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Reticence

By Lambert , John; Toussaint , Jean-Philippe

Book information

Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Year
2012
ISBN
1564787109, 978-1-56478-710-1, 9781564787453, 1564787451
Language
englishfrench
Format
EPUB
Filesize
412 kB (422139 bytes)
Series
Belgian literature series
Edition
First edition
Pages
128\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
FICTION / General Tourists -- Fiction. Paranoia --

Description

“A little thing happened to me. Which could just as easily have happened to you. You’re on vacation in a hotel with your son in a small village and you’re about to go see some friends, but something holds you back, a mysterious reticence that prevents you from going to find them. Here is the novel of this reticence, small and specific, and of the fears that it instigates, little by little. Because not only are your friends not there when you do decide to go find them, but, several days later, you find a dead cat in the harbor, a black cat floating in front of you on the water…” In Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s take on the detective novel, we find a man on vacation in a tiny village, where a writer named Biaggi appears to be keeping him under surveillance. To what end? Ah, but it’s far more pleasant to enjoy the Mediterranean night air than to look for answers, make deductions, or get upset―isn’t it?

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