The book garnered so much attention that Roy returned to Manitoba to escape the publicity. Distributed in the United States, where it sold more than three-quarters of a million copies, the Literary Guild of America made The Tin Flute a featured book of the month in 1947. Published in English as The Tin Flute (1947), the book won the 1947 Governor General's Award for fiction as well as the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal. The original French version won Roy the prestigious Prix Femina in 1947. The novel caused many Quebecers to take a hard look at themselves and is regarded as the novel that helped lay the foundation for Quebec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. Roy's first novel, Bonheur d'occasion (1945) gave a starkly realistic portrait of the lives of people in Saint-Henri, a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal. It was originally published in French as Bonheur d'occasion (literally, 'secondhand happiness'), which represents the character's sense of rebound love in the novel. The novel was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture in 1983.

Imbued with Roy's brand of compassion and understanding, this story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love.Ī story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival during World War II, The Tin Flute won both the Governor General's Award and the Prix Femina of France. Tin Flute Gabrielle Roy Pdf is understandable in our digital library an online entrance to it is set as public suitably you can download it instantly. The Tin Flute (original French title Bonheur d'occasion, 'secondhand happiness'), Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Good condition first english edition of The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy printed in 1947.

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