A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo. In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll...
Québec--Montréal
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Author:Chacour, ÉricSummary: - Author:Chacour, ÉricSummary:
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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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:Nasrallah, DimitriSummary:
Beyrouth, 1984. Muna embrasse Halim pour la dernière fois, avant qu'il ne s'évapore dans un brouillard de poussière soulevé par les combats de rue. Deux ans plus tard, elle et son fils Omar, âgé de huit ans, posent leurs valises...
- Author:Murray, MorganSummary:
In late 2008, as the world's economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario - not to be confused with Milton, Ontario - leaves his parents' basement in Middle-of-...
- Author:Zorn, AliceSummary:
A novel about Mina, a woman in Montreal who has Down Syndrome. Mina lives alone, with the support of her older brother Bruno, who lives nearby; in her spare time, Mina embroiders. One day in the park, Mina meets Iris, a designer who...
- Author:Silcoff, MireilleSummary:
A dazzling debut collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff. Inspired by the real life medical struggles of the author, this stunning debut collection opens with a gripping portrait...
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Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:What happens when a 56-year-old fiction writer decides to ditch it all and attend professional pastry chef school for a year? In writing that brings to mind the work of journalist/chef Michael Ruhlman, Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal...
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Author:Segura, MauricioSummary:In the Cote-de-Negre area of Montreal, the first stop for many new immigrants, live people of more than 100 nationalities, Marcelo, the sensitive son of Chilean refugees, and Cleo, a shy boy from Haiti, find friendship on the track,...
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