s Award for fiction in 1997, the work of Quebec writer Aude is available to English readers for the first time. In this novella comprized of carefully observed short fictions, we encounter diverse voices —the survivor of a prison camp, a runaway teenager— characters reacting to loss, death, and the possibilities of caring. A writer of originality and scope, fiction that cannot be missed.

Aude was born in Montreal in 1947 and has lived near Quebec City since 1971. She has published three novels, four short fiction books, and two children’s storybooks. With a writing style that takes a profoundly unblinking look at the disturbing or trifling movements of the soul, she uses unambiguous, cutting edge language, in which everything matters, and always will. She places her readers in thought-provoking fictitious universes, where she strives to uncover all those secret, indescribable worlds inside us all, which make up the very thread of our being. Aude lives in Quebec City.