The caravan of angels
Flammarion Quebec
256 pages
After Secret gardens full of nettlesthe former model and host Dominique Bertrand recounts a December 23 between laughter and tears in this new novel. As the city is paralyzed by a storm, colorful characters find themselves getting to know each other in a department store as time drags on.
It’s time I tell you
Heliotrope
126 pages
This is a new edition of the essay by David Chariandy, to whom we owe the excellent novel Besides. Mélikah Abdelmoumen signs the preface to this book where the Ontario writer speaks to his 13-year-old daughter to tell her the story of her ancestors, the childhood of her parents in Trinidad and Tobago as well as their reality of immigrants to Toronto.
The gardens of Torcello
South Acts
404 pages
Chrystine Brouillet described this novel as “pure reading joy” in her column on the show There will always be culturequite recently. The author of Breaking waves sets this story on a small island in the Venetian lagoon, where a young woman sets out to rebuild herself in an enchanting setting.
Of water and solitude
Hammock
128 pages
A man, disappointed by humanity, decides to stay at home while the city is gradually flooded. From his balcony, he observes this catastrophe with ambivalent feelings. Until this final moment, when the city is about to be swallowed up and he must make a choice. The author, who lives in Quebec, works in visual arts.
Marriage in absentia
Speaking
211 pages
This is a book that comes to us with the qualifier “unusual” and which is said to be at the crossroads of an investigative novel, a political thriller and a romantic comedy. The author, originally from Cameroon, is a journalist at Radio-Canada in Ontario, and had fun imagining an incredible story where two people accidentally find themselves involved in a matter of American political and military secrecy.
Why the Kevins don’t become doctors
Editions of the Journal
240 pages
This is a – very serious – work on “societal phenomena” that the author (who is a sociologist) explains while relying on statistics. Among other things, it investigates the fact that people named Kevin are less likely to study medicine than others, as its title says. But it also looks at the fact that suicide rates have seen a dramatic drop during the pandemic or that religious activities enjoy great popularity among prison inmates. A reading that is already getting people talking.