Twin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shade of their family's orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys' grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever. Blood must repay blood, and, in order to avenge their grandparents' deaths, one brother must offer the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin -- now a student actor in a wintry Montreal -- is given a role which forces him to confront the past. Tremblay, an actor and director himself, poses the difficult question: can art ever adequately address suffering? Both current and timeless, written with the sharp purity of desert poetry, The Orange Grove depicts the haunting inheritance of war and its aftermath.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 9781571311191
Number of pages: 174
Weight: 214 g
Dimensions: 203 x 133 mm
Praise for The Orange Grove "This is a tale of the innumerable tragedies of war--bereavement, brainwashing, aftermath--told with the lyricism of an epic parable or fairytale, one the reader will not soon forget."--Publishers Weekly Winner: Prix des Libraires du Que'bec Prix litte'raire des colle'giens Prix litte'raire des enseignants (AQPF-ANEL) Prix roman & Prix des lecteurs du Salon du livre du Saguenay Lac St-Jean Prix coup de coeur des Irre'sistibles "Writing as sober as it is convincing... an essential book."--Chatelaine "The Orange Grove acts as a detonator of conscience and can leave no one indifferent." --L'actualite "A novel which denounces the absurdity of war. The luminosity of the text, which is extremely poetical, contrasts with the horrors of his subject."--La librairie francophone | Radio-Canada "In a literary world which is fueled by easy emotion and writing ravaged by sentimentality, Larry Tremblay keeps the rigor of a true artist who knows it is only emotion that matters..."--Zone occupee "The willing simplicity of [Tremblay's] writing recalls the story of Cain and Abel or the parable of the prodigal son... With The Orange Grove, Larry Tremblay gives us a novel we ought to read...not once but twice."--Chantal Guy, La Presse "A fluid and troubling fable; a subtle and fine poetry."--Marc Cassivi, La Presse "A must read!"--Telejournal Radio-Canada Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean "[A] real literary punch."--Stanley Pean, Le libraire The Orange Grove is a work of great topicality that should be read with the heart of a child and the conscience of an adult.--Impact Campus "With a poetic pen, the author presents a fable on identity, filiation and lies. A story at once hard and touching which is devoured in an evening."--Coup de pouce "Another novel about war...but exceptional because of the purity of the writing... A little jewel, finely chiseled. Perhaps the best Quebecois novel of 2013."--Elle Quebec "This moving account is served by writing of perfect restraint and crisp strokes."--Lettres quebecoises "It's a very lovely book which is brutal... inhabited...haunted, truly superb."-- Sorj Chalandon, Prix Goncourt nominee "The Orange Grove tugs at the heart and, even though very current, carries all the qualities of a timeless fable."--Bible urbaine
The Orange Grove, by Larry Tremblay (translated by Sheila Fischman), is the second book in the publisher’s 2017 East and West: Looking Both Ways series. The story opens in an Arabic country wracked by war, where nine... More
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