About this ebook
In Wonder past and present, science and emotion, speak to each other to create a brilliant whole from three distinct parts. Readers are swept from a devastating volcanic eruption in 1902 to today's Montreal by way of a scientific love story in Victorian England. Along the way we follow Baptiste Cyparis, "The Man who Lived Through Doomsday," who traveled the length and breadth of the United States with Barnum & Bailey's circus, and meet Edward Love, the mathematician who discovered the mysterious waves that shake the earth. This luminous novel confirms Fortier as both a first-rate storyteller and as a master stylist.
About the author
DOMINIQUE FORTIER's On the Proper Use of Stars, her debut novel, was published in French in Quebec in 2008, to great acclaim and many prize nominations, winning the Prix Gens de mer du Festival Étonnants voyageurs (France). The English edition was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for translation, and it is being adapted for the screen by Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria). The original French edition of Wonder, Les larmes de saint Laurent, was a finalist for the Prix littéraire des collégiens. Dominique published her third novel, Le porte du ciel, in 2011. She lives in Montreal.
SHEILA FISCHMAN is the award-winning translator of some 150 contemporary novels from Quebec. In 2008 she was awarded the Molson Prize in the Arts. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a chevalier de l'Ordre national du Québec. She lives in Montreal.