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Trillium Book Award
Finalist
Daniel Castillo Durante
Tango
Éditions L’Interligne
Often confronted with misunderstanding and even the obscurity of a society dedicated to immediate profitability, the characters of Tango’s microfictions are in the grips of a heartbreaking uneasiness, so they go into exile far beyond geographic borders and past internal limitations in the process.
In this new book on the clash and uprooting of cultures, Daniel Castillo Durante takes the unbeaten path to provide a new reading of the world today.
Professor of French and comparative literature, a writer and a traveller, Daniel Castillo Durante is an essayist, novelist, short story writer and microfiction writer who has won several awards, including the 2012 Prix Trillium.
Jury Comment: With Tango, Daniel Castillo Durante shows us that we can be laconic and still bring
out, with a few well-chiseled micro-fictions, a thousand and one facets of the human condition. The author does that right away by disorienting us in time and space while sculpting out the human flaws of characters who are truer than nature. Those characters are certainly brought to life with beautiful and spirited language as uprooting gales buffet them, along with a meeting with an Other who isn’t always what the characters think, but also the less honourable aspects of their own personalities. On the path of exterior exile and interior misguided ways, the author lays out the unvarnished world for us with its angels and demons as if we have always known them.
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