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Le Silence de la Cité

(The Silent City)

The novel is one of the more sensitive explorations of gender and identity since The Left Hand of Darkness... a haunting, evocative tone. Locus

Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne

More than three centuries have passed since the climate catastrophes of the late second millennium. The heirs of the destroyed civilization live in a subterranean City with their technological doubles, less and less numerous and more and more deranged. Élisa is the last child in the City, a little girl with amazing abilities. The creation of her father Paul's genetic experiments, she is the harbinger of a resolutely new humanity. But will Élisa be able to free herself from a past that has literally made her and at the same time free her many children from it ? And what about the men - and more to the point, the women - who are living outside the Cities and who survived generations of barbarity and all sorts of mutations ?

Élisabeth Vonarburg Le Silence de la Cité (The Silent City) 325 pages, $13.95