Les larmes de saint Laurent

On the morning of May 8 1902, Mount P l e erupts, killing the entire population of the city of Saint-Pierre. One man miraculously survives the slaughter: Babtiste Cyparis, the ghost of the Apocalypse. At the same time, in England, a mathematician and his musician wife attempt to uncover the secrets of fire and earth. In Montreal, a hundred years later, two strangers meet on Mount Royal in a garden of trees and crosses, their only witnesses being a dog and the city that surrounds them. From a prison in Martinique to Barnum & Bailey’s big top, from the flanks of Vesuvius to Saint-Lawrence Street in Montreal, the author of On the Proper Use of Stars draws us into a novel where past and present answer each other. A fresco steeped in light, echoing the very sound of the Earth’s beating heart.