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A Good Death

By: Gil Courtemanche

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On Christmas Eve, a family has gathered around the table for the obligatory dinner. The father, once an imposing figure who terrorized his children, has suddenly fallen prey to Parkinson’s. Yesterday’s tyrant is now trapped inside a disintegrating body. André, the eldest child, is nearing 60. He has never loved the father who lied too much, abused too much, manipulated too much. But still, this holiday week, André cannot help but be moved. How should he behave toward a parent to whom all pleasures are forbidden? Should he struggle to prolong the old man’s life, or help him end it? Around the dinner table, opinions are divided. At once intimate and universal, A Good Death is a deeply moving voyage into the essence of humanity. In it, Gil Courtemanche once again asks readers to confront the question that lay at the heart of his first novel: Why live? Why die?

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1926706870

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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

By: Gil Courtemanche

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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

By: Gil Courtemanche

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda’s genocide. All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them–already devastated by AIDS–erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt’s efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover’s shocking fate.

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Vintage

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0307424529

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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

By: Gil Courtemanche

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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

By: Gil Courtemanche

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A Good Death

By: Gil Courtemanche

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A Good Death

By: Gil Courtemanche

Following the worldwide success of A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, Gil Courtemanche returns with a short, intimate, powerful second novel. A Good Death describes the everyday tragedy, horror, cowardice and love that lie at the heart of one family. On Christmas Eve, a family has gathered for the obligatory dinner. The father, only yesterday an imposing figure who terrorized his children, has suddenly fallen prey to Parkinson's and finds himself trapped inside a disintegrating body. Andre, the eldest child, is approaching sixty. He has never loved his father, yet can't help but be moved as he witnesses his decline. How should we behave towards a parent to whom all pleasures are forbidden? Sould we struggle to prolong his life, or help him to end it? Around the dinner table, opinions are divided. Once more, Gil Courtemanche takes us on a deeply moving voyage into the essence of our humanity.

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Douglas & McIntyre

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1553652150

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The World, The Lizard and Me

By: Gil Courtemanche

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The World, The Lizard and Me

By: Gil Courtemanche

A voice that evokes humanity in all its depth and breadth, where the executioner and victim are brother and sister, where death is a daily occurrence. A voice I implore you to listen to... Through a felicitous mix of reportage and fiction, Courtemanche has powerfully portrayed a lucid character deeply engaged in a humanist quest.' – Le Journal de Montréal The World, the Lizard and Me is a novel of testament to the plight of children caught up in the civil wars of Central Africa. First published in 2009, we are proud to be publishing the first English translation of this enthralling story. The World, the Lizard and Me follows the life of Claude Tremblay who, from the age of eleven has sought justice for thousands of voiceless victims. Now an investigator at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, he is pursuing Thomas Kabanga, a warlord charged with creating child soldiers in the Congo. Defeated in court by a legal technicality, Claude abandons his usual professional detachment and decides to act alone. He finds himself in the growing chaos of the mining town of Bunia, searching for more evidence and eventually encountering Kabanga. Pitched from distant observation into the grim reality of an African power struggle, he is confronted by a form of justice different from any he has experienced before. He also encounters at first hand the results of the inhumanity of the lives of child soldiers, and is forced to reconsider the nature of love and the notion of normality. Gil Courtemanche draws on his own experiences to write a novel of gripping immediacy. His Africa is a place unknown to many in the West, capable of encompassing extremes of humanity and brutality. The World, the Lizard and Me reveals and questions the motives of criminals and the effects and consequences of childhood. It is an enthralling story of war, work, obsession and the search for personal identity.

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Seren

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1781722722

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Le défi de l'imagination

comment résoudre les problèmes de l'avenir?

By: Thomas Homer-Dixon,Gil Courtemanche

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Le défi de l'imagination

comment résoudre les problèmes de l'avenir?

By: Thomas Homer-Dixon,Gil Courtemanche

Notre monde est-il devenu trop complexe et trop instable pour que nous puissions exercer sur lui quelque emprise que ce soit ? Les défis qui se posent à nous - que ce soient le réchauffement du climat, les épidémies de sida et de tuberculose, les crises financières - se recoupent et se conjuguent au point que nous ne sommes plus en mesure de comprendre ce qui nous arrive. En outre, nous entretenons l'affreux doute que " les experts " n'en savent pas beaucoup plus long que nous. Voilà ce que Thomas Homer-Dixon appelle le déficit de l'imagination, ce fossé qui sépare notre besoin d'imagination - imagination qui nous permettrait de trouver des solutions à ces problèmes aussi complexes que cruciaux - et notre capacité à stimuler cette imagination. L'auteur nous montre que si, dans notre univers complexe, les pays pauvres sont particulièrement vulnérables à ce phénomène, les pays riches sont également menacés par le déficit de l'intelligence. A mesure que le phénomène s'amplifie, on assiste à une augmentation de la désintégration politique et à une multiplication des conflits violents, situation qui peut influencer le cours de nos vies de façon subtile et inattendue. Par une argumentation audacieuse, Homer-Dixon formule de façon saisissante les problèmes qui sont les nôtres aujourd'hui et propose des pistes de solutions, applicables aussi bien à la sphère privée qu'au monde des affaires.

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[Montréal] : Boréal

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2764601751

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A Good Death

A Good Death

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

A Good Death

A Good Death

The World, The Lizard and Me

The World, The Lizard and Me

Le défi de l'imagination

Le défi de l'imagination

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