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Kev Lambert (b. 1992) grew up in Chicoutimi, Quebec. May Our Joy Endure won the Prix Mdicis, Prix Dcembre, and Prix Ringuet, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Their second novel, Querelle de Roberval, was acclaimed in Quebec, where it was nominated for four literary prizes; in France, where it was a finalist for the Prix Mdicis and Prix Le Monde and won the Prix Sade; and Canada, where it was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Lambert lives in Montreal. Donald Winkler is a translator of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English translation. He lives in Montreal.
'Award-winning Canadian novelist Lambert weaves a hypnotic narrative, smoothly translated from French by Winkler, about greed and inequality, hypocrisy, and, not least, a dangerous notion of purity... An astute critique of entrenched power' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'May Our Joy Endure captures the sensibilities and excesses of the elite. A novel about the housing crisis told from the perspective of those causing it... Lamberts writing is lyrical and rapturous. In this book, he proves himself a satirical and whimsical Robespierre, hailing from small town Quebec' - Heather O'Neill, author of 'When We Lost Our Heads' 'Merciless... Between the cracks of its shifting perspective, the books darkness seeps through and creates a narrative landslide: the powerful, come what may, will remain in their ivory towers, untouchable. A novel that turns asphyxiation into a readers delight, as long as we are willing to take the plunge' - Le Monde 'A cruel and brilliant fresco... a Proustian novel set in the age of reality TV' - L'Obs 'Virtuosic... One of our most subtle and perceptive novelists... Elegant and vicious... At a time when many fiction writers feel pressure to write socially useful literature, Lamberts refusal to deal in solutions feels like an invigorating slap in the face' - Andre Forget
