Winner of the Western Canada Jewish Book Awards’ Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction.
Short-listed for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
2019
[Coteau Books]
Wolsak & Wynn
264 pp 5.5″ x 8.5″
ISBN: 9781550506990
A young Canadian woman’s search for her own identity brings her to Paris in 1982, and sets her on a collision course with an act of terror.
Sarah is the youngest of the three Levine sisters. At twenty-five, she is rudderless, caught in a paralysis which keeps her from seizing her own life.
When Sarah is fired from her Toronto job, a chance stay in Paris opens her up to new direction and purpose.
But when she reads the writing on the wall above her local Métro subway station, death to the Jews, shadows from childhood rise again. And as her path crosses that of Laila, a young woman living in an exile remote from the luxuries of 1980s Paris, Sarah stumbles towards to an act of terrorism that may realize her childhood fears.
In this new novel by the author of The Knife Sharpener’s Bell, writing that is both sensual and taut creates a tightly woven, compelling narrative.
praise
“Rue des Rosiers will stay with readers for a long time…the novel is a master-class in the intelligent handling of voice.” —Paul Headrick, The Ormsby Review [read full review→]
“Gripping new novel looks at how a violent event gives a woman her life. CanLit standout Vancouver’s Rhea Tregebov follows up her hit novel The Knife Sharpener’s Bell with her second work of fiction, Rue Des Rosiers.” —Dana Gee, Vancouver Sun [read full review→]
“The novel is beautifully written and is one that I definitely will want to read again as the themes are so important for the times we are all living through. ” —Lee Trentadue, Galiano Island Books (49th Shelf Shelf-Talkers Booksellers’ Spring Pick)
“[…] a wholehearted literary love letter to the French city. Sarah is the proverbial free woman in Paris, ‘unfettered and alive’ […]” —Norman Ravvin, The Canadian Jewish News [read full review→]
“Rue des Rosiers will stay with readers for a long time … the novel is a master-class in the intelligent handling of voice.” —Paul Headrick, The Ormsby Review [read full review→]
“Rue Des Rosiers is not just an exemplary novel, it’s also an important book…” —Shelley A. Leedahl, SaskBooks Reviews [read full review→]
