news | Monday March 26, 2018

Montreal Gothic in the house

[The Green Chamber book]

Our latest arrival is The Green Chamber, a Montreal Gothic novel by the brilliant Martine Desjardins and translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel. Luxe, eerie, and wryly amusing, The Green Chamber is not to be missed; in the words of author M.A.C. Farrant, “Desjardins has created a comic novel worthy of the word ‘great’”!

Set between 1913 and 1963 in one of Montreal’s upper-middle-class, suburban neighbourhoods, Martine Desjardins’s The Green Chamber is a riveting, fast-paced, highly atmospheric novel that chronicles the decline of a wealthy French-Canadian family over the course of three generations. Desjardins’s humorous gothic saga – with its gallery of eccentric characters who play the races in secret and guzzle vanilla extract – reveals and revels in the fate of family fortunes: the first generation makes the money, the second generation lives on the interest, and the third blows it …

Order your copy today!