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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A heartbreaking tale of impossible love in late-twentieth century Egypt.Cairo, 1980s. Tarek's whole life is laid out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family medical practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is well respected in society. When he opens a clinic in a disadvantaged area of the city, he meets Ali, a young man who is free from the societal pressures that govern Tarek's life. This chance encounter will change everything, throwing Tarek's marriage, career and his entire existence into question.From bustling Cairo to the harsh winters of Montreal, from the reign of Nasser to the dawn of a new century, Tarek wanders and reminisces. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, someone is compiling the chapters of his story . . . Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Stand By Me meets Knausgaard: an explosive 1980s coming-of-age story in a hardscrabble Quebec mining town.Thetford Mines, an asbestos-mining town in Quebec, summer 1986. Nine-year-old Steve Dubois and ten-year-old Poulie revel in the joys of friendship, roaming free on their BMXs, building forts, reading Tintins, filling their disaster scrapbook, sharing escapades on the high slag heaps and landscapes that are part forest, part lunar. The two inseparable friends spend their days in idleness and innocence. But 1986 is a year rife with tragedy, from the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion to one closer to home, one that will rock Thetford Mines, and Steve, to the core. Five years later, we find Steve consumed by his obsession: to recreate his vanished paradise.Wielding precise and sensual language, Sebastien Dulude tells the story of a fragile and volatile youth in a working-class dream that is losing momentum. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Theodores world is shrinking. He cares for his grandfather, Emeril, whose dementia is increasingly tethered to a cryptic wartime past. Outside, a record-breaking heatwave has turned Quebec into a pressure cooker of domestic rage and inexplicable public violence. In the shadow of this heat dome, the horseflies have arrived: large, predatory, and unnervingly persistent. To understand the infection taking hold of the province, Theodore must accompany Emeril back to Grosse Ile, a secret military base where, in 1942, a young entomologist was conscripted to develop the perfect biological carrier. Moving between the experimental horrors of the 1940s and a contemporary climate in crisis, Mireille Gagnes novel is a visceral exploration of the predatory relationship between human violence and the natural world. Horsefly is a work of contemporary Quebecois fiction exploring the boundaries between the human body and the natural world. Blending atmospheric nature writing with speculative tension, Mireille Gagne's novel addresses survival, transformation and environmental collapse. Translated into English by Pablo Strauss. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A chilling tale about what happens when we mess with nature.In 1942, a young entomologist, Thomas, is sent to a remote island to work on biological weapons for the Allied military. The scientists live like prisoners while they produce anthrax and look for the perfect virus carrier among the islands many insects.Sixty years later, in the same region of Quebec, a heat wave unleashes swarms of horseflies while humans fall prey to strange flights of rage. Theodore is living a simple life, working double shifts and drinking to forget, when a horsefly bite stirs him from his apathy. He impulsively kidnaps his grandfather, whose dementia has him living in the past on Grosse Ile. The horseflies, meanwhile, know a few secretsLoosely based on historical fact, Horsefly is a terrifying tale about the ways in which we try to dominate nature, and how nature will, inevitably, wreak retribution upon us. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…