The hockey sweater and other stories / Roch Carrier ; translated by Sheila Fischman.

The nun who returned to Ireland --The shoemaker -- Idiot death -- The machine for detecting everything that's American -- The day I became an apostate -- The month of the dead -- Son of a smaller hero -- Pierrette's bump -- When the taxes split the roof -- The hockey sweater -- Foxes need fresh water -- A great hunter -- What language do bears speak? -- Industry in our village -- Perhaps the trees do travel -- The good people and the bad people -- Do medals float on the ocean? -- Grandfather's fear -- The sorceror -- A secret lost in winter.

These funny, nostalgic stories of growing up in a Quebec village enchanted audiences across Canada when Carrier read them on CBC radio and television. Now collected into a book for the first time, The Hockey Sweater and other stories reveals Carrier at the top of his incomparable form: a young Quebec boy, mad for the Canadiens, is sent a Toronto Maple Leaves sweater by mistake; an Irish nun, stranded among the Québécois, tries to walk back home to the Emerald Isle; an English-Canadian animal trainer finds himself in the ring with a bear who is not bilingual; the bravest man in the village hides his secret weakness: a terror of Protestants. With twenty stories in all, this book offers a rich gallery of Carrier eccentrics, as well as shrewed insights into English/French tensions in Quebec, racial attitudes, the dominance of the Catholic Church, and the vagaries of Dupless politics. A book for the young at heart, the Hockey Sweater set to be one of the most popular books by the author of La Guerre, Yes Sir!, They Won't Demolish Me! and The Garden of Delights. -- From back cover

English translation of: Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune.