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Kev Lambert (b. 1992) grew up in Chicoutimi, Quebec. May Our Joy Endure won the Prix Médicis, Prix Décembre, 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 Médicis 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.Sharp, provocative... Embeds ever-timely themes - greed, hypocrisy, privilege - in a narrative that blends satire and lyricism, whimsy and voyeurism... You won't be able to look away
Observer
Acerbic... A lacerating comedy of manners that skewers the hypocrisy not only of the super-rich but of society itself
Telegraph
A novel about the housing crisis told from the perspective of those causing it... Lambert's writing is lyrical and rapturous
- Heather O’Neill, author of 'When We Lost Our Heads',
This is a novel that makes readers take mordant notice of the world around them - but it is more than a mere succession of clever scores on self-aggrandizing elite progressivism... Impressive
TLS
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, Lambert's refusal to deal in solutions feels like an invigorating slap in the face
- André Forget, The Walrus
Cancel culture relies on sudden, decisive judgements. May Our Joy Endure does not, and is all the better for that. It's a swirling, dizzying novel, one in which Lambert seems to take a kind of cheeky pleasure in toying with expectations and swerving resolutions
Literary Review
A hypnotic narrative about greed and inequality, hypocrisy, and, not least, a 'dangerous notion of purity'... An astute critique of entrenched power
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Merciless... Between the cracks of its shifting perspective, the book's darkness seeps through and creates a narrative landslide... A reader's delight
Le Monde
A cruel and brilliant fresco... a Proustian novel set in the age of reality TV
L'Obs
Brilliantly explores and satirizes the world of the ultra-rich, the galloping gentrification of neighborhoods, and the incestuous and parasitic links between political and economic circles
Fugues
Equal parts Proust, Woolf, and Gossip Girl, the novel's intimate perspective roves between Céline and her employees, confidantes, and antagonists like a canny eavesdropper at a party, showcasing Lambert's gimlet eye for the delusions and designer preferences of the 1 percent
- Michelle Cyca, The Walrus
Lambert's finely crafted literary edifice is intellectually brilliant, forcing us to think about the privilege of some and the suffering of others
Le Devoir