The Roastery by Émile Ollivier
The Roastery by Émile Ollivier
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On the terrace of La Brûlerie, in Côte-des-Neiges, a young stranger approaches Jonas Lazard and introduces herself: I am Cynthia, Virgile's daughter. You are the only one who can tell me who my father was. For Jonas Lazard, the memory of his friend Virgile, a former far-left activist who had chosen exile to flee the dictatorship, evokes a whole world whose lifeline was called Côte-des-Neiges and whose main temples were called Chez Vito, Chez Paesano, Le Bouvillon, la Brioche dorée, temples of speech where the dreams of all the uprooted come to grief, where passions are born that lead to death. In his latest novel, Émile Ollivier traces a mythical geography of wandering and delivers an irreplaceable testimony of the Haitian diaspora in Montreal, this city that we initially believed to be only a land of passage before the great return, but which gets under our skin, into our brain like white-hot nails.
