The birthday party /
Mauvignier, Laurent,
The birthday party / Laurent Mauvignier ; translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker. - 446 pages ; 21 cm
This translation originally published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Translation of: Histoires de la nuit. [Paris] : Les éditions de Minuit, [2020].
"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 neighbor, 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 unraveling 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."--
Translated from the French.
Text in English translated from French.
9781945492655 1945492651
Anonymous letters--Fiction.
Captivity--Fiction.
Threat (Psychology)--Fiction.
Birthday parties--Fiction.
Farm life--Fiction.
Women painters--Fiction.
Strangers--Fiction.
Marital conflict--Fiction.
France--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.
The birthday party / Laurent Mauvignier ; translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker. - 446 pages ; 21 cm
This translation originally published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Translation of: Histoires de la nuit. [Paris] : Les éditions de Minuit, [2020].
"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 neighbor, 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 unraveling 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."--
Translated from the French.
Text in English translated from French.
9781945492655 1945492651
Anonymous letters--Fiction.
Captivity--Fiction.
Threat (Psychology)--Fiction.
Birthday parties--Fiction.
Farm life--Fiction.
Women painters--Fiction.
Strangers--Fiction.
Marital conflict--Fiction.
France--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.