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Pub Date Apr 15 2026 | Archive Date Apr 30 2026


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Description

Bruce Flynn has long been overwhelmed by his unruly and alarming fear of death. His wife, Pilar, distracts him by telling him drawn-out and convoluted stories, hiding him behind so many twists and turns that even Death itself will not be able to find him. During one such story, while the couple is on holiday in Macon, France, Bruce becomes entirely engrossed in the tabletop as he listens to Pilar. When he looks up, she’s gone.

Bruce looks for her, waits for her, interrogates the waiter, but she’s nowhere to be found. Her bags, her clothes, and her toiletries are all gone. Bruce asks himself if this could be an elaborate prank – it’s the kind of trick Pilar loves – and he begins to see clues in the story she told. The next morning Bruce sets out on a journey to follow these clues and to find Pilar.

Saudade is the sixth novel from award-winning writer Thomas Trofimuk. It is a sweeping literary thriller, moving across Europe and North America, from France to Italy, to Palm Springs, and Lake Louise, showing a world on the cusp of a global pandemic. It is a love story, a story of stories, of loss, and of discovery.

Bruce Flynn has long been overwhelmed by his unruly and alarming fear of death. His wife, Pilar, distracts him by telling him drawn-out and convoluted stories, hiding him behind so many twists and...


A Note From the Publisher

-Sixth novel from a well published and award-winning novelist
-Author has previously won the George Bugnet Novel of the Year Award and the City of Edmonton Book Prize
-For readers of literary fiction and literary thrillers
-For those who love stories within stories

-Sixth novel from a well published and award-winning novelist
-Author has previously won the George Bugnet Novel of the Year Award and the City of Edmonton Book Prize
-For readers of literary...


Advance Praise

“Thomas Trofimuk sheep-hooks readers into reality bending puzzles of Bruce Flynn’s missing wife, Pilar. As time collapses geographies, breathless multi-storied mysteries, questions, and hope collide. Characters, like Death, stalk and warp certainty of what we can survive and know about our own mortal fears, lost possibilities, longing, and love.” —Dr. Leah Fowler, author of Reading Canada

“A brilliantly crafted saga with intersecting , sometimes colliding narratives of yearning, mission, travel. Always poignant, often funny, never predictable. Full of self-contradictory moments that seem to make sense. Frequent appearances by a mystery woman in crimson stilettos. Another Trofimuk original.”—Rona Altrows, award-winning author of At This Juncture

"Death plays the piano. Breathtaking and brilliant. We need more novels like this: complex, ambitious tales that are both intimate and wholly original, and unafraid to tackle the Big Questions of life—and death. This is a tale of mirages and marriage, of lives caught between mirrors, of stories nested within stories, and a mystery at its core. A novel to savour."—Will Ferguson, Giller Prize-winning author of 419

“Thomas Trofimuk sheep-hooks readers into reality bending puzzles of Bruce Flynn’s missing wife, Pilar. As time collapses geographies, breathless multi-storied mysteries, questions, and hope...


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Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781774391327
PRICE CA$23.95 (CAD)
PAGES 360

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