Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa av Andre Alexis

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These eight stories reveal a world that’s both recognizable and strange: cities of anxiety and violence, where quiet inhabitants lead outwardly banal lives that conceal sinister interiors. The premises, both fantastic and surreal, are also eerily plausible; they often follow the logic of dreams where the real can appear in disguise. Though geographically rooted, the setting – from Ottawa to Toronto and the South of France – take on an ephemeral dimension: the geography is of the subconscious.<br><br>With his darkly philosophical bent and sly humour, Alexis has fashioned an underworld and limned it with light. <i>Despair</i> quakes with life and sings with the imaginative brilliance of one of the most accomplished new talents writing today.