That time of year /
NDiaye, Marie,
That time of year / Marie NDiaye ; translated from French by Jordan Stump. - 136 pages ; 22 cm
"Originally published as: Un temps de saison ©1994 by Editions de Minuit ... Paris"--Title page verso.
"After his wife and child disappear at the end of their vacation in a small French village, Herman sets out to find them, only to find that his urgent inquiry immediately recedes into the background and he wittingly and not, becomes one with a society defined by its strange traditions, ghostly apparitions, hospitality that verges on mania, and a nightmarish act of collective forgetting"--
In English. Translated from the French.
9781931883917 1931883912
2019052039
Missing persons--Fiction.
Apparitions--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.
That time of year / Marie NDiaye ; translated from French by Jordan Stump. - 136 pages ; 22 cm
"Originally published as: Un temps de saison ©1994 by Editions de Minuit ... Paris"--Title page verso.
"After his wife and child disappear at the end of their vacation in a small French village, Herman sets out to find them, only to find that his urgent inquiry immediately recedes into the background and he wittingly and not, becomes one with a society defined by its strange traditions, ghostly apparitions, hospitality that verges on mania, and a nightmarish act of collective forgetting"--
In English. Translated from the French.
9781931883917 1931883912
2019052039
Missing persons--Fiction.
Apparitions--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.