The Jasmine Man

From one of Canada's finest writers, comes a fabulous new novel set in Toronto, Paris and Tunisia, exploring passion and desire in a dazzling Duras-like style. Shortly after she arrives in Paris from Toronto, Amy meets Habib. This meeting changes her life forever. The married mother of a young boy, Amy is in Paris for a year because her husband Gilles is on an academic sabbatical. Habib is a Tunisian student studying at L'Universite de Paris. Two foreigners in Paris. What begins as a tentative exchange soon develops into an affair. When Amy and her son travel to Tunisia for the summer, Habib mysteriously appears. The Jasmine Man is a deeply considered novel that addresses issue of art, culture and colonialism as it explores the realms of memory and desire. With compassion and wit, Tostevin charts the repercussions of this affair. Amy's relationship with Habib is one of self-discovery, and she is forced to make difficult decisions about her future.