Canadian-born author Nancy Huston may have won the Prix Femina in France for her novel Lignes de faille, but she’s apparently having trouble getting it published in English. The Globe and Mail reports that the political content of Huston’s latest book has hit some snags with her New York publisher and agent; the first section of the novel is about a young American boy who’s attracted to images of Abu Ghraib torture.

Meanwhile, Kim McArthur of McArthur & Company, Huston’s Canadian publisher, is hoping it all works out. McArthur tells the Globe that Huston “has promised us some slight revisions” but that no contract has been signed and “it’s all just sort of very dicey.”

And through it all, at least Huston is maintaining perspective. As the Globe reports, in a September interview with La Presse in Montreal, she said, “contemporary America is reproducing the worst traits of Nazi Germany. I believe we are in a pretotalitarian state.”

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