Results for "Mauvignier, Laurent"

2023 International Booker Prize, Longlist New York Times Editors' Choice "A real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence."--The New York Times Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save ... Read More about The Birthday Party

“Where is your wound?” asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies four decades back in “the Events” that people have tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian... Read More about The Wound (French Voices)

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 neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a s... Read More about The Birthday Party