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- Author: Laurent Mauvignier
- Publisher: TRANSIT BOOKS
- Pages: 454
- ISBN-10: 1945492651
- ISBN-13: 9781945492655
- Format: 12.5 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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"A real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence."--The New York Times
Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar
car rolling up the driveway. And as night falls, strangers stalk the houses, unleashing
a nightmarish chain of events.
Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a deft unraveling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer.
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- Author: Laurent Mauvignier
- Publisher: TRANSIT BOOKS
- Pages: 454
- ISBN-10: 1945492651
- ISBN-13: 9781945492655
- Format: 12.5 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
"A real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence."--The New York Times
Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar
car rolling up the driveway. And as night falls, strangers stalk the houses, unleashing
a nightmarish chain of events.
Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a deft unraveling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer.
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