Tatouine

By: Jean-Christophe Réhel, Katherine Hastings, Peter McCambridge

Narrated by: Adam Kenneth Wilson

It’s a long way from a basement apartment in a Montréal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that’s the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing listeners with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey.

Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store, and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment, he dreams of a new life on Tatouine, where he’ll play Super Mario Bros and make sand angels all day. But in the meantime, he’ll have to make do with daydreams of a better life.

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©2020 Jean-Christophe Réhel, Katherine Hastings, Peter McCambridge (P)2021 Bespeak Audio Editions

Critic reviews

“… a novel of inventive, self-deprecating humour.” (Globe and Mail)

“Looking at the world through this narrator’s eyes is a wonderful combination of entertaining and heartbreaking.” (Book Riot)

“Réhel has a poet’s eye for rhythm, repetition, and stark imagery that thankfully isn’t lost in the exceptional translation by Katherine Hastings and Peter McCambridge.” (Montreal Review of Books)