The birthday party
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Author
Contributors
Levin Becker, Daniel, translator.
Published
Oakland, California : Transit Books, 2022.
Format
Book
Status
Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult)
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Published
Oakland, California : Transit Books, 2022.
Physical Desc
446 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Translated from the French.
General Note
Translation of: Histoires de la nuit.
Description
"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."--,Provided by publisher.