MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 12760019C00001

English Summary/英文概要： With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 冬日将至，一个北部小社区Anishinaabe陷入了黑暗。被切断联系的人们变得被动而困惑。随着食物的减少，恐慌开始加剧。正在委员会和社区成员努力维持秩序的时候，来了一个意外的访客，试图逃离此地前往南部。不久之后，其他人也开始纷纷效仿。社区领导失去了对权力的控制，到访者们操纵着又累又饿的人最终控制了这个区域。紧张局势日益加剧，随着时间的推移，因疾病和绝望而死亡的人数也在增加。日益加剧的混乱让一群年轻的朋友和他们的家人感到沮丧，他们转向土地和Anishinaabe的传统，希望能借此帮助他们的社区再次繁荣起来。在一个不那么像领导人的名叫Evan Whitesky的人的带领下，他们在混乱中努力恢复秩序，并艰难地做出了一个重大的决定。融动作与寓言于一体的《雪之月》颠覆了我们的预期。灾难之中展现出了强大的韧性。当一个社会崩溃时，另一个社会就会重生。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“这部慢慢展开的惊悚小说讲述了一个有关生存的强大故事，读来令人窒息。”——《出版人周刊》

“非常适合在今夏阅读过Iain Reid的《敌人》并在寻找类似风格作品的读者。”——《环球邮报》

“小说营造的紧张氛围和逼真的场景令作者塑造的角色更显真实。”——《多伦多星报》

PRAISE FOR MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW

“The novel’s most significant achievement may be its mood. From mundane beginnings, the book increases its tension continuously across its 200 pages. It’s a cliché, but this book is hard to put down. Written with such guilelessness that it’s easy to read, and with such strong linearity and so little waste that it’s extremely absorbing, Moon of the Crusted Snow is a humble but welcome addition to apocalyptic literature.”— LOCUS

“This slow-burning thriller is also a powerful story of survival and will leave readers breathless.”— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Moon of the Crusted Snow asks how do we live in a good way during the collapse of the infrastructure that supports modern life? For Evan Whitesky, the answer lies in rekindling Ojibwe, the old ways, language and culture. For other characters, when the food runs out, all options are on the table, no matter how gruesome. As the tensions between those surviving the end of modern civilization build to a harrowing conclusion, Rice deftly weaves tender family moments with his brutal survival scenes in the unforgiving northern Ontario winter. Chilling in the best way possible.”— EDEN ROBINSON, author of Son of a Trickster

“The rising literary star has created an unsettling story about a snowbound northern Anishinaabe community, where a postapocalyptic reality—no power, dwindling food, chaos—slowly creeps its way through the band. A young man, Evan Whitesky, seeks to restore hope and order to his community by turning to the land—to Anishinaabe tradition. A stellar Indigenous thriller.”— THE GLOBE AND MAIL

“The creeping tension and vividly drawn landscapes make Waubgeshig Rice’s characters’ choices all the more real.”— TORONTO STAR “A warning shot fired for all who read this: what would you do if everything suddenly turned off? How long would you and your family and your community last? Terrifying, riveting, outstanding. This. Could. Happen. Waubgeshig Rice, you just scared the hell out of me with this book. Bravo, Sir! I am in awe of you and I am haunted by the tension you’ve unleashed here. Stock up: winter and strangers who are starving are on their way. Unforgettable. I loved it.”— RICHARD VAN CAMP, author of The Lesser Blessed

“Akin to Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, this book speculates a catastrophic, changing world while telling a riveting story that is as potent as anything in modern fiction. Rice gives us fully lived in, authentic characters that demand our attention and empathy. Because of that, there is hope in this long and bleak winter, and a surging power at the heart of this book that cannot be smothered.”— KEVIN HARDCASTLE, author of In the Cage

“Rice seamlessly injects Anishinaabe language into the dialogue and creates a beautiful rendering of the natural world… This title will appeal to fans of literary science fiction akin to Cormac McCarthy as well as to readers looking for a fresh voice in indigenous fiction.”— BOOKLIST

SNOW has sold well over 100,000 copies in all formats. (Booknet figures are notoriously low.)

Waub has cracked 10,000 copies in 5 weeks!

And he is still high on the CBC bestseller list, right after the Giller winner: https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-bestselling-canadian-books-of-the-week-1.7034800

Readers’ 2024 Picks shortlisted MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES, which alas did not win. See https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/readers-favorite-science-fiction-books-2024

About the Author/作者介绍： Waubgeshig Rice，作家兼记者，原籍瓦索辛第一民族。他的第一部短篇小说集《午夜血汗小屋》的灵感来自于他在安石那部社区长大的经历，并在2012年获得了独立出版商图书奖。2014年，他的处女作《遗产》出版。目前，他是萨德伯里CBC的一名多平台记者。2014年，他获得了Anishinabek的Debwewin奖，以表彰他在第一民族叙事方面的卓越贡献。他现在在萨德伯里和沃索辛两地生活。

Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, was inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community, and won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His debut novel, Legacy, followed in 2014 and was published in French in 2017. His latest novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was released in October 2018.

Waub got his first taste of journalism in 1996 as an exchange student in Germany, writing articles about being an Anishinaabe teen in a foreign country for newspapers back in Canada. He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program in 2002. He’s worked in a variety of news media since, reporting for CBC News for the bulk of his career. In 2014, he received the Anishinabek Nation’s Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling. He is best known as the host of Up North, CBC Radio’s afternoon show for northern Ontario.

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