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About the Book

'Sharp, provocative... You won't be able to look away' Observer

'Acerbic... A lacerating comedy of manners' Telegraph

Céline Wachowski is in free fall. The internationally renowned architect, host of a hit Netflix show and charismatic liberal icon, has just unveiled plans for a major project in her hometown of Montreal - the ravishing new headquarters for a multinational tech company. It should be the jewel in her glittering crown; but an initial spark of dissent ignites into a full-blown scandal, with Céline's firm excoriated for destroying fragile communities, ushering in a new wave of gentrification and even deadlier crimes. As furious protestors and critical media chip away at her empire, Céline tries to shore up her splendid world that once seemed so secure.

With flowing prose that glints with irony, Kev Lambert infiltrates the upper echelons of society to depict the dreams and anxieties on which skyscrapers are built. This is a dazzlingly stylish social novel about the ways wealth shapes our world - and the seductive fictions of the powerful.

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Winner ofthe Prix Médicis, Prix Décembre and Prix Ringuet, and longlised for the Prix Goncourt

'A novel about the housing crisis told from the perspective of those causing it... Lambert's writing is lyrical and rapturous' Heather O'Neill, author of When We Lost Our Heads



About the Author :
Kev Lambert (b. 1992) grew up in Chicoutimi, Quebec. May Our Joy Endure won the Prix Médicis, Prix Décembre, and Prix Ringuet, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Their second novel, Querelle de Roberval, was acclaimed in Quebec, where it was nominated for four literary prizes; in France, where it was a finalist for the Prix Médicis and Prix Le Monde and won the Prix Sade; and Canada, where it was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Lambert lives in Montreal. Donald Winkler is a translator of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English translation. He lives in Montreal.

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Sharp, provocative... Embeds ever-timely themes - greed, hypocrisy, privilege - in a narrative that blends satire and lyricism, whimsy and voyeurism... You won't be able to look away Acerbic... A lacerating comedy of manners that skewers the hypocrisy not only of the super-rich but of society itself A novel about the housing crisis told from the perspective of those causing it... Lambert's writing is lyrical and rapturous This is a novel that makes readers take mordant notice of the world around them - but it is more than a mere succession of clever scores on self-aggrandizing elite progressivism... Impressive Virtuosic... One of our most subtle and perceptive novelists... Elegant and vicious... At a time when many fiction writers feel pressure to write socially useful literature, Lambert's refusal to deal in solutions feels like an invigorating slap in the face Cancel culture relies on sudden, decisive judgements. May Our Joy Endure does not, and is all the better for that. It's a swirling, dizzying novel, one in which Lambert seems to take a kind of cheeky pleasure in toying with expectations and swerving resolutions A hypnotic narrative about greed and inequality, hypocrisy, and, not least, a 'dangerous notion of purity'... An astute critique of entrenched power Merciless... Between the cracks of its shifting perspective, the book's darkness seeps through and creates a narrative landslide... A reader's delight A cruel and brilliant fresco... a Proustian novel set in the age of reality TV Brilliantly explores and satirizes the world of the ultra-rich, the galloping gentrification of neighborhoods, and the incestuous and parasitic links between political and economic circles Equal parts Proust, Woolf, and Gossip Girl, the novel's intimate perspective roves between Céline and her employees, confidantes, and antagonists like a canny eavesdropper at a party, showcasing Lambert's gimlet eye for the delusions and designer preferences of the 1 percent Lambert's finely crafted literary edifice is intellectually brilliant, forcing us to think about the privilege of some and the suffering of others


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781805332985
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pushkin Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1805332988
  • Publisher Date: 27 Feb 2025
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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