Like a Beast, by Joy Sorman, II, translation by Lara Vergnaud
Joy Sorman
[Photo: C. Hélie. All rights reserved.]
Part I of this translation can be found on this site here.
The original French text of part II can be found here on Salon .ll.
Sivan Slapak converses with Lisa Newman about her debut book Here is Still Here on The Yiddish Book Center's podcast, The Shmooze. Listen here
Sivan Slapak
May 2024
$22.95 | ISBN: 9781773901466
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Sivan Slapak lived in Jerusalem for twenty years before returning to Canada in 2013. Since then, her short fiction and essays have been published by The New Quarterly, Montreal Serai, and carte blanche and in collections published by Véhicule Press and Guernica Editions. She was selected as a finalist for the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, won the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award once and was shortlisted twice. She lives in Montreal, where she works in the arts and culture sector. Here Is Still Here is her first book.
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Joy Sorman
[Photo: C. Hélie. All rights reserved.]
Part I of this translation can be found on this site here.
The original French text of part II can be found here on Salon .ll.
It’s absurd to compare the Pier, not to mention the giant Ferris wheel circling above the beach, to the gleaming perfection of the famous Assembly rooms in Bath, but absurdity is intrinsic to the Pier, so all comparisons are sublimely ludicrous.

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