The Party Wall
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Siblings separated by time and place are eventually joined together in this stylistically innovative novel.
Cathèrine Leroux Boeken
Catherine Leroux werd in 1979 geboren nabij Montreal, waar ze vandaag de dag woont met een kat en enkele mensen. Ze werkte als kassierster, telefoniste, barmeid en bibliotheekmedewerkster. Ze gaf les, staakte, verkocht chocolade, studeerde filosofie en voerde schapen, voordat ze journalist werd en haar eerste roman, La marche en forêt, publiceerde. Deze roman van grote menselijkheid, finalist voor de Prix des libraires du Québec, betoverde zowel het publiek als de critici. Le mur mitoyen is haar tweede roman.
"A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was murdered. A stranger in a Fort-Detroit neighborhood coping with the ongoing effects of racial and economic injustice, she finds herself surrounded by poverty, pollution, violence--as well as the resilience of the residents, in whose stubborn generosity and carefully tended gardens she finds hope. When a strange intuition sends her into the woods of Parc Rouge, where the city's orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society, she can't imagine the strength she will find. Set in an alternate history in which the French never surrendered the city of Detroit, where children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves, where rivers poison and heal and young and old alike protect with their lives the people and places they love, Catherine Leroux's The Future is a richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future."--
