Lit in Translation

The Dishwasher

Le plongeur

Stéphane Larue (born 1983)

Translated by Pablo Strauss

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In English

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Montreal, early winter 2002. The narrator is not yet twenty. He loves Lovecraft, metal, comic books and science fiction, studies graphic design and wants to be a cartoonist. But for months he has been avoiding his friends, lying and running up debts: he is a gambler, and all his money goes into video lottery terminals. Broke, isolated and without an apartment, he becomes a dishwasher at La Trattoria, where he befriends Bébert, a seasoned cook, a tireless ogre with a rapper's gift of the gab, already worn down by alcohol and speed. Over a month and a half of evening and double shifts in the pre-holiday rush, among owners, chefs, cooks, servers and busboys, he tries to master his obsession.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
568 pages in the original
Genres
Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
Canada, 2002
First published
2016 by Le Quartanier
Author's age
33 when first published
ISBN

9782896982721 (original)

9781771962698 (Biblioasis, Canada)

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