AUG 31 - Dead Ink Book Club - Jeanne by Arielle Burgdorf

DEAD INK BOOK CLUB: JEANNE — ARIELLE BURGDORF
SUNDAY 31st AUGUST
4-6PM

Ticket price can be redeemed against bookshop purchases on the day!

When Jean, a young translator of French and Russian, receives a mysterious commission, she leaps at the chance to escape her current life—and husband—and relocate to Montréal. Marriage has destroyed her sense of self, but work offers a way to rebuild it, as Jean slowly rediscovers her identity via a series of literary encounters (as well as lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll).

With nods to the Situationists and Oulipo, JEANNE is an experimental yet at the same time intensely readable novel about gender, alterity, and linguistic insecurity.

Will translation always be seen as an act of betrayal? Or does one's willingness to speak through and with the other yield its own rewards?