Wild Dog (eBook)

A sinister and savage psychological thriller

Serge Joncour (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
352 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-80533-429-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Franck and Lise, a Parisian couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot, with no phone signal, to get away from the stresses of modern life. A mysterious dog emerges, looking for a new master. Ghosts of a dark past run wild. They meet a German lion tamer, who took refuge during the First World War . . .Faced with nature at its most brutal, the holiday-makers are about to discover that man and beast have more in common than they think.

Autor

Serge Joncour is a novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Paris in 1961 and studied philosophy at university before deciding to become a writer. He wrote the screenplay for Sarah's Key starring Kristin Scott Thomas, released in 2011. Wild Dog, winner of the Prix Landerneau des Lecteurs in France, is the first of his novels to be published in English.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2025
• Übersetzer: Jane Aitken, Polly Mackintosh
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Balzac • character-driven • Coetzee • Contemporary literature • deep nature exploration • disconnecting from modern life • environmental themes • first novels • First World War • french landscape • historical fiction • Immersive Storytelling • judging panels • literary fiction • literary inspiration • Nature writing • Personal Reflection • returning to nature • transportive narrative • unknown France • untamed nature • Writing Process • writing routine • Zola
• ISBN-10: 1-80533-429-8 / 1805334298
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80533-429-3 / 9781805334293