Dimitri Nasrallah

Hotline

February 16, 2023
Novel
376 pages
128 × 190 mm
22 €
9782925141501
978-2-9251-4150-1
Translated from English by Daniel Grenier

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																Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
																Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration.

Beirut, 1984. Muna kisses Halim for the last time, before he evaporates in a dusty haze of street fighting. Two years later, she and her eight-year-old son Omar move to Montreal, at the beginning of winter, into an apartment too small for them. While she is a very successful phone salesperson of boxed diets, the young single mother is preoccupied with her child, who is always alone at school and at home, and who hides a deep sadness. In the evening, when Muna is decompressing, Halim’s ghost slips into her bathroom, embraces her and talks to her. Will she ever be able to reconstruct the story of her husband’s disappearance and console Omar?

It is through meeting other immigrant women that Muna will find the stability she needs to face her past. A true tribute to the perseverance of migrant mothers, Hotline offers a breath of humanity in a tender language.

The author

Born during the Lebanese civil war in 1982, Dimitri Nasrallah lived in Kuwait, Greece and Dubai before settling family to Canada in 1988. His novels have won numerous awards. Hotline is his fourth novel.

February 16, 2023
Novel
376 pages
128 × 190 mm
22 €
9782925141501
978-2-9251-4150-1
Translated from English by Daniel Grenier

“Littérature étrangère” collection