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The Birthday Party

Laurent Mauvignier
3.75/5 (982 ratings)
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A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller by a major French writer.

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 neighbor, 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 unraveling 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.
Format:
Pages:
454 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Transit Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1945492651
ISBN13:
9781945492655
kindle Asin:
B0BRT8STBK

The Birthday Party

Laurent Mauvignier
3.75/5 (982 ratings)
Read Download
A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller by a major French writer.

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 neighbor, 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 unraveling 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.
Format:
Pages:
454 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Transit Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1945492651
ISBN13:
9781945492655
kindle Asin:
B0BRT8STBK

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