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In a collapsing Montreal, survival has become a game. Seventeen-year-old Bella and her father, Walter-a traumatized war veteran-live on the margins of a society unraveling under economic ruin and political fracture. Each day, they enter the ballroom: a repurposed relic of luxury where the desperate gather to compete in a strange and brutal ritual. The rules are simple. Count the people. Win the jackpot. Lose-and return to the cold. As hunger tightens its grip and the past refuses to stay buried, Bella and Walter cling to one another in a world that offers no guarantees-only odds. Around them, lives intersect and fracture: the displaced, the broken, the forgotten. Each carrying their own quiet calculations of hope and despair. But survival is more than numbers. And love, in a place like this, may be the most dangerous gamble of all. The Ballroom is a haunting and deeply human portrait of resilience, dignity, and the fragile arithmetic of survival.

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Abraham Boyarsky is a Canadian novelist, mathematician, and professor of mathematics and statistics at Concordia University in Montreal. Born November 16, 1946, he earned his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1971 and conducted postdoctoral research at the Mathematics Institute of Hebrew University before joining Concordia's faculty.A prolific scholar, Boyarsky has authored or co-authored over 145 research papers in mathematics and is the co-author of the graduate-level text *Laws of Chaos*. His literary career spans four decades and includes the novels *Schielber* (1982), which received the Canadian League of Poets' Gerald Lambert Memorial Award; *The Number Hall* (winner of the Toronto Jewish Literary Prize, 1992); *The Ratcatcher* (2006); and *A Gift of Rags* (2015). His short-story collection *A Pyramid of Time* further showcases his distinctive voice and narrative skill.Boyarsky's most recent novel, *Through Shadows Slow*, was awarded the national CJLA 2020 Award for best work of fiction. His forthcoming book, *The Ballroom*, continues his exploration of human resilience amid social collapse, blending his mathematical precision with a poet's eye for detail.Abraham Boyarsky lives and works in Montreal, where he continues to teach, write, and bridge the worlds of science and literature.

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