Alain Farah

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• Mille secrets mille dangers

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  Governor General's (French) 2022 · ★ Winner

  Mille secrets mille dangers

  AITitle translated by AI:“A Thousand Secrets, a Thousand Dangers”

  Alain Farah · 42 when first published

  Novel · 512 pages · Family, Migration, Autofiction

  AIAI-generated summary:On the day Alain marries Virginie in the crypt of Montreal's Saint Joseph's Oratory, surrounded by family who fled the wars of the Middle East, his body and mind start to fail him and a cursed name resurfaces.

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  Governor General's (French) 2014 · Finalist

  Ravenscrag

  Pourquoi Bologne

  Alain Farah · 34 when first published

  Novel · 224 pages · Speculative, Autofiction

  AIAI-generated summary:A writer split between McGill University in 1962 and in 2012 investigates the psychiatrist who conducted deprogramming experiments on patients on campus, experiments his uncle Nab Safi knew about.