A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo. As a boy in 1960s Cairo, Tarek knows that his entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his...
Québec--Montréal
- Author:Chacour, ÉricSummary:
- Author:Bergeron, ChrisSummary:
A genre-bending speculative look at a dark future, Valid shares the story of one trans woman leading a revolution. This is a mutiny. If our mutiny is to succeed, I must name things well, without diversion. Lacking this, you will not...
- Author:Sibum, NormSummary:
A place: the Traymore Rooms, downtown Montreal, an old walk-up. Those who live there and drink at the nearby caf' form the heart of Traymorean society. Their number includes: Eggy, red-faced, West Virginian, a veteran of Korea; Eleanor...
- Author:Bah, ValérieSummary:
An exhausted security guard dreams of home. A sculptor and a pothead have great sex - in the shadow of wax ex-lovers. A diversity workshop devolves into a familiar nightmare. Throughout this deadpan collection, determined, damned, and...
- Author:TrevanianSummary:
The Main is Montreal’s teeming underworld, where the dark streets echo with cries in a dozen languages, with the quick footsteps of thieves and the whispers of prostitutes. It is a world where violence and brutality are a way of life....
- Author:Leith, LindaSummary:
Vivid stories from a Canadian literary icon, who shares a life spread across continents and immersed in books. It’s the life that many dream of: education in some of Europe’s most beautiful cities before becoming a novelist, essayist,...
- Author:Kindellan-Sheehan, SheilaSummary:
Sheila Kindellan-Sheehan is the author of ten mystery novels, most recently In the Shadows (Véhicule, 2017). Mystery taking place in Montreal.
- Author:Vincent, Julie, Hazelton, Hugh, Alfonso, JavierSummary:
Francisco will forever be haunted by the sight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets. He’ll remember that sight as he flees the political uprising in Uruguay that night. He’ll remember...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at...
- Author:Dupuis-Morency, ClaraSummary:
Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day...
- Author:Dupont, ÉricSummary:
Rosa Ost grows up in Notre-Dame-du-Cachalot, a tiny village at the end of the world, where two industries are king: paper and Boredom. The only daughter of Terese Ost (a fair-to-middling trade unionist and a first-rate Scrabble player...
- Author:Chau Bradley, H. FelixSummary:
A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships—with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-...
- Author:Raymond Bock, MaximeSummary:
Born during the Great Depression, Jean-Claude Morel is an Everyman, an ordinary Montreal construction worker who has built the city with his own hands, digging its metro, creating islands, and weaving expressways through the downtown...
- Author:Ariane GélinasSummary:
Un labyrinthe fluctuant au cœur de Montréal, des enfants mort-nés qui ensemencent un jardin, des êtres amphibies qui survivent dans un château médiéval... L'appel du désert près des oasis de Meira, le spectre d'une...
- Author:Cotton, Marie-EveSummary:
Une nuit de décembre, Maude Fournier a commis le crime le plus terrible qui soit, un acte que la société ne semble pouvoir envisager qu'en voyant en ceux qui s'en rendent coupables des monstres ou des fous. Le docteur Gomez...
- Author:Larue, StéphaneSummary:
Nous sommes à Montréal au début de l'hiver 2002. Le narrateur n'a pas vingt ans. Il aime Lovecraft, le métal, les comic books et la science-fiction. Étudiant en graphisme, il dessine depuis toujours et veut devenir...
- Author:Dawson, CarolineSummary:
Valparaíso, décembre 1986, tremblement de terre entre les quatre murs d'une maison. Un homme et une femme annoncent à leurs enfants qu'il faut tout laisser derrière et fuir le Chili de Pinochet. C'est Noël, la petite...
- Author:Ménard, DavidSummary:
Marie-Anne Houde, la souillon de Sainte-Sophie, attend la mort dans sa « chambre de mourante » à Montréal, et écrit à Télesphore, son vieil amour qui n’a pas toujours partagé ses sentiments. À l’aide d’une trame temporelle double...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious...
- Author:Robitaille, DenisSummary:
En 1979, à Montréal, Anne se consacre avec ardeur à la promotion des artistes les plus novateurs. Elle se lie d'amitié avec Jean Meunier, un courtier en art sur le déclin, qui devient pour elle un mentor généreux et...
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