A thrillingly stylish and ambitious social novel about the downfall of a mega-rich architect by a provocative new voice in international fiction
'A novel about the housing crisis told from the perspective of those causing it... Lambert's writing is lyrical and rapturous' Heather O'Neill, author of When We Lost Our Heads
Celine Wachowski is in free fall. The internationally renowned architect, host of a hit Netflix show and charismatic liberal icon, has just unveiled plans for a major project in her hometown of Montreal - the ravishing new headquarters for a multinational tech company. It should be the jewel in her glittering crown; but an initial spark of dissent ignites into a full-blown scandal, with Celine's firm excoriated for destroying fragile communities, ushering in a new wave of gentrification and even deadlier crimes. As furious protestors and critical media chip away at her empire, Celine tries to shore up her splendid world that once seemed so secure.
With flowing prose that glints with irony, Kev Lambert infiltrates the upper echelons of society to depict the dreams and anxieties on which skyscrapers are built. This is a dazzlingly stylish social novel about the ways wealth shapes our world - and the seductive fictions of the powerful.
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Winner ofthe Prix Medicis, Prix Decembre and Prix Ringuet, and longlised for the Prix Goncourt
'Equal parts Proust, Woolf, and Gossip Girl, the novel's intimate perspective roves between Celine and her employees, confidantes, and antagonists like a canny eavesdropper at a party' The Walrus
Industry Reviews
'Award-winning Canadian novelist Lambert weaves a hypnotic narrative, smoothly translated from French by Winkler, about greed and inequality, hypocrisy, and, not least, a dangerous notion of purity... An astute critique of entrenched power' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
'May Our Joy Endure captures the sensibilities and excesses of the elite. A novel about the housing crisis told from the perspective of those causing it... Lamberts writing is lyrical and rapturous. In this book, he proves himself a satirical and whimsical Robespierre, hailing from small town Quebec' - Heather O'Neill, author of 'When We Lost Our Heads'
'Merciless... Between the cracks of its shifting perspective, the books darkness seeps through and creates a narrative landslide: the powerful, come what may, will remain in their ivory towers, untouchable. A novel that turns asphyxiation into a readers delight, as long as we are willing to take the plunge' - Le Monde
'A cruel and brilliant fresco... a Proustian novel set in the age of reality TV' - L'Obs
'Virtuosic... One of our most subtle and perceptive novelists... Elegant and vicious... At a time when many fiction writers feel pressure to write socially useful literature, Lamberts refusal to deal in solutions feels like an invigorating slap in the face' - Andre Forget
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