Acclaimed Canadian author Norman Nawrocki launches his two new books of fiction, Red Squared Montreal and Isabelle Walks With Angels, A Montreal Urban Legend, Saturday September 30, 2023 @ Time Out Bookstore, 432 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden Village, Auckland, 7pm. For this multi-media double launch he will read book excerpts, play his treated violin and screen a new short film, Isabelle Walks With Angels.

Red Squared Montreal book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL3LJcPM1Pc      
Isabelle film & book teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1THJQ4cbEBk

BOOK & FILM DESCRIPTIONS:

Isabelle Walks With Angels, A Montreal Urban Legend (Les Pages Noires, 2023), is an extraordinary magical realist short story (embedded in an artbook) about a despairing woman who meets an all-women biker gang. Nawrocki says he wrote the story “for all the Isabelles of the world, shunted aside, marginalized and ignored.”

Isabelle Walks With Angels, the film, was created by the Montreal multi-disciplinary artist collective Isabelle’s Angels. It blends theatre, dance, animation, visual art and music (by one of Nawrocki’s bands, DaZoque!) and interprets his short story of the same name. 

Red Squared Montreal (Black Rose Books, 2023) revisits and reframes the historic and bloody student strike and mass social rebellion of 2012 that rocked Quebec, especially Montreal. It was the largest and longest civil disobedience movement in Canadian history involving hundreds of thousands. 

Norman Nawrocki is the author of sixteen books of fiction and poetry (with translations in French & Italian), two dozen plays, cabarets and musicals, and can be found on 68 albums of music. He tours the world and sometimes teaches.