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Sep 17, 2016 · The Break is an emotional, powerful and intense literary thriller about the strength and love that connects a family of women and friends together, while dealing with a violent act. The Break refers to a field between two rolls of houses but also refers to broken relationships.
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- Paperback
The Break: Created by Stéphane Bergmans, Benjamin d'Aoust, Matthieu Donck. With Yoann Blanc, Jasmina Douieb, Lara Hubinont, Tom Audenaert. Crime series kick-started by the finding of a young man's body.
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- 2019-02-09
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
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- Tough Inception to Positive Reception
- Looking Back
- Stella's Shame
- Bearing Witness
- Reflections on Resilience
"It took me forever and ever to write. I didn't know what I was doing. I'm still astounded by this and the reception that it received. It was a very hard book to write — I acknowledge that it's also in many ways a hard book to read. I crammed in as much love and hope as I could. "But it was hard to get out into the world. So I've always been surpri...
"This book came about many, many years ago in a number of different ways. But part of it — maybe the most important part — was I was living in a house very similar to Stella in the book, and did overlook 'The Break.' It was a very unusual place; a very sturdily, staunchly working class kind of area. I was a young mum at the time. I had lived in the...
"I think Stella [was the character that] came first. When it comes to that 'fight or flight or freeze,' I'm definitely a freezer. And just that act of not being able to do anything, as debilitating as that is spiritually, but also for the community, it's devastating on a communal level because you're not able to help. "I was thinking of what I woul...
"To bear witness is about holding, you know? We often do this with stories — we hold stories, like knowledge, on a different plane. Knowledge holders hold that knowledge. I always love that distinction between knowledge-keeper and knowledge-holder. We're holding it — we're just keeping it safe. You're not keeping it from people. You're holding it i...
"'Resilience' is not my least favourite word, but it's one of those words I think too often gets thrown around and loses power. You know, I say the same thing about the word 'reconciliation.' "Their humanity is like my humanity. It's not a complete word — it's not a complete telling of what it is. I think that we are all resilient in different ways...
Feb 2, 2017 · The Break was nominated for multiple awards, including the Governor General's Literary Awards, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and won three awards at the 2017 Manitoba Book Awards.
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The Break ( French: La Trêve, "The Truce") is a French-language Belgian crime drama television series, produced by Anthony Rey and directed by Matthieu Donck. [2] It debuted on RTBF 's La Une on 21 February 2016, on France 2 on 29 August 2016, and on Netflix in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada on 21 December 2016.
Sep 16, 2016 · The Break (House of Anansi) won several awards including the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. Her National Film Board documentary, this river won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia.
The Break is unforgettable. ― Lee Maracle, author of Celia’s Song The lives of the girls and women in The Break are not easy, but their voices — complex, urgent, and unsparing — lay bare what it means to survive, not only once, but multiple times, against the forces of private and national histories. Katherena Vermette is a tremendously ...
- Katherena Vermette
