The Neptune Room
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Sandrine's parents are dead—or they are about to be. Her father, certainly; her mother, not quite yet. Alone and suffering from an incurable disease, the eleven-year-old girl finds companionship in her doctor, Tiresias, who morphologically changes sex in unpredictable ways and seemingly without anyone noticing.
The Neptune Room, a melancholic tale about the mysteries of identity and the power dynamics associated with it, opens a door unto a universe of agonies: the long agony of an entire civilization and, microscopically, the spectrum of pain experienced by a young girl and those around her. Voicing anguish and perpetual mourning, The Neptune Room is a poetic novel, at once artful and compassionate, kaleidoscopic in its chronology, and resoundingly sombre. It is about change, great and small, and all the little deaths along the way—both public and private. It embodies a puncto reflexionis—a turning point piecing together the tender, terrible, unmistakable puzzle that is life.
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Bertrand Laverdure
Né en 1967, Bertrand Laverdure est poète, romancier, performeur, blogueur, « technicien coiffeur », recherchiste et chroniqueur pour l’émission littéraire Tout le monde tout lu! à MAtv. Il s'intéresse à la multidisciplinarité en littérature. En poésie, il a notamment publié Rires (Noroît 2004), Sept et demi (Le Quartanier, 2007) et Rapport de stage en milieu humain (Triptyque,2014). Ses romans, dont Gomme de xanthane (Triptyque, 2006), Lectodôme (Quartanier, 2008), J’invente la piscine (roman pour adolescents, La courte échelle, 2010), ainsi que Bureau universel des copyrights (La Peuplade,2011), ont tous reçu un accueil critique chaleureux. Il a participé à plusieurs collectifs d’auteurs, dont Être un héros (La courte échelle, 2011), deux collectifs au Quartanier et Bienvenue aux dames (VLB, 2014). La traduction en anglais de Bureau universel des copyrights est parue chez Bookthug à Toronto en octobre 2014. Il a obtenu le prix Joseph S. Stauffer, décerné par le Conseil des arts du Canada, en 1999. Il a également reçu le prix Rina-Lasnier en 2003 pour son recueil Les forêts (Noroît, 2000), recueil qui fut aussi retenu comme finaliste au prix Émile-Nelligan en 2000. Son livre Audioguide (Noroît, 2002), a aussi été en nomination pour le Grand Prix du Festival international de Poésie de Trois-Rivières en 2003.
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