TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mauvignier,Laurent
AU  - Levin Becker,Daniel
TI  - The birthday party
SN  - 9781945492655
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - Transit Books
KW  - Anonymous letters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Captivity
KW  - Threat (Psychology)
KW  - Birthday parties
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Women painters
KW  - Strangers
KW  - Marital conflict
KW  - France
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N1  - This translation originally published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions; Translation of: Histoires de la nuit. [Paris] : Les éditions de Minuit, [2020]
N2  - "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."--
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