Zippo

Overview

Caught up in a world of chaos, Nuovo Kahid struggles to remember the details of one fateful night before it’s all too late in this gripping political thriller. In a North American city in the near future, a great economic summit is getting under way, and Kahid is the journalist assigned to cover it. Meanwhile, Villanueva, a crumbling modern city rife with corruption, is falling into ruin as a meteor makes its way towards Earth.

Reviews

“More than just a dark futuristic novel, Zippo sits at the rarely visited border between the detective story and science fiction. Here is a striking testimonial on the stormy beginning of our new century. The elliptic, well-worked, stylized and poetic writing quickly wins us over, regardless of syntactic conventions: the sentence is often severed from its subject and syncopated as if it was the very reflection of this tattered, tense universe.”  —Solaris

“A work as frightening as it is fascinating. No reader can be left indifferent.”  —Le Libraire

Author Biography

Mathieu Blais is a teacher and a writer. He is the author of L’Isthme, Los hermanos mes frères, Que le cri détaché de ta colère, and Sylvestre: au temps des galimatias. Joël Casséus is a professor of sociology at Cégep Vanier College. Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo is a visual artist and a freelance translator.