Bøger af Didier Leclair

Raymond Dossougbé flees the misery of his hometown in Benin and arrives in Toronto, where he is immediately charmed by it. But as he becomes familiar with the city and its inhabitants, he sees deep poverty, extreme wealth, and the consequences of police brutality. Eventually he finds his bearings in this new world and comes to a better understanding of his new self and the colourful characters around him.

Raymond quitte le Bénin et arrive à Toronto, la ville reine, avec pour seul contact un ami d'enfance. Il y rencontre des frères de circonstance, pour qui les rapports à l'intégration et l'adaptation sont très nuancés. Heureusement qu'il y a Toronto, qu'il aime, cette ville aux parfums qui lui sont si familiers, mais si lointains par moments aussi. Toronto, je t'aime, est un magnifique roman aux accents et aux couleurs diversifiés, à l'image de cette ville dont l'auteur a su, dans un style et une langue bien ficelés, en tracer les contours physiques et sociologiques.

Apollinaire, a doctor in his tropical African homeland, is working as a call centre agent in icy Toronto. Still seeing himself as a physician and hoping to obtain his licence to practise in Canada, he drives around at night in a borrowed taxicab, illegally treating the ill and injured, while leaving his loved ones behind. The people he visits include a violent countryman, an AIDS victim who uses a storm lantern for lighting, a former torturer who loves Scrabble, and a host of other characters striving to understand what life means in this new country which is now their own.