David Homel is a literary translator and the author of eleven novels. His translations have won several prizes, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation in 1995 and 2001.
‘Language is a risk that a nation takes. If a language survives, its people do too.’ Translated from the French by David Homel.
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