The Doorman of Windsor Station [Paperback]

Francisco will forever be haunted by the sight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets. Hell remember that sight as he flees the political uprising in Uruguay that night. Hell remember when hes holding a dying homeless man in Windsor Station in Montreal eight months later. Hell remember when hes a successful architect. Hell remember when hes having an affair with a Qu?b?coise pianist named Claire. Hell remember when hes much older, as a vagrant sleeping in a caf? that was once part of Windsor Station, where he meets his son, an activist in the student strikes in Quebec.

As he tries for a better life, Franciscos past keeps finding him, until it blurs with the present in a series of hallucinations, challenging him to reclaim his identity and his rights.Montreal-based playwright, director, and actor Julie Vincent received the Golden Plaque Award for Best Actress at the International Film Festival in Chicago for her role inMourir ? tue-t?te(A Scream from Silence). She also won the Special Jury Award at ?vry, France, for her one-woman showNoir de monde. She teaches at the National Theatre School of Canada and the ?cole nationale de cirque and is director of the theatre company Singulier Pluriel.

Hugh Hazelton is a Montreal writer and translator who specializes in the comparison of Canadian and Quebec literatures with those of Latin America. He has written four books of poetry and translates from Spanish, French, and Portuguese into English; his translation ofV?tiver, a book of poems by Jo?l Des Rosiers, won the Governor Generals Literary Award for French-English Translation in 2006. He is a professor emeritus of Spanish at Concordia University.The mirrored realities of Montevideo in 1973 and Montreal in 2005 fuse together in a time-travelling story about one man who escaped a harrowing coup d?tat in order to find a better life, but instead finds further struggles as an immigrl3¦