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In a near-future world ravaged by climate change,
who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature?
who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature?
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About Fauna
The sumptuous imagery and limpid atmosphere forms a dizzying picture of a world after human existence. This dark, sensual novel invites the reader to imagine nature thriving in the toxic aftermath of human domination, and makes for an essential addition to the recent crop of eco-fiction.
- Publishers Weekly
A spirited vision of the end times that reminds us that a new one will be born out of the old, as savage and alive as the previous one’s primitive beginnings.
- La Presse
Reminiscent of Ovid, Kafka, and Wells . .. [Fauna] depicts the hypnotic Darwinian nightmare our negligence and denial will lead us to in the coming years.
- Le Devoir
About the author
Christiane Vadnais was born in 1986 in Quebec City. Before publishing her critically acclaimed first novel, Faunes, she worked for years in the literary community as an events programmer and project manager. Faunes, a collection of linked stories, is set in a post-climate-change future where humans struggle with a mysterious epidemic while other species adapt and proliferate. The book won the Horizons Imaginaires speculative fiction award, the City of Quebec book award, and was named one of 2018’s best books by Radio-Canada. The Spanish translation has just been published by Volcano Libros. An English translation, Fauna, is forthcoming in Fall 2020 from Coach House Books.
