Translation Is a Love Affair (Paperback)

from kidzdoc

Jacques Poulin is an award-winning French Canadian author who is considered to be "the most North American of the Quebec authors writing in French". This book was originally published as 'La traduction est une histoire d'amour' in 2006, and was published by Archipelago Books in October 20009. It ...

from brenzi

This novella tells the story of a young French Canadian woman who is translating the work of a much older novelist. During the course of one summer, the two of them come to know each other very well through the solving of a mystery. That's not what the book is about. The book is about love and me...

from DieFledermaus

I wanted to like this book more than I did. Maybe I wasn't in the right headspace for it. I thought it would be a fun, quirky mystery with cats and translation and it started out that way, but there were a number of irritating or jarring elements. The narrator, Marine, is a peripatetic young woma...

from VioletBramble

This tranquil book is like a fairytale-ish love poem to words, language and translation. Set in and near Quebec City the book features two main characters. Marine is a young translator, just starting her career. Monsieur Waterman is an older, well respected author. Marine would like to translate ...

from DetailMuse

Moving between Quebec City and a pastoral island nearby in the Saint Lawrence River, Translation is a Love Affair develops a gentle mystery involving a middle-aged writer, a much-younger translator, a couple of cats, a quirky young girl and a troubled older girl. In one passage -- an interview a...