![]() Cyril, now working as an intern for a major national newsroom and assisting on reporting a story on homegrown terrorism, tracks down Ari at the bar, and finds out that he is an Israeli who knew his father in Lebanon in the '80s. He'd even left a guest list that included one mysterious name: Ari. Which changes everything.Īt the reading of the will, it turns out that instead of a funeral, Pierre wanted a "roast" at a bar no one knew he frequented-The Only Café in Toronto's east end. But five years later, a single bone and a distinctive gold chain are recovered, and Pierre is at last declared dead. When, in the midst of a corporate scandal, he went missing after his boat exploded, his teenaged son Cyril didn't know how to mourn him. ![]() And he was especially silent about what had happened to him in Lebanon, the country he fled during civil war to come to Canada as a refugee. ![]() Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father, he didn't let anyone really know him. Scotiabank Giller prize-winner Linden MacIntyre is back with a timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father's death-a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native Lebanon. ![]()
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