Wonder

“Textured . . . elegant. . . . [Wonder] benefits from a limber translation by Sheila Fischman. . . . Fortier’s writing comes to us for the most part unfettered by metaphorical or terminological awkwardness. “On flat ground the tent was visible for kilometres around, like a glittering ocean liner on the plain or some monstrous star fallen to earth,” is about as vivid and unaccented a description as you’d ever want.” — National Post “The novel is divided into three parts, the first two seemingly disparate stories from around the turn of the 20th century . . . [the third] set in 21st-century Montreal. . . . Each part is beautiful and strong enough to stand on its own. . . . Wonder lies in the harmony of things, and Fortier’s novel strikes a wonderful chord.” –St. John Telegraph-Journal “A novel that can be enjoyed on any number of levels. You can search for what binds its three separate but subtly entwined sections; you can ponder its elliptical meditation on the age-old theme of art versus science; or you can simply savour it, sentence by sentence, for its finely exectured meld of worldly inquiry and dream-state mood.” –Edmonton Journal "Masterful. . . . An exquisite journey." — Voir magazine (Montreal)"A book to read and re-read.  A beautiful, beautiful, beautiful discovery." — Vous m'en lirez tant, Radio-Canada"A unique author [and] a rich novel, shot through with metaphor and poetry." — Le Devoir"A pleasure to read. The characters are rich, complex, strange, disconcerting. For those who passionately love literature, in the most noble sense of the word." — Anne-Josée Cameron, Téléjournal de Radio-Canada, Québec"A book to read for the beauty of the images, for the richness of the language, for the magic." — Michel Vezina, Radio-Canada"The writing is magnificent." — Andrée Poulin, Radio-Canada