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How's the Pain? (Paperback)
Pascal Garnier; Translated by Emily Boyce; Introduction by John Banville
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R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
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How's the Pain? is an off-kilter, blackly comic novel about an
unlikely duo of a soon-to-be-retired assassin and a deadbeat young
man, from the 'slyly funny' [Sunday Times] Pascal Garnier.
'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times Death is
Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is
preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast,
and he needs a driver. Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he's
never seen the sea. He can't pass up the chance to chauffeur for
Simon, whatever his mother may say. As the unlikely pair set off on
their journey, Bernard soon finds that Simon's definition of vermin
is broader than he'd expected ... Veering from the hilarious to the
horrific, this offbeat story from master stylist Pascal Garnier is
at heart an affecting study of human frailty.
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Boxes (Paperback)
Pascal Garnier; Translated by Melanie Florence
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R195
Discovery Miles 1 950
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Brice and Emma had bought their new home in the countryside
together. And then Emma disappeared. Now, as he awaits her return,
Brice busies himself with DIY and walks around the village. He
gradually comes to know his new neighbours including Blanche, an
enigmatic woman in white, who has lived on her own in the big house
by the graveyard since the death of her father, to whom Brice bears
a curious resemblance...
'Wonderful. . . properly noir' Ian Rankin 'Devastating and
brilliant' Sunday Times 'Happiness for those unused to it is like
food for the starving - a little too much can be fatal.' Writer
Jeff Colombier is not accustomed to success. Twice divorced with a
grown-up son he barely sees, he drinks too much and his books don't
sell. Then he wins a big literary prize and his life changes for
ever. Overwhelmed by his newfound wealth and happiness, he feels
the need to escape and recapture his lost youth, taking his son,
Damien, with him. And if shady lawyers and mysterious girls lead
them down dangerous paths . . . well, c'est la vie. A twisted,
trippy feat of French noir from 'the true heir to Simenon'.
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Moon in a Dead Eye (Paperback)
Pascal Garnier; Translated by Emily Boyce
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R264
R213
Discovery Miles 2 130
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At first it feels like a terrible mistake: they're the only
residents and it's raining non-stop. Then three neighbours arrive,
the sun comes out, and life becomes far more interesting and
agreeable. Until, that is, some gypsies set up camp just outside
their gated community -
Fabien and Sylvie had both known their marriage was no longer
working. And yet when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident,
her husband is stunned to discover that she had a lover who died
alongside her. With thoughts of revenge on his mind, Fabien decides
to find out about the lover's widow, Martine, first by stalking
her, then by breaking into her home. He really needs to get Martine
on her own. But she never goes anywhere without her formidable best
friend, Madeleine ...
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Islanders (Paperback)
Pascal Garnier; Translated by Emily Boyce
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R237
R192
Discovery Miles 1 920
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It's a few days before Christmas in Versailles. Olivier has come to
bury his mother, but the impending holidays and icy conditions have
delayed the funeral. While trapped in limbo at his mother's flat, a
chance encounter brings Olivier back in touch with childhood friend
Jeanne and her blind brother, Rodolphe. Rodolphe suggests they have
dinner together, along with a homeless man he's taken in. As the
wine flows, dark secrets are spilled, and there's more than just
hangovers to deal with the next morning...
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A26 (Paperback)
Melanie Florence; Pascal Garnier
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R206
R167
Discovery Miles 1 670
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The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a huge
motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since
1945. Traumatised by events that year, Yolande hasn't left her home
since. And life has not been kinder to Bernard, her brother, who is
now in the final months of a terminal illness. Realizing that he
has so little time left, Bernard's gloom suddenly lifts. With no
longer anything to lose, he becomes reckless - and murderous -
Recently widowed grandmother Eliette is returning to her house in
the mountains when her car breaks down. A stranger offers help and
Eliette gives him a lift, glad of the company and interruption to
her routine. A tale of retirement and calm domesticity, with a hint
of menace about to explode.
At least vultures have the decency to wait until their prey's dead
before picking it apart ...After losing his wife and suffering a
stroke, cantankerous retiree Edouard Lavenant has moved from Lyon
to a village in the mountains with his put-upon nurse, Therese. One
day, a man comes to the door claiming to be Edouard's long-lost
son. Edouard's temper seems to be softening, but it isn't long
before the local vultures are circling overhead ...
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Eskimo Solution (Paperback)
Pascal Garnier; Translated by Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken
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R228
Discovery Miles 2 280
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A crime author writing the story of Louis, who decides to do his
cash-strapped friends a favor by hastening their parents' demise,
finds reality and fiction overlapping during a stay in
Normandy.Pascal Garnier combines the style of Simenon, the insight
of Camus with a wit that is all his own.
'Shifting from psychological thriller to absurd road trip tinged
with black humor, A Long Way Off is the odyssey of an anti-hero'
France-Amerique 'Rich and abundant in dark comedy' Strong Words
Magazine 'Masterly' John Banville 'Wonderful . . . properly noir'
Ian Rankin Marc dreams of going somewhere far, far away - but he'll
start by taking his cat and his grown-up daughter, Anne, to an
out-of-season resort on the Channel. Reluctant to go home, the
curious threesome head south for Agen, whose main claim to fame is
its prunes. As their impromptu road trip takes ever stranger turns,
the trail of destruction - and mysterious disappearances - mounts
up in their wake. Shocking, hilarious and poignant, the final dose
of French noir from Pascal Garnier, published shortly before his
death, is the author on top form.
Volume 1 includes How's the Pain?, the tale of an ageing `pest
exterminator' taking on one last job on the French Riviera; The
Panda Theory, in which a stranger, Gabriel, arrives in a Breton
town and befriends the locals ... but is he as angelic as he
seems?; and The A26, in which a new Picardy motorway brings
modernity close to a flat in which a brother and sister live
together, haunted by terminal illness and the events of 1945.
Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short
novels weave a profound and darkly comic tapestry of human
experience. Volume 2 includes Boxes, which tells the story of
Brice, `the sole survivor of the natural disaster that at one time
or another strikes us all, known as `moving house''; The Front Seat
Passenger, in which a widower discovers his wife had a lover and
decides to track down his widow; The Islanders, whose protagonist
Olivier finds himself thrown back together with a childhood friend
with whom he shares a dark secret; and Moon in a Dead Eye, in which
the paranoia of the residents of a gated retirement village spins
out of control.
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