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Chopin's move : a novel / by Jean Echenoz ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.

Title: Chopin's move : a novel / by Jean Echenoz ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.
Author: Echenoz, Jean
Publication: [Normal, Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Polizzotti, Mark

Description

135 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Chopin's Move, a tale of spies and flies, interweaves the fates of Chopin, entomologist and recalcitrant secret agent with a talent for turning bugs into "bugs"; Oswald, a young foreign-affairs employee who vanishes en route to his new home; Oswald's wife, Suzy, who gets enmeshed in a tangle of deceit and counterdeceit (in part through her own relations with Chopin); the mysterious Colonel Seck, whose motivations are never quite what they seem; and a typically Echenozian supporting cast of neurotic bodyguards, disquieting functionaries, and crafty double-agents.
As the plot thickens, the characters become embroiled in layer upon layer of deception and double-dealing, leading them further into a world in which nothing can be taken at face value, and in which "reality" hinges on apparently harmless coincidence."--Jacket.

Series Statement

French literature series

Uniform Title

Alternative Title

Lac.

Subject

Entomologists > Fiction

Genre/Form

Note

ISBN

1564783340 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003070090

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library