A quietly affecting modern fairy tale told with humor and warmth, Translation is a Love Affair is a slender novel of immense humanity. A Quebecois novelist with a bad back and his vivacious young tran
"This is a great and very beautiful novel."?Le Devoir"One of my favorite writers in the world is Jacques Poulin." ?Rawi Hage"Poulin shares a mix of detached humor, fantasy, and compassion with Vonnegu
“Poulin is a master of imagery and dialogue: They rest like froth on top of something much more murky and morose: an underlying fear of emptiness.”—The SilhouettePeacefully employed on an uninhabited
