Suddenly the Minotaur

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Why did Guatemalan immigrant Mino Torrès try to rape Quebec student Ariane? What was the failed attempt's aftermath? In this terse, prize-winning novel, Marie Hèlène Poitras, with an imagination tutored by the Minotaur myth, offers a controversial tale about a thug who exults in his ferocious urges and is as incorrigible as a primal force. Torrès (the bull) enthusiastically and unapologetically seeks hectic transcendence through rape and recurring fits of epilepsy. Ariane (Ariadne), straying into his twisted, downtown Montreal labyrinth, suffers the consequences of his random sexual predation, though significantly, her refusal to be a terrorized and passive victim haunts him. Show more