Laurent Mauvignier

The Birthday Party (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Levin Becker, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 neighbour, 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 unravelling 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804270233
• Artikelnr.: 66772739

Autorenporträt

Laurent Mauvignier was born in Tours in 1967. He gained a degree in Fine Art from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1991, and published his first novel, Loin d'eux [Far from Them], in 1999. He has since written numerous novels, including In the Crowd (2006), The Wound (2009) and Continuer [Carrying On] (2018), all published by Éditions de Minuit, and is the winner of eleven literary prizes, including the Prix Wepler and the Prix Amerigo-Vespucci. He is also a playwright and has written scripts for TV and film. The Birthday Party is his first book with Fitzcarraldo Editions.