After collecting poems and fragments in Say friend and come in(Triptych, 2021) and The boys interludes (Hamac, 2022), Victor Bégin is publishing his first novel this fall. Jude, the skin-deep narrator of this moving travel story, leaves his daily life in Magog (and his troubled relationship with Jacob) for the splendors of Iceland. “It’s the summer of an intimate journey the world is taking shape in several roads torn apart by hand I can choose where I go and put pieces of myself back together on my own path that’s how I feel . » Like a diamond that sharpens visibly, the young man, guided by the chance of his wanderings, meets beings who transform him and who are transformed by him, men and women of different ages whom he unknowingly photographs friends and lovers who reveal it to himself. In this poetic, evocative, restorative prose, music, transcendent, food, unifying, alcohol, exhilarating, and nature, sovereign, occupy a place of choice. This Iceland, like Jude, we leave with regret.
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