Bystander
Noelle Walsh
, Emily Bickell
, Sandra Furlotte
, Dawn Macdonald
, Deana Bueley
, Penny Gilman
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Jude Castillo
, Stephanie Baird
, Sebastian Schulman
, Barry Kazimer
, Sarah Schwartz
, Linda Leitch
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Hoda Montazeri
, Marilyn Stanley
, Andrea Pole
, Shannon Holmes
, Marissa Yip-Young
, zelda dwyer
, Kevin Smith
, Cathy White
, Cathy White
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Tyler Webb
, LJ Law
, Mathew Webb
, Carol Parchewsky
, Holly Elisabeth
, Kim Wiggins
, Andy Holmes
, Ed Gilman
, Melissa Kohlman
, Joshua Lewis
, Lynn Hallson
, P. Thompson
, Jennifer Beyak
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Tina May
, Crystal Inwood
, Louise Walsh
, Deb Philippon
, Annika Fotheringham
, Debra Fisher
, Andrea Gillespie
, Patricia McKeown
, Caleb Nault
, Jane Graham
, joy mills
, Laura Peters
, Kathryn Galan
, C. Ray
, Paula Ritchie
, Diana Richardson
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Christine Lion
, jane luce
, Rosa Cross
, Karen Kendrick
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Ellen Clarke
, Leona Burlew
, Heather Belliveau
, Charles Leblanc
, Robert Hykawy
, Randi Ann Doll
, Chris Lantz
, Huguette Lemieux
, Denise Duvall
, Alanna King
, Debbie Youngman
, Amie Gaudet
, Stefanie Torres
, Stephanie Strain
, Jessica Murray
, Karen Nordrum
, Susi Lovell
, Yolande Thivierge
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Peter Simons doesn’t spend much time at home in his apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is often flying around the world, enjoying a life of luxurious solitude in five-star hotels. So when he returns after being away for nine months and notices a strange smell coming from his neighbour’s apartment, he initially tries not to get involved, but when a body is discovered, Peter’s carefully cultivated detachment begins to crumble. And when new people move into the vacant apartment, he gets caught up in a petty dispute that will bring him to the brink of moral ruin.
Bystander is a pitiless, bold work of intense psychological realism narrated by a professionally successful but socially bankrupt anti-hero who expects global connection and local anonymity. It excoriates the contingency of contemporary morality, and, at a time of growing isolation, forces the reader to examine what it means to be a good neighbour.
