Bar Balto

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Description

Joël, aka ‘The Rink’ (because his bald patch is shiny enough to skate on), the unpopular owner of the only bar in town has been murdered. There are so many suspects, it’s not so much a question of who did kill him as who didn’t. There’s Magalie, the temperamental teenager obsessed with Paris Hilton; her troublemaker boyfriend, Tani; Tani’s mother, Madame Levi; her unemployed, daytime-TV addicted husband; Yeznig, their younger son, who has learning difficulties but perfect memory recall; and newcomers Ali and Nadia, the Muslim twins struggling to fit in. As the tension mounts and we’re still none the wiser, the ending is as tragic as it is unexpected.

Additional information

Weight 0.117 kg
Dimensions 0.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

160

Publisher

Year Published

2017-11-30

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1784707392

About The Author

Faiza Guene was born in France in 1985 to Algerian parents. She wrote her first novel, Just Like Tomorrow, when she was 17 years old. It was a huge success in France, selling over 360,000 copies and translation rights around the world, and was shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award 2006 and longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007. Her second book was Dreams from the Endz.

Review Quote

The various monologues very cleverly paint the picture of a day in the life of this deprived society; [it] is very thoroughly and convincingly done… She writes with intelligence and sympathy, with humour and understanding

Other text

Engaging… Along with the corpse himself, [the suspects] tell their stories in a series of monologues, and this is where Guène, with the help of an excellent translation by Ardizzone, really shines