8/13/2019 Last Indian Summer Press Release, Ekstasis

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Michels village is a prison where life is to be feared and betrayed, where duty and

hypocrisy are the fashion. His Native friend Kanak will help him escape, introducing him

to nature, freedom and forbidden games, teaching him to balance spiritual needs and

natural desires. But Michels relationship with Kanak shocks the village because it involves

an Indian. For his crime, the clan forbids Michel from seeing Kanak again and sentences

him to confinement and solitude. Worse yet: Michel will be sent off to school in the fall

to forget his friend and everything he learned from him. Refusing to be exiled to some

seminary to study Latin and learn amnesia, Michel invents new schemes to escape and be

with his friend or lets his imagination take him fishing with Kanak along the small river

of snakes

A post-colonial novel of protest, The Last Indian Summeris a bewitching and beautiful

summer nights dream, a hymn to passion, nature and freedom that condemns hypocrisy

and intolerance. Winner of Frances Prix Jean-Mac, it is Robert Lalondes second novel.

An actor, playwright and translator, Robert Lalonde is one of Quebecs leading novel-

ists. His previous novels published in translation by Ekstasis Editions include The Ogre

of Grand Remous, The Devil Incarnate, One Beautiful Day to Come, The Whole Wide

World and Seven Lakes Further North.

A writer, translator, researcher and communications specialist, Jean-Paul Murray hastranslated ten books. From to , Mr. Murray was managing editor of Cit libre,

a magazine founded by Pierre Trudeau, and was the magazines English translating

coordinator from to . Among his Cit libre translations are works authored by

Allan Cairns, Jacques Hbert, Mordecai Richler, F. R. Scott, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

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The Last Indian Summer

Robert Lalondetranslated byJean-Paul Murray