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Oct 07, 2008 | ISBN 9781583228487 Buy
Jan 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781583229798 Buy
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Oct 07, 2008 | ISBN 9781583228487
Jan 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781583229798
Finalist for Best Translated Book of 2008 by the Hermeneutic CircleFrench Voices AwardA lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris’s gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and the man she loves, she finds herself at a crossroads, pitting her desire against her sanity. This smashing debut novel sparkles with mordant humor and sexy charm.
“Not only is it the finest first novel I have read in many years, but it is, quite simply, one of the most original and brilliantly executed works of fiction by any contemporary writer I know of.” –Paul Auster “Recalls the most disturbing moments in Marguerite Duras’s work … [A] strange, sinister and compelling novel.” –Financial Times “An infrared view of Sex and the City, a snapshot plunged in an acrid bath.” –Globe and Mail “With an extraordinary sense of the mechanisms of love and the empathy of a saint for the human race, Céline Curiol gives us the most original and the best new book of the year.” –Marie Claire “The product of exquisite craft … it manages to be technically accomplished while being technically daring.” –Women’s Review of Books
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