March soon, and it’s already 28°C in Montreal. Hollywood is living a dead-end life working at the local graveyard. Meanwhile, it’s snowing non-stop all over Europe and in Toronto, where Xavier works for a pharmaceutical company he couldn’t care less about. The two meet somewhere in between... only ever in their dreams. This fresh, international novel weaves the fates of two unlikely friends whose days and nights are filled with movies and music, sleeping pills and shooting stars. A beautiful piece of magical realism with a modern, existential twist.Madeleine Stratford translates the voice of Hollywood, while Arielle Aaronson translates Xavier’s sections.
“From London to Toronto, via Bilbao, Montauk, and San Francisco, Pierre-Luc Landry plunges readers into a waking dream.” —Samuel Larochelle, Fugues
"It’s an intriguing novel about the biggest of topics – the nature of truth and existence, the conditions for real human connection – which Landry orchestrates with ingenuity and dry wit into an offbeat kind of cosmic road-movie." —Simon Lavery, tredynasdays.co.uk
"Inventive . . . This adventurous, improbable novel, which leaves readers wondering whether the two characters are, in fact, two different destinies of the same person, is an intelligent take on a hybrid of literary and genre writing.” —Publishers Weekly
“I loved the book despite the occasional confusion . . .Listening for Jupiteris an intrguing light read, a novel blurring the lines between dreams and reality . . . . I’d chalk it up as another success for a young publisher building a brand." —Tony Malone, tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com
"Arielle Aaronson (who translates Xavier’s sections), and Madeleine Stratford (who translates Hollywood’s), make sure that each character’s textual timbre rings tlƒE
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