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Translated by David Homel.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMarteau writes with \u201crevelations that cloak the elemental mysteries of life in delightfully fresh mythic garb.\u201d \u2014Books in Canada<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[311,576],"product_tag":[218,404],"class_list":["post-3141","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-fiction","product_cat-transaltions","product_tag-218","product_tag-french-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}