The Birthday Party
Oakland, California : Transit Books, [2022]
Format: Book
Description: 446 pages ; 21 cm
"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.
Subjects:
Anonymous letters -- Fiction.
Captivity -- Fiction.
Threat (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Birthday parties -- Fiction.
Farm life -- Fiction.
Women painters -- Fiction.
Strangers -- Fiction.
Marital conflict -- Fiction.
Anonymous letters -- Fiction.
Captivity -- Fiction.
Threat (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Birthday parties -- Fiction.
Farm life -- Fiction.
Women painters -- Fiction.
Strangers -- Fiction.
Marital conflict -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781945492655
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Mauvignier | Sandhills Indoors | Fiction | Out (Due: 6/7/2024) |
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This translation originally published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Translation of: Histoires de la nuit. [Paris] : Les éditions de Minuit, [2020].
Translated from the French.
Text in English translated from French.
Translation of: Histoires de la nuit. [Paris] : Les éditions de Minuit, [2020].
Translated from the French.
Text in English translated from French.