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Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon by Jean-Paul Dubois — book cover

Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon

by Jean-Paul Dubois

Prix Goncourt · 2019 · Winner
L'OlivierLiterary Fiction

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Prix Goncourt2019Winner

About This Book

A French-Canadian man sits in a Montreal prison cell, narrating the story of his marriage, his Protestant pastor father-in-law, and the forces of injustice that brought him there, in a meditation on dignity and the beauty of ordinary life.

About the Author

Jean-Paul Dubois is a French novelist and journalist born in 1950 in Toulouse. He worked for many years as a reporter for Le Nouvel Observateur, covering North America, and has spent significant time in Canada and the United States, influences that are visible in his fiction's attentiveness to exile, displacement, and the texture of North American life. Dubois is a prolific novelist who has published more than twenty books since the late 1980s. Read more →

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