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Autumnal equinox. The End of the World sails on the Aegean Sea. Aboard is Marjolaine, a cook who recently lost her job at a greasy spoon. She rubs shoulders with chess players, a bookseller, a retired professor, a romance novelist, a blue-haired singer ... Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet, people play cards, while others celebrate, read, dream or cry, and still others die. All these lives intersect, meet up again, disappear, and above all tell us that there is not only one truth. In The End of the World is Elsewhere, volume four of her Fragments of the World tetralogy, Hlne Rioux creates an intricate and complex novel filled with topical issues and references to history and literature.

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Hlne Rioux has published poetry, news articles, short stories, translations, and seven novels. She received the Prix France-Qubec and the Prix ringuet de l'Acadmie des Lettres du Qubec in 2008 for Mercredi soir au Bout du monde (translated as Wednesday Night at the End of the World), the Grand Prix littraire du Journal de Montral, and the Prix de la Socit des Ecrivains canadiens for Chambre avec baignoire in 1992. She has been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award five times. Her novels have been translated into English, Spanish, and Bulgarian. She has translated books into French by Elizabeth Hay, Yann Martel, Jeffrey Moore and Johanna Skibsrud. She lives in Montreal, Quebec. Jonathan Kaplansky won a French Voices Award to translate Annie Ernaux's Things Seen (La vie extrieure). He has translated works by Hlne Rioux, Hlne Dorion, Simon Brault, and Lise Tremblay. He has sat on the jury for the English-translation category of the Governor General's Literary Awards and the John Glassco Prize.

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