{"product_id":"when-water-became-blue-9781552455098","title":"When Water Became Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnie Ernaux meets Annie Dillard in this sultry story of a woman's obsession with a painter -- and a river. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman is on an artists' retreat on an island in the St. Lawrence Seaway, taking time away from her partner and her daughter to write. There she encounters a painter who spends his days with his easel set up on the shore trying to capture the blue of the water. They are drawn to each other, and their desire builds, through conversations about art and the colour blue, into a passionate extramarital affair, both deep and fleeting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSavage in its beauty, this new work from Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a novel of resilience and longing, staking out the territory of female desire, exploring how it's been regarded through the ages and how it's reflected in art and nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the bestselling \u003ci\u003eSuzanne\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, this latest offering in a series of novels about women by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette captures the power and beauty of desire set against the power and beauty of nature. An accomplished filmmaker, Barbeau-Lavalette writes with a visual flair, embodying both the calm and the turbulence of the river that runs through the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1972, and named an Artist for Peace in 2012, \u003cb\u003e Anaïs Barbeau Lavalette\u003c\/b\u003e has directed several award-winning documentary features. She also directed two fiction features: \u003ci\u003eLe Ring\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eInch'allah\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), which received the Fipresci Prize in Berlin. She is the author of the travelogue Embrasser Yasser Arafat (2011) and the novel \u003ci\u003eJe voudrais qu'on m'efface\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eNeighbourhood Watch\u003c\/i\u003e) and the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eLe femme qui fuit\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eSuzanne\u003c\/i\u003e), winner of the Prix des libraires du Quebec, Prix France-Quebec, Prix de la Ville de Montreal, and shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and Canada Reads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRhonda Mullins\u003c\/b\u003e is a Montreal-based translator who has translated many books from French into English, including Jocelyne Saucier's \u003ci\u003eAnd Miles To Go Before I Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, Gregoire Courtois' \u003ci\u003eThe Laws of the Skies\u003c\/i\u003e, Dominique Fortier's \u003ci\u003ePaper Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, and Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's \u003ci\u003eSuzanne\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a seven-time finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation, winning the award in 2015 for her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's \u003ci\u003eTwenty-One Cardinals\u003c\/i\u003e. Novels she has translated were contenders for CBC Canada Reads in 2015 and 2019 and one was a finalist for the 2018 Best Translated Book Award. Mullins was the inaugural literary translator in residence at Concordia University in 2018. She has been a mentor to emerging translators in the Banff International Literary Translation Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661298794770,"sku":"9781552455098","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18b29bd6-ec51-42cb-839d-c6908472b402.jpg?v=1760440075","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/when-water-became-blue-9781552455098","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}