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The birthday party

Mauvignier, Laurent, author, Levin Becker, Daniel, translator

2022

Overview

\"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.

• Publisher: Transit Books
• Subject: Anonymous letters Fiction. / Captivity Fiction. / Threat (Psychology) Fiction. / Birthday parties Fiction. / Farm life Fiction. / Women painters Fiction. / Strangers Fiction. / Marital conflict Fiction. / France Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781945492655, 1945492651

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PQ2673.A836 MAU	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE