Searching For Sam A Novel Sophie Bienvenu Rhonda Mullins Translation by Sophie Bienvenu, Rhonda Mullins (translation) 9781772012910, 9781772012460, 1772012912, 1772012467 instant download after payment.

Mathieu lives on the street. His main companion is his pitbull, Sam – the one connection he retains in the world, helping him to stay alive. So when Sam disappears out of the blue, Mathieu is left adrift. As he frantically searches for her, his past begins to re-emerge in flashbacks, revealing the tragedies of his life.

Searching for Sam is a monologue written from Mathieu’s perspective, one that draws the reader into his interior world. As writer & journalist Marie Hélène Poitras writes in her insightful foreword, it is a book about survivors that “offers readers … a powerful human experience.”

Sophie Bienvenu is a Québécois writer. After studying visual communication in Paris, she settled in Québec in 2001 & quickly established herself as a successful blogger. Et au pire, on se mariera (La Mèche) her first novel, was followed by Chercher Sam, translated as Searching for Sam by Rhonda Mullins, & Autour d’elle, also translated by Rhonda Mullins as Around Her. Ceci n’est pas de l’amour (This Is Not Love) was her first poetry collection, published in 2016 by Poètes de brousse.

Bienvenu’s writing takes its readers on an emotional journey, an intense exploration of profoundly human characters, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Rhonda Mullins is a French-to-English translator, writer, & editor. As a literary translator, she has translated a number of works of non-fiction & was a finalist for the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation for The Decline of the Hollywood Empire by Hervé Fischer. Mullins holds an MA in media studies from Concordia University, as well as a BA in communications & a BSc in political science from the University of Ottawa. She has studied & taught translation at McGill University.