OWEN HOPKINS, ESQUIRE

In a black universe, Simon Roy explores themes of lies and guilt. It is one of the few Quebec writers to melt in his work an element "Gothic", a fascination with horror for evil, making the crossing his works a deeply human experience.

An inveterate and compulsive liar, an impostor – that's Owen
Hopkins in the eyes of his son Jarvis. When news reaches Montreal
that Owen is dying under the low and grey Yorkshire sky of his
homeland, Jarvis knows what that means. Father and son made a
pact when he was still a child and the time has come for him to fulfil
his promise.
After his first book, Ma vie rouge Kubrick, a cross between a novel
and an essay intertwining the macabre phantasmagoria of the film,
The Shining, and the brutal reality of a family drama, Simon Roy here
explores the themes of lies and guilt, without abandoning his style of
writing in fragments, allusion and metaphors, in which action and
narration continually intersect, and reflection and fiction feed off
each other.
With this second book, Simon Roy firmly establishes his unique place
on the Quebec literary scene. He's one of the rare writers to base his
works on the tragic and how we survive tragedy, which makes
reading his books a deeply moving human experience.

Simon Roy teaches literature in a College. Ma vie rouge Kubrik is his first book won The Booksellers Price.