Used book – Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon - Prix Goncourt 2019, Jean-Paul Dubois

Paul Hansen has been serving his sentence in Montreal's provincial prison for two years. He shares a cell with Horton, a Hells Angel incarcerated for murder.

Flashback: Hansen is the superintendent at L'Excelsior, a residence where he showcases his talents as a concierge, caretaker, factotum, and – even more so – a mender of souls and comforter of the afflicted. When he's not busy helping the residents of L'Excelsior or maintaining the buildings, he joins Winona, his partner. At the controls of her airplane, she takes him high into the sky, above the clouds. But soon everything changes. A new manager arrives at L'Excelsior, conflicts erupt. And the inevitable happens.

A church buried in the dunes of a beach, an open-pit asbestos mine, the meanders of a silver-colored river, the sound waves of an organ compose the varied landscapes where this novel unfolds.

A life story, Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la même façon (All Men Do Not Inhabit the World in the Same Way) is one of Jean-Paul Dubois' most beautiful books. It reveals a writer driven by a keen sense of fraternity and a feeling of revolt against all forms of injustice.

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