Results for "Wynne, Frank"

From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an exciting comic masterwork rooted in the French countryside.  WINNER OF THE 2024 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christ... Read More about The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

Winner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize - Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize - One of The Walrus' Best Fall Books of 2023 A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris. All over the ... Read More about Standing Heavy (Biblioasis International Translation #42)

A New York Times best historical novel of the year, Victoria Mas’s The Mad Women’s Ball is a feminist literary thriller, adapted as a major film for Amazon Prime.    “In this darkly delightful Gothic treasure, Mas explores grief, trauma, and sisterhood behind the walls of Paris’s infamous ... Read More about The Mad Women's Ball: A Novel

From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex—short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is Vernon Subutex?Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of R... Read More about Vernon Subutex 1: A Novel

Out of print in the U.S. for far too long, writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s autobiographical feminist manifesto is back—in an improved English translation—“blistering with anger, and so precisely phrased that it feels an injustice to summarize it” (Nadja Spiegelman, New York Review of Books... Read More about King Kong Theory

"...An imagined life, with Faulkner's tragic sensibility and Beckett's relentless grief."-- Ricardo Baixeras, El Periodico From one of Mexico's leading writers--a memoir about three men who are driven to escape the confines of their traditional lives and roles. In 1958, Carlos Monge McKey sneaks out... Read More about What Goes Unsaid: A Memoir of Fathers Who Never Were