Philippe Claudel, Author, John Cullen, Translator , trans. from the French by John Cullen. Doubleday/Talese $26 (313p) ISBN 978-0-385-52724-8
Coming across as the love child of Bela Tarr's film Werckmeister Harmóniák
and Gabriel García Márquez's “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” this disconcerting and darkly atmospheric novel, set in...
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Philippe Claudel, trans. from the French by John Cullen. Doubleday/Talese, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-53534-2
As this overly philosophical novel begins, the Investigator arrives in a strange, unnamed city with a mandate to look into “a most unusually high” suicide rate at the Enterprise, an organization worthy of both the adjectives Orwellian and Kafkaesque.
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Philippe Claudel, Author, Hoyt Rogers, Translator , trans. from the French by Hoyt Rogers. Knopf $23 (194p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4280-7
Nimbly translated, French former screenwriter Claudel's little gem of a debut novel is, in essence, a whodunit. On a frigid morning in December 1917, the body of a 10-year-old girl is discovered, strangled, on the banks of the "slow"...
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