Author: Linden MacIntyre
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0345812077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Only Café is both a moving mystery in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father's death--and an illuminating exploration of how the traumatic past, if left unexamined, shadows every moment of the present. Pierre Cormier had secrets. Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father, he didn't let anyone really know him. And he was especially silent about what had happened to him in Lebanon, the country he fled during civil war to come to Canada as a refugee. When, in the midst of a corporate scandal, he went missing after his boat exploded, his teenaged son Cyril didn't know how to mourn him. But five years later, a single bone and a distinctive gold chain are recovered, and Pierre is at last declared dead. Which changes everything. At the reading of the will, it turns out that instead of a funeral, Pierre wanted a "roast" at a bar no one knew he frequented--The Only Café in Toronto's east end. He'd even left a guest list that included one mysterious name: Ari. Cyril, now working as an intern for a major national newsroom and assisting on reporting a story on homegrown terrorism, tracks down Ari at the bar, and finds out that he is an Israeli who knew his father in Lebanon in the '80s. Who is Ari? What can he reveal about what happened to Pierre in Lebanon? Is Pierre really dead? Can Ari even be trusted? Soon Cyril's personal investigation is entangled in the larger news story, all of it twining into a fabric of lies and deception that stretches from contemporary Toronto back to the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon in September 1982.
The Only Café
Author: Linden MacIntyre
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0345812077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Only Café is both a moving mystery in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father's death--and an illuminating exploration of how the traumatic past, if left unexamined, shadows every moment of the present. Pierre Cormier had secrets. Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father, he didn't let anyone really know him. And he was especially silent about what had happened to him in Lebanon, the country he fled during civil war to come to Canada as a refugee. When, in the midst of a corporate scandal, he went missing after his boat exploded, his teenaged son Cyril didn't know how to mourn him. But five years later, a single bone and a distinctive gold chain are recovered, and Pierre is at last declared dead. Which changes everything. At the reading of the will, it turns out that instead of a funeral, Pierre wanted a "roast" at a bar no one knew he frequented--The Only Café in Toronto's east end. He'd even left a guest list that included one mysterious name: Ari. Cyril, now working as an intern for a major national newsroom and assisting on reporting a story on homegrown terrorism, tracks down Ari at the bar, and finds out that he is an Israeli who knew his father in Lebanon in the '80s. Who is Ari? What can he reveal about what happened to Pierre in Lebanon? Is Pierre really dead? Can Ari even be trusted? Soon Cyril's personal investigation is entangled in the larger news story, all of it twining into a fabric of lies and deception that stretches from contemporary Toronto back to the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon in September 1982.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0345812077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Only Café is both a moving mystery in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father's death--and an illuminating exploration of how the traumatic past, if left unexamined, shadows every moment of the present. Pierre Cormier had secrets. Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father, he didn't let anyone really know him. And he was especially silent about what had happened to him in Lebanon, the country he fled during civil war to come to Canada as a refugee. When, in the midst of a corporate scandal, he went missing after his boat exploded, his teenaged son Cyril didn't know how to mourn him. But five years later, a single bone and a distinctive gold chain are recovered, and Pierre is at last declared dead. Which changes everything. At the reading of the will, it turns out that instead of a funeral, Pierre wanted a "roast" at a bar no one knew he frequented--The Only Café in Toronto's east end. He'd even left a guest list that included one mysterious name: Ari. Cyril, now working as an intern for a major national newsroom and assisting on reporting a story on homegrown terrorism, tracks down Ari at the bar, and finds out that he is an Israeli who knew his father in Lebanon in the '80s. Who is Ari? What can he reveal about what happened to Pierre in Lebanon? Is Pierre really dead? Can Ari even be trusted? Soon Cyril's personal investigation is entangled in the larger news story, all of it twining into a fabric of lies and deception that stretches from contemporary Toronto back to the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon in September 1982.
Paris and Its Environs
Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Metropolitan
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
London Statistics
Author: London County Council
Publisher:
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Category : London
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Statistics of the Administrative County of London ... together with certain statistics of the adjacent districts.
Publisher:
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Category : London
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Statistics of the Administrative County of London ... together with certain statistics of the adjacent districts.
Maria's Christmas Annual
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Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
My Years of Exile
Author: Eduard Bernstein
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Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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World's Great Detective Stories
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Author:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The People's Condensed Library
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, in the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Years, of His Late Majesty King George the Second. [1734-1736]
Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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