Children of the Black Sabbath
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AuthorAnne Hébert
Original titleLes Enfants du sabbat
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CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
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PublisherBoréal compact
Publication date
September 2006
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ISBN2-89052-699-2


Children of the Black Sabbath (original French title: Les Enfants du sabbat) is a 1975 novel by Anne Hébert.

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During World War II, a nun has terrifying visions that disrupt a Roman Catholic convent in Quebec.

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Sister Julie of the Trinity, a nun in a convent in Quebec, has been seeing visions of a dysfunctional family involved with mysterious pagan rituals. The visions are initially attributed to illness or Julie's own imagination, but later it is revealed that she is reliving scenes from her own violence-filled childhood.

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