Thunder and light

"Originally published in 2001, Thunder and Light is the second volume in Marie-Claire Blais's prize-winning Soifs series, hailed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction. Powered by its characters' gripping exploration of the world's dark corners, the novel is a teeming microcosm in which boundaries collapse and the extremes and contradictions that animate our times are reconciled. Blais locks us directly into the consciousnes...