The Nile on eBay Morel by Melissa Bull, Maxime Raymond Bock
Born during the Great Depression, Jean-Claude Morel is an Everyman, an ordinary Montreal construction worker who has built the city with his own hands, digging its metro, creating islands, and weaving expressways through the downtown core. But the progress has come at a cost: neighbourhoods have been razed, streets wiped off the map, and the Morel family expropriated. Teeming with life, Morel uncovers a story of Montreal that has been buried under years of glitzy urban renewal and modernization. This intricately constructed literary novel is a profoundly human portrait of one man and his time, a monument to a city, and a toast to days gone by.
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Melissa Bull is a half-franco, half-anglo writer, editor, and translator. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Rue, and a collection of fiction, The Knockoff Eclipse. Melissa is the translator of Pascale Rafie's play, The Baklawa Recipe, Nelly Arcan's collection Burqa of Skin, and Marie-Sissi Labrèche's novel, Borderline. Melissa has a BA in Creative Writing from Concordia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. She lives in Montreal. Maxime Raymond Bock was born in Montreal, where he lives today. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the Prix Adrienne-Choquette and was published by Dalkey Archive Press as Atavisms in 2015. Baloney, a novella, was published by Coach House Books in 2016. Morel, his début novel, has been a finalist for the Prix des libraires, Prix littéraire des collégien·ne·s, Grand Prix du livre de Montréal, Prix Senghor and the Rendez-vous du premier roman.
Review
"[An] astounding book . . . a mini epic of an ordinary man, and a time capsule of post-war Montreal with all its problems, economic, political, and environmental. I highly recommend it."--The Miramichi Reader "One of the greatest Quebec novelists and short story writers of our time."--Lettres Québécoises "Bock's language crackles with the energy of a Québécois folk song, impassioned and celebratory but also melancholy and cheekily ironic."--The New Yorker "Bock creates an impressive diversity of voices."--Times Literary Supplement "Morel is an enjoyable novel, one to savour over several sittings, featuring a charismatic protagonist with an incident-filled life, even if he never really ventures far beyond the city he grew up in. A tale of a working-class man, Bock's work tells the story of all those who made it possible for everyone else to enjoy convenient transportation and luxurious office buildings. In effect, for those of us who've led a more sheltered life, it's a glimpse behind the scenes, and a chance to vicariously get our hands dirty. -- Tony's Reading List Review "Bock's hero--his unusual name nested in the name of his city--becomes a metonym for a generation of Montreal's working class. Haunted in old age by aches and pains, Morel is a 'grey, perpetually broken and patched body, left piece by piece to the city.' Some workers give their lives, falling down ventilation shafts or stairwells; others drown in hot asphalt or are killed by falling debris. Though their bodies form part of the new Montreal, they are only pawns, forced to 'compete with each other when they're equally together in this mess, ruin their bodies and souls for fistfuls of change when they made towers surge from the ground for multimillionaires." -- Full Stop Review
Details ISBN1771863374 Author Maxime Raymond Bock Pages 280 Series Qc Fiction Year 2024 Translator Melissa Bull ISBN-13 9781771863377 Format Paperback Audience General Publisher Baraka Books Imprint Baraka Books Place of Publication Montreal Country of Publication Canada Publication Date 2024-07-31 ISBN-10 1771863374 UK Release Date 2024-07-31 We've got this
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