The Orange Grove: A Novel [Paperback]

Twin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shade of their family’s orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys’ grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever. Blood must repay blood, and, in order to avenge their grandparents’ deaths, one brother must offer the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin – now a student actor in a wintry Montreal – is given a role which forces him to confront the past. Tremblay, an actor and director himself, poses the difficult question: can art ever adequately address suffering? Both current and timeless, written with the sharp purity of desert poetry,The Orange Grovedepicts the haunting inheritance of war and its aftermath.

Praise forThe Orange Grove

This is a tale of the innumerable tragedies of war—bereavement, brainwashing, aftermath—told with the lyricism of an epic parable or fairytale, one the reader will not soon forget. —Publishers Weekly

Winner:
Prix des Libraires du Que´bec
Prix litte´raire des colle´giens
Prix litte´raire des enseignants (AQPF-ANEL)
Prix roman & Prix des lecteurs du Salon
du livre du Saguenay Lac St-Jean
Prix coup de coeur des Irre´sistibles

Writing as sober as it is convincing… an essential book. —Chatelaine

The Orange Groveacts as a detonator of conscience and can leave no one indifferent. —L'actualité

A novel which denounces the absurdity of war. The luminosity of the text, which is extremely poetical, contrasts with the horrors of his subject. —La librairie francophone | Radio-Canada

In a literary world which is fueled by easy emotion and writing ravaged by sentimentality, Larry Tremblay keeps the rigor of a true artist who knows it is only emotion that matters… —Zone occupée

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