"The Weight of Snow" immerses the reader in a confined and oppressive winter world, where familiar points of reference gradually collapse. Through restrained and tense prose, the author leads us into cold, snow, and silence, portraying both the slow deterioration of human relationships and the persistence of human solidarity. This novel has earned the author numerous literary awards, including the France–Québec Prize, the Collegiate Literary Prize, the Ringuet Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Relève Montérégie Prize, the AIEQ High School Students’ Prize (Sweden, Estonia, Barcelona), the Irresistibles Book Club Prize of the Montreal Libraries, the Librarians’ Choice Prize, and the Libr’à Nous Francophone Novel Prize.