Narrated in part by an eleven year old boy and in part by the author, who comes across as around 15 years old!. The story is somewhat silly with a stumbling emphisis on helping each other in a crisis. Based on events in Montreal in the first weeks of 1998, the story involves neighbours who hardly...
Oh dear, disappointing to the point of irritation. It looked intriguing, a French Canadian novel billed as an "International Bestseller," when I picked it up in a London bookshop. But - so childishly written that I wonder if it was not aimed at adolescents like the narrator, rather than the adult...