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Toronto, I love you : a novel / Didier Leclair ; translated by Elaine Kennedy.

by Leclair, Didier.

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Mawenzi House, 2022.

Immigrants -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Fiction.

Ethnicity -- Fiction.

Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction.

Toronto (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Ontario -- Fiction.

9781774150665 (trade pbk.)

134 p. ; 23 cm.

Translated from the French.

Raymond Dossougbé flees the misery of his hometown in Benin and arrives in Toronto, where he is immediately charmed by it. He sees the city as a place of freedom and light, a sanctuary where he, like so many others, can begin anew. But as he becomes familiar with the city and its inhabitants, he realizes that his Afro-Caribbean roommates look like him but aren't his brothers. He discovers a free community that is mentally shackled, stuck in the past, unable and unwilling to adapt. He sees deep poverty, extreme wealth, and the consequences of police brutality. Eventually he finds his bearings in this new world and comes to a better understanding of his new self and the colourful characters around him. Toronto je t'aime won the Prix Trillium when it first came out in 2000.

Canadian fiction.

Historical fiction.

French-Canadian fiction -- Translations into English.

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