Ηλεκτρικές καταιγίδες

by David Homel, Καίτη Οικονόμου (translator)

Chicago, années soixante : dans leur banlieue, Vinnie Rabb et les Kensington Krazies écoutent Jimi Hendrix et Jefferson Airplane, découvrent l'amour ou la sexualité, tentant de fuir le monde des adultes et le spectre de la guerre du Viêt-nam... Jusqu'au jour où l'un d'eux est sauvagement assassiné sous leurs yeux.

Tout bascule alors. Sur les ruines de l'innocence perdue, ceux qui restent n'ont plus qu'une obsession : la justice à leur manière et l'expiation de la faute. La violence monte, saisissante, implacable, soulignée par quelques moments de pure tendresse. Dans ce premier roman, David Homel tend à une Amérique qu'il a bien connue, à une génération qui est la sienne, le miroir où se reflètent leurs délires, leurs espérances et leurs contradictions.

213 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 1988

About the author

David Homel was born and raised in Chicago in 1952. He has been a journalist, editor, literary translator, and teacher, and has won numerous awards for translation, including the Governor General’s Award for Literature, Canada’s highest literary honor.

He is the author of several novels, including The Speaking Cure, which won the J.I. Segal Award from the Jewish Public Library, and the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Best Fiction from the Quebec Writer's Federation. He has also written children's books, including Travels with my Family, which was co-authored with his wife, Canadian children's author Marie-Louise Gay. He has translated several French works, receiving two Governor General's Literary Awards for translation. Homel was born and raised in Chicago and currently resides in Montreal.