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The birthday party
- Title
- The birthday party / Laurent Mauvignier ; translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker.
- Author
- Mauvignier, Laurent
- Publication
- Oakland, California : Transit Books, [2022]
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-1436 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Levin Becker, Daniel
- Description
- 446 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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."--
- Uniform Title
- Histoires de la nuit. English
- Alternative Title
- Histoires de la nuit.
- Subject
- Anonymous letters > Fiction
- Captivity > Fiction
- Threat (Psychology) > Fiction
- Birthday parties > Fiction
- Farm life > Fiction
- Women painters > Fiction
- Strangers > Fiction
- Marital conflict > Fiction
- Anonymous letters
- Birthday parties
- Captivity
- Farm life
- Marital conflict
- Strangers
- Threat (Psychology)
- Women painters
- France > Fiction
- France
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Note
- This translation originally published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
- Translation of: Histoires de la nuit. [Paris] : Les éditions de Minuit, [2020].
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Text in English translated from French.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-1436
- ISBN
- 9781945492655
- 1945492651
- LCCN
- 2022945968
- OCLC
- 1365390542
- Author
- Mauvignier, Laurent, author.
- Title
- The birthday party / Laurent Mauvignier ; translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : Transit Books, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the French.Text in English translated from French.
- Added Author
- Levin Becker, Daniel, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-1436