The anomaly /
Le Tellier, Hervé, 1957-
The anomaly / Hervé Le Tellier ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter. - 391 pages ; 21 cm.
"Originally published in French as L'Anomalie in 2020 by Editions Gallimard, Paris"--Title page verso.
"Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna, a formidable lawyer whose flaws have caught up with her; and Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet commercially unsuccessful writer who suddenly becomes a cult hit. All of them believed they had double lives. None imagined just how true that was. A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic, The Anomaly explores the part of ourselves that eludes us. This witty variation on the doppelgänger theme, which takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House, proves to be Hervé Le Tellier's most ambitious work yet"--
In English. Translated from the French.
9781635421699 1635421691
2021018164
Transatlantic flights--Fiction.
Doppelgängers--Fiction.
Plurality of worlds--Fiction.
Computer simulation--Fiction.
Novels.
The anomaly / Hervé Le Tellier ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter. - 391 pages ; 21 cm.
"Originally published in French as L'Anomalie in 2020 by Editions Gallimard, Paris"--Title page verso.
"Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna, a formidable lawyer whose flaws have caught up with her; and Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet commercially unsuccessful writer who suddenly becomes a cult hit. All of them believed they had double lives. None imagined just how true that was. A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic, The Anomaly explores the part of ourselves that eludes us. This witty variation on the doppelgänger theme, which takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House, proves to be Hervé Le Tellier's most ambitious work yet"--
In English. Translated from the French.
9781635421699 1635421691
2021018164
Transatlantic flights--Fiction.
Doppelgängers--Fiction.
Plurality of worlds--Fiction.
Computer simulation--Fiction.
Novels.