'This exotic, disorienting and dazzling novel tells the story of words
of their sound, their taste, their shape
and asks grave and essential questions about time and language.'
La Presse '[Brossard] writes with a poetic intensity that burns select lines and sometimes entire paragraphs into the reader's mind.'
Montreal Gazette 'The atmosphere of reverie that mesmerizes ... Read morethe novel's characters and sends them careening into other selves also overcomes the reader ... Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood's translation is noteworthy, bold and pulsing with Brossardesque poetic energy ('suspiteful'
yum). The English version is suggestive without being overt, and playful without seeming clever; it's the perfect translation of an elegant, complicated book.'
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