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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad, trans. Linda Gaboriau

ISBN
978-0-88754-926-7

$18.95

Books by Wajdi Mouawad

Alphonse

Dreams

Forests

Scorched

Tideline

Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons'

Books by Linda Gaboriau:

Dreams

Forests

Matthew and Stephen

Scorched

The Paper Eagle

Two Steps From the Stars

Scorched, Second Edition

by Wajdi Mouawad, trans. Linda Gaboriau

A mother falls into complete silence. Upon her death, her twin children are asked to uproot the source of that silence. They must find the father they never knew, and the brother they never knew they had. Their journey begins in Montreal but the answers lie in the rubble of a war-torn desert.

Wajdi Mouawad’s writing is powerful; a beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother’s unspeakable pain. The closer Janine and Simon get to finding the source of her silence, the closer they are to uncovering a tragedy so horrific it will engulf the world they know.

“This haunting work may be the best piece of theatre this country has produced this millennium.” —Globe and Mail

“Mouawad knows when to lighten the load with broad comedy, when to scent the air with poetry that lingers long afterwards, and when to use the inevitable building blocks of good dramatic structure to create a towering edifice of pain everyone must climb.” —Toronto Star

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