The Birthday Party (eBook)

Laurent Mauvignier (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
504 Seiten
Fitzcarraldo Editions (Verlag)
978-1-80427-023-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.1.2023
• Übersetzer: Daniel Levin Becker
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Crime • detective • Ghosts • Identity • literary thriller • Memory • Murder • Mystery • nightmarish • PAST • Psychological thriller • rural france • social thriller • Suspense • Tension
• ISBN-10: 1-80427-023-7 / 1804270237
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80427-023-3 / 9781804270233