The Birthday Party

di Laurent Mauvignier (Autore)

Daniel Becker (Traduttore)

Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023

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.

• Autore: Laurent Mauvignier
• Traduttore: Daniel Becker
• Editore: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 504 p.
• Dimensioni: 197 x 125 mm
• EAN: 9781804270226

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