The Birthday Party (Paperback)

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 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 unravelling 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.

General

Imprint:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2023
First published:	2022
Authors:	Laurent Mauvignier
Translators:	Daniel Becker
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	504
ISBN-13:	978-1-80427-022-6
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-80427-022-9
Barcode:	9781804270226

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