Violet Hour: Éric Chacour

Name: Violet Hour: Éric Chacour
Start: 2025-01-21T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-21T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe

Schedule

Tue Jan 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe | Montreal, QC

Join us for an one-on-one interview with author Éric Chacour, author of the multiple award-winning novel, What I Know About You (Ce que je sais de toi). The book is also the January pick for the Violet Hour Book Club.
The event takes place on Tues. Jan 21 at 7 PM at Librairie Pulp Books & Café (3952 Wellington St, Metro De L'Église).
Apparently, there is a lot of interest in this event sotTo secure your spot, you're asked to RSVP at this link: https://pulpbooks.ca/events
Big thanks to our partners, the Équipe de recherche en études queer au Québec (ÉRÉQQ) and Librairie Pulp Books & Café.
For information about the book club discussion:
https://www.facebook.com/events/592051296623750
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Montreal to Egyptian parents, Éric Chacour has shared his life between France and Quebec. A graduate in applied economics and international relations, he now works in the financial sector in Montreal. What I Know About You is his first novel.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Winner, Prix France-Québec 2024
Winner, Prix des Libraires de France 2024
Winner, Première Plume award 2023
Winner, Prix des Cinq Continents 2023
Short-listed, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers 2024
Short-listed, Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize 2024
Short-listed, Giller Prize 2024
As a boy in 1960s Cairo, Tarek knows that his entire life is written in advance. He’ll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eyes of his mother and his sister, he starts to do just that – until Ali enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men, from very different worlds, embark on an unsayable relationship that threatens to tear apart Tarek’s family.
Years later, as Tarek is living a solitary life in Montreal, someone starts writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will he figure it out in time?
A bestseller in its original Quebec edition, and the recipient of several awards, including the Prix Femina des Lycéens, What I Know About You is poised to be an international sensation.