Nancy Huston

THE MARK OF THE ANGEL
Pub: Steerforth, Fall 1999. Vintage, Fall 2000. Originally published by Actes Sud in Paris.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Description: The fourth novel in English by the winner of Canada's Governer General Award. Nominated for the Goncourt in Paris. Winner of Elle's Prix de Lectrice fiction prize. A love story set in the aftermath of World War II. Two exiles in Paris, a young German woman who suffered the unspeakable cruelties of the Russian occupation and a Hungarian Jew in a doomed love affair.

SLOW EMERGENCIES
Pub: Steerforth, 2001. Vintage 2002.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Originally published in Canada, this is a powerful novel about a dancer who leaves her husband and two children to pursue an international career. The fallout for the family and the mother herself, are explored in the harsh light of day.
Film option with Andrew Long Productions.

DOLCE AGONIA
Pub: Steerforth U.S., McArthur & Co. Canada 2001
Genre: Literary Fiction
Description: A group of academics and their partners are snowed in over a Thanksgiving weekend in a university town. As their relationships play out the novel becomes a moving domestic comedy with a cast of characters that are warmly depicted with all their strengths and flaws revealed.

Nancy Huston: PLAINSONG
Pub: Steerforth U.S., McArthur & Co. Canada 1993
Genre: Literary Fiction
Description: Four generations of one family and a prairie town shaped by the sweeping forces of change are the focus of this powerful novel about the inescapable bonds of family and place.

Rosalie Siegel controls American and English language Canadian rights for Nancy Huston. La Nouvelle Agence in Paris controls French and all translation rights.

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