The Bigamist

The Bigamist tells the story of a woman torn between her husband and her lover—and about her transition to a new life in a city teeming with multiple identities. Tension mounts as she risks offending everyone in her conservative immigrant community if she chooses to leave her husband.

The comings and goings between these two men reveal couples torn not only by conflicting loves and loyalties, but also by the chasm separating their present in Montreal from the past they’ve left behind.

AUTHOR

Felicia Mihali

Born and educated in Romania, Felicia Mihali studied French, Mandarin and Dutch, and specialized in history and comparative literature at Université de Montréal. Since the publication of her highly acclaimed novel Le Pays du fromage in 2002, she has written seven books in French and three in English, including The Darling of Kandahar (LLP 2012), which was selected by Canada Reads as one of the best books of 2013. Founder and president of Éditions Hashtag, she lives in Montreal.

Reviews

This firstperson narrative traces the story of a married Romanian immigrant woman who soon discovers that she has been far more profoundly uprooted than she expected As she succumbs to the charms of another immigrant and dances between husband and lover her experience casts new light on matters of the heart in the throes of migration Julie Roy 5 October 2022

Food sex Romanian immigrants and Montreal Felicia Mihalis The Bigamist transforms the immigrant novel into a vigorous exploration of one writers complicated passion for two diametrically opposite men one of whom is her husband Determined to follow her hearts desire in a cosmopolitan city despite her communitys real or feigned moral outrage the narrator tells a tale of contradictory passions and traditional values conflicting with contemporary facts Deftly and cleanly translated by Linda Leith The Bigamist is brief bold funny and profound Kenneth Radu author of Net Worth