Prix Méditerranée (2013)
Prix des libraires du Québec Nominee for Lauréats québécois (2013)
Prix du deuxième roman (2013)
Premi Llibreter de narrativa for Altres literatures (2014)
Prix de l’Algue d’Or for Prix du Jury (2013)
Wahhch Debch discovers the body of his wife, brutally raped and murdered, in the living room of his home. Driven by grief, he sets out to hunt down the killer: he needs to see his face, not for revenge, but for survival. During his odyssey across America, alone and without hope, brutal memories hidden in the folds of his childhood gradually awaken. To evoke the monstrous side of human beings, Wajdi Mouawad silences man and gives voice to animals: it is they who narrate the chilling search for the true beast.
Anima takes us down an unknown path to a territory between thriller, western, and Greek tragedy, an inhospitable place of fierce violence that we nevertheless do not want to leave and are unable to forget when we have finished the book: that new space, threatening and at the same time redemptive, of great literature.
Born in Lebanon in 1968, playwright Wajdi Mouawad fled to France between the ages of ten and fifteen, before living in Quebec until the 2000. He is one of the most outstanding playwrights and authors in today’s francophone literary scene. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and his plays staged in all five continents.
Author published in: Canadian French (Leméac), English (World – Talonbooks), European French (Actes Sud), Italian (Fazi), Spanish (Seix Barral), Catalan (Periscopi), Greek (Twenty-First Editions), Japanese (Kawade Shobo Shinsha), Albanian (Ombra GVG), German (DTV*)
