Bøker av Kevin Lambert

Céline Wachowski is having a bad day. The internationally renowned architect, host of a hit Netflix show and source of a thousand memes, has just unveiled her plans for a major public project in her hometown of Montreal. It should be the jewel in her glittering crown; but an initial spark of dissent ignites into a full-blown scandal, with Céline's firm excoriated for destroying fragile communities, ushering in a new era of gentrification and many deadlier sins. As furious protestors and critical media chip away at her empire, Céline tries to shore up her splendid world that once seemed so secure. With flowing prose that glints with irony, Kevin Lambert infiltrates the upper echelons of society to depict the dreams and anxieties on which skyscrapers are built. This is a dazzlingly stylish social novel about the ways wealth shapes our world - and the fictions the powerful tell themselves so that their joy endures.

Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeHomage to Jean Genets antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy,Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.As a millworkers strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workersbut when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he walks the picket lines and at night moves like a mythic Adonis through the ranks of young men who flock to his apartment for sex. As the dispute hardens and both sides refuse to yield, sand stalls the gears of the economic machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent. Trenchant social drama, a tribute to Jean Genets antihero, and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of Frances Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.

Reveling in its own perversity, this horror tale accuses suburban Quebec of abusing and murdering its children-then takes revenge.