From the author and translator of And the Birds Rained Down, a 2015 CBC Canada Reads selection
An abandoned mine. A large family driven by honour. And a source of pain, buried deep in the ground.
We’re nothing like other families. We are self-made. We are an essence unto ourselves, unique and dissonant, the only members of our species. Livers of humdrum lives who flitted around us got their wings burned. We’re not mean, but we can bare our teeth. People didn’t hang around when a band of Cardinals made its presence known.
With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they’re congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown in northern Quebec was built around. But as the siblings tell the tales of their feral childhood, we discover that Angèle, the only Cardinal with a penchant for happiness, has gone missing – although everyone has pretended not to notice for years. Why the silence? What secrets does the mine hold?
Praise for the French edition of Twenty-One Cardinals:
‘With its explosive, poignant, funny and tragic story and memorable characters, Les héritiers de la mine is an important novel … Through the destiny of this large family, the author talks about Abitibi, where she lives, and of its broken dreams and cheated workers, the blind power of multinationals,the disappearance of villages and families decimated. Her protagonists have the makings of heroes, the stuff to withstand adversity; they may be local heroes, but their fight is universal.’ — Voir (translated from the French)
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C843/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Translation of: Les héritiers de la mine Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781770564060 9781552453070
- LCCN
- PQ3919.2.S3296
- LCCN Item number
- H4713 2015eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (169 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00930980 (OCoLC)899761636 (CaOOCEL)467754
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Thats my place Smyplace Smyplace Smyplace smy Smyshirt Smyboots Smypen Smyrifle SmyCornflakes Smysweater 31
- Wheres the Old Maid The Old Maid is in the rag room. Why is the Old Maid in there Because the Old Maid is on the rag. 32
- How old was I when I started walking Is it 33
- Smyplace 36
- The one who smiles. 51
- Rosa rosa rosae 72
- The Fruits of the Earth 75
- Smyplace 86
- La Presse 87
- Eskimo eater of raw meat Inuit real man Us us q g 88
- The Prospectors Guide coureur des bois poof 102
- The Prospectors Guide 111
- Ora pro nobis miserere tutti quanti 154
- Stole 156
- Smyplace 168
- Smyplace was 169
- La vie comme une image House of Sighs Jeanne sur les routes Jeannes Road Il pleuvait des oiseaux And the Birds Rained Down 172
- And the Birds Rained Down Il pleuvait des oiseaux Guyana The Decline of the Hollywood Empire 172
- La vie comme une image House of Sighs 173
- Jeanne sur les routes Jeannes Road 173
- Il pleuvait des oiseaux And the Birds Rained Down 173
