The Orphanage

Name: The Orphanage
Brand: Baraka Books
SKU: 9781926824659
Price: 8.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-926-82465-9

An Autobiogrpahy

de Richard Bergeron (auteur), Peter McCambridge (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Baraka Books

septembre 2012

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Résumé

Though both parents were alive, Richard and his four brothers lived in an orphanage for five years! It was in 1959, five floors of dormitories at fifty children a floor, with nuns’ cells on each floor. Richard recalls that, “as in all concentration-camp systems, daily life is dull and repetitive.” Some get up, make their beds, say their prayers, while others line up for the strap. It’s just routine. Sometimes for some people it’s fun, or at least tolerable. For others, it is unbearable. But this tale does not settle old scores or vent bitterness. It will have you laughing and crying. It is simply the short and moving story of how Richard began the rest of his life.

Auteur

Richard Bergeron (auteur)

Richard Bergeron leads the Montreal municipal party Projet Montréal and has twice run for mayor. An architect and an urban planner, he has written five books published in Quebec and in Europe. He is a Montreal city councillor. Richard Bergeron has travelled widely, particularly in Africa. His doctoral thesis in urban planning focuses on housing policy in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Peter McCambridge (auteur)

Originally from Ireland, Peter McCambridge holds a BA in modern languages from Cambridge University, England, and has lived in Quebec City since 2003. He runs Québec Reads and now QC Fiction. Life in the Court of Matane was the first novel he chose for this collection and the book that made him want to become a literary translator in the first place. His translation of the first chapter won the 2012 John Dryden Translation Prize.