If You Hear Me

In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand but despite their devoted efforts, there's no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world David now inhabits.

A moving story of love and mourning, elegantly translated by Lazer Lederhendler,If You Hear Measks what it means to be alive and how we learn to accept the unacceptable.(From Biblioasis)

If You Hear Me won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for translation.

PascaleQuivigeris a writer from Quebec who nowlives in the U.K. Her novelLe Cercle parfaitwon the Governor General's Literary Award for French-language fiction, while the English translation of the novel (titledThe Perfect Circle) was a finalist for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Lazer Lederhendleris a translator and academic from Montreal. He has been previously nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English translation several times.He won the prize in 2008 for his translation ofNikolskiby Nicolas Dicknerand again in 2016 for his translation ofThe Party Wallby Catherine Leroux.

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