Lit in Translation

Everything Is Ori

Tout est ori

Paul Serge Forest (born 1984)

Translated by David Warriner

English editions

In English

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Thanks to their enormous plant, the Lelarge family controls the seafood market on Quebec's North Shore. Then a visitor of suspicious elegance, linked to a mysterious Japanese conglomerate, appears on the beach at Baie-Trinité. For Frédéric Goyette, a depressed inspector with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency who loves aquavit and unlistenable jazz, it is the start of an investigation, which begins the night he wades into the river to watch strange glittering particles in the waves. Laurie Lelarge, the rebellious youngest of the family, soon feels a confused but irresistible attraction to the man, not yet knowing that Mori Ishikawa has made an invention that could change the course of history.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
450 pages in the original
Genres
Speculative, Crime (assigned by AI)
Set in
Canada
First published
2021 by VLB éditeur
Author's age
37 when first published
ISBN

9782896498697 (original)

9781771863179 (Baraka Books, Canada)