Shortlisted for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Fiction Prizeamp160amp8226 Winner of the 2023 ReLit Award for Fictionamp160amp8226 Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary AwardHomage to Jean Genets antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy Querelle of Roberval winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize is a wildly imaginative story of justice passion and murderous revengeamp10As a millworkersamp8217 strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on tensions start to escalate between the workersbut when a lockout renews their solidarity they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle a dashing newcomer from Montreal Strapping and unabashed likeable but callow by day he walks the picket lines and at night moves like a mythic Adonis through the ranks of young men who flock to his apartment for sex As the dispute hardens and both sides refuse to yield sand stalls the gears of the economic machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent Trenchant social drama a tribute to Jean Genetamp8217s antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy Querelle of Roberval winner of Franceamp8217s Marquis de Sade Prize is a wildly imaginative story of justice passion and murderous revenge
