What happens in a care home in the middle of a pandemic when the staff stop showing up to work? Dorval is a small town in Canada near Montreal. In April 2020, health department workers there discovered appalling conditions in a care home. Almost the entire staff of Herron Residence had stopped showing up to work for fear of catching Covid-19. Residents had been left to fend for themselves for days. Some were undernourished, dehydrated and in a desperate state of health. For thirty-one of them, help came too late. ‘This is how it might have been. Frank Schliedermann has imagined his way deep into the setting and characters. Masterfully and without passing judgment, he paints a polyphonic picture of a possible scenario. The various perspectives come together to create a horrific whole. Dorval, Quebec is the best possible example of what fiction can do: it makes reality tangible and understandable.’ (Praise from the jury of the Hamburg Literature Prize)weiterlesen