Who is Ari? What can he reveal about what happened to Pierre in Lebanon? Is Pierre really dead? Can Ari even be trusted? Soon Cyril's personal investigation is entangled in the larger news story, all of it twining into a fabric of lies and deception that stretches from contemporary Toronto back to the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon in September 1982. The Only Cafe is both a moving mystery in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his fathers. 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 1980s. Buy The Only Cafe by Linden Macintyre at Mighty Ape NZ. He'd even left a guest list that included one mysterious name: Ari. 2, 2017Īt 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. The Only Café: A Novel MacIntyre, Linden 3.52 avg rating (827 ratings by Goodreads) Softcover ISBN 10: 0345812077ISBN 13: 9780345812070 Publisher: Vintage Canada, 2018 This specific ISBN edition is currently not available.

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.

Fall book preview: 20 works of Canadian fiction we're excited to read In this smart, tough novel, veteran journalist and author MacIntyre, whose novel The Bishop’s Man won Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize, turns his sharp eye to a piece of history that he covered.

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