Fiction. Translated from the French by Jacob Homel. From birth, the child was locked away in a minuscule cell, at #804 of level 5969 of the Edifice. Around him... only concrete, without a view of the outside world. And two the tyrannical father, slowly killing himself; and the mother, fearing eviction. Unmoving in his roost, the child's life will be disrupted by a transformation that will reveal an unexpected horizon. "A unique literary exercise that can't be solely described as a traditional dystopian novel. Indeed, a disturbing strangeness worms its way throughout, a strangeness that could be at home in a fantasy novel, a realist psychological work, a poetic experience. Perhaps Karoline Georges has in fact created a new genre, the claustrophobic novel, but she demonstrates that despite whatever constraints are put on her work, a writer can create the most peculiar worlds through the singular strength of her imagination."—Chantal Guy, La Presse "Echoes of George Orwell's 1984 are heard throughout this excellent novel with its style as cold and dark as whatever lies under the stone..."—Lisanne Rhéault-Leblanc, 7 jours