Thanks to Net Galley and to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Mariner Books for providing me a free ARC copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. This is the first of Patrick Modiano’s novels I read, so I can’t comment on its similarities or differences with the rest of his oeuvre or how well...
When I began reading "I'M GONE" 3 days ago, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. At first reading, the writing style seemed too glib and casually crafted, bordering on the banal. But the author, I think, did a clever thing by inserting in the opening pages, Felix Ferrer leaving his wife Suzanne - i...
Part of the appeal of "Syndrome E" is that it's hard to classify. It's part police procedural, part Michael Chriton style medical thriller, part docudrama and completely French. It stinks of a gritty, uncompromising, almost fatalistic realism while embracing some on-the-edge-of-credible ideas. It ...
[This book has been translated into English under the titles I'm Gone and I'm Off.] Jean Echenoz (b. 1947) is a French novelist weighted down by a dozen literary prizes, including the Prix Goncourt for Je m'en vais (1999), a cooly ironic intertwining of play with literary genres and of the emp...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley It’s sad but I hadn’t heard of Patrick Modiano until he won the Nobel. Honestly, my first reaction was “who is that”. Yeah, American press doesn’t do too well when it comes to books that require translation. In terms...
bookshelves: nobel-laureate, translation, published-2006, france, autumn-2014, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, net-galley, e-book Read from October 10 to 12, 2014 A NetGALLEY read now selection. Yale University Press. Archive Date Not set.Description: A trio of intertwined novellas from the ...
Subtle, poignant, and powerful.
I just had a very Bouvard-Pécuchetian moment. After writing most of what I thought was a rather good review of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet, I clumsily exed out the tab holding my unpublished review. All that hard work and no fruit to bear! Flaubert is a keen master of small human foibles taken t...
I wanted to like this book, I really did, but after reading through it, I couldn't help thinking that it's simply a French thriller writer doing what American thriller writers have been doing for years: put two dysfunctional people (preferably cops) in a case with a creepy supernatural-ish twist and...
Greatly enjoyed it. Please read my complete review here: http://cineastesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/01/review-unknown-by-didier-van-cauwelaert.html
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