The Old Man and the Child

Gabrielle Roy

La Montagne Secrète · Narrated by Jalianne Li

About this audiobook

Christine lives in a small windswept prairie city where time moves slowly. One morning, at the height of a hot, dry summer, she befriends an old man who lives just a few streets over. As their unlikely friendship grows, they hatch a plan to visit Lake Winnipeg, a vast inland ocean the old man longs to see again and the young girl can only imagine.

About the author

Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983) is one of the most prominent figures in French Canadian literature, and considered one of the great contemporary writers on the human condition. She is the first Canadian to win France’s Prix Femina, for the debut novel Bonheur d’occasion. The translation (The Tin Flute) won the Governor-General’s Award in 1947. She was awarded a Canada Council Medal in 1968.

Jalianne Li is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in dance and has also delved into theatre and circus and has performed with Satellite Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Connection Dance Works, Circus Stella, Danse en l’air and the Coopérative Air au Cube. Of mixed Chinese and Scottish descent, she is based in Moncton.