Happiness Has a Slippery Tail Book Launch

Thu Nov 20 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-05:00

2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9 | Montreal

Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore
Publisher/HostLibrairie Paragraphe Bookstore
Happiness Has a Slippery Tail Book Launch
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๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ž ๐๐š๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐ž ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ž and the ๐”๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ž๐ญ๐ญ๐š๐ฐ๐š ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ present a book launch for ๐‘ฏ๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’Š๐’๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐‘ฏ๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚ ๐‘บ๐’๐’Š๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’Š๐’ by ๐€๐›๐ฅ๐š ๐…๐š๐ซ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ translated by ๐‰๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐–๐ž๐ข๐ฌ๐ณ ๐–๐จ๐จ๐๐ฌ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก.
Join us as translator ๐‰๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐–๐ž๐ข๐ฌ๐ณ ๐–๐จ๐จ๐๐ฌ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก discusses and signs copies of ๐‘ฏ๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’Š๐’๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐‘ฏ๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚ ๐‘บ๐’๐’Š๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’Š๐’ by ๐€๐›๐ฅ๐š ๐…๐š๐ซ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐.
Admission is free.
๐€๐๐Ž๐”๐“ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐๐Ž๐Ž๐Š:
This novel paints the portrait of a Lebanese family that has settled in Montreal. The central figure is Dounia, a 75-year-old mother and grandmother. Hers is a story of lossโ€”she first leaves her own village to live in her husbandโ€™s hometown, and then is wrenched from her homeland, not once but twice, to live in a strange land whose language and customs are foreign to her.
Dounia can neither read nor write, and she speaks only Arabic. Illiterate yet perceptive, nourished by Lebanese proverbs and pearls of wisdom, she has a unique and captivating voice. She struggles, yes, but manages to achieve fulfilment in her new world: โ€œMy home is where my grandchildren are, clinging to my neck, calling me Sitto Dounia [โ€ฆ] in my language. I want to die where my children and my grandchildren live.โ€
๐€๐๐Ž๐”๐“ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐“๐‘๐€๐๐’๐‹๐€๐“๐Ž๐‘:
Judith Woodsworth is a translator and Distinguished Professor Emerita at Concordia University. A specialist in translation history and theory, she has published Translators through History (with Jean Delisle), the monograph Telling the Story of Translation: Writers Who Translate, and the edited volumes The Fictions of Translation and Translation and the Global City: Bridges and Gateways. She has translated novels by Pierre Nepveu, Abla Farhoud, and Felicia Mihali, and was the receipient of the 2022 Governor Generalโ€™s literary award for French-English translation for History of the Jews in Quebec by Pierre Anctil. She was founding president of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies. Woodsworth holds a PhD in French literature from McGill University.
๐€๐๐Ž๐”๐“ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐€๐”๐“๐‡๐Ž๐‘:
Born in Lebanon in 1945, Abla Farhoud immigrated to Canada in 1951. She later moved back to Lebanon and spent some time in France. She studied theatre at the Universitรฉ du Quรฉbec ร  Montrรฉal and wrote several plays. In 1998, she published her first novel, Le bonheur a la queue glissante, for which she was awarded the Prix France-Quรฉbec โ€“ Philippe Rossillon. A number of acclaimed novels followed.
Abla Farhoud passed away in 2021. She is survived by her childrenโ€”musician Mathieu Farhoud-Dionne, also known as Chafiik, and singer-songwriter Alecka Farhoud.

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