Days of Sand



by Hélène Dorion
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

ISBN 9781897151075 | 5.125" x 7.625" | TPB with French Flaps | $18
Categories:Fiction - Literary, Translations

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Days of Sand is an autobiographical work which transcends mere biography to become a work of sensory fiction. In vivid, poetic language, Dorion has created an intimate work of contemplation and meditation. Set on the shores of the St. Lawrence and the beaches of Maine, the novel mixes memory and desire, the past with the present. The ideas and themes explored are those that have been present throughout Dorion’s critically acclaimed career: namely, the place of the private individual in the public space.
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"Poetic and expressive ... her images are soothing and comforting even while they probe the frightening unanswerables of life. There is a luxuriousness in her prose."
- The Globe and Mail
"The prose, in Jonathan Kaplansky's smooth translation, carries you along on ... a contemplative current ... Dorion renders with immediacy that time in life when our sensory receptors have not yet hardened and every even is potentially life-altering."
- National Post