Les Sables Mouvants / Shifting Sands

Fiction. Bilingual Edition in French and English. Translated from the French by Joseph Jones. This bilingual edition is the first English translation of Aquin's groundbreaking novella. It is also the first time it appears in French, outside of the multi-volume critical edition. In this novella the young Aquin turns away from ordinary narrative towards the signature qualities of his later writing, and documents the narrator's psychological journey from anticipation and impatience to personal apocalypse.