Le prisonnier sans frontières #[nn]

A hand reaches through a small barred window while a bird carries what appears to be a letter or drawing across an open, softly rendered sky — Jacques Goldstyn's delicate watercolor-and-pencil cover immediately evokes themes of confinement, longing, and the quiet defiance of imagination. Published by Bayard Canada in 2015, this French-language work carries a gentle but unmistakable emotional weight in every loosely sketched line. It's the kind of cover that draws you in with its stillness rather than its noise.