Underground Time: A Novel
Every day, Mathilde takes the Metro to her job at a large multinational, where she has felt miserable and isolated ever since getting on the wrong side of her bullying boss. Every day, Thibault, a paramedic, drives where his dispatcher directs him, fighting traffic to attend to disasters. For...
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Every day, Mathilde takes the Metro to her job at a large multinational, where she has felt miserable and isolated ever since getting on the wrong side of her bullying boss. Every day, Thibault, a paramedic, drives where his dispatcher directs him, fighting traffic to attend to disasters. For many of the people he rushes to treat, he represents the only human connection in their day. Mathilde and Thibault are just two figures being pushed and shoved in a lonesome, crowded city. But what might happen if these two souls, traveling their separate paths, could meet? Delphine de Vigan tells this story of urban isolation with poetic precision and resilient humor, in the much lauded follow-up to her bestselling No and Me.Praise for No and Me:"Thought-provoking and often poetic musings about No's life challenge readers to rethink their responsibilities to humankind…Quiet yet gripping."-Kirkus Reviews "All ages will find much to relish in this deceptively simple tale that is touching and enlightening." -Herald (Scotland)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781608197125 (1608197123)
ASIN: 1608197123
Publish date: 2011-11-22
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Roman,
France,
French Literature,
Fiction
This is life in the 21st century: Wake up and hear the noises of the city around you. Heave your body into a train car, squeezing every last inch of yourself into a vacancy. Physically contact several people during your commute; feel utterly alone. Sit at your desk and consider your work. Encounter ...
Rating: 4.5 StarsUnderground Time is a difficult book to read. I found myself setting it down, time and time again, telling myself I wouldn’t pick it back up because there was enough depression in life without needing to read about it in a book too. When I did, inevitably, pick it up, I found myself...
I won this novel through First Reads, and I absolutely loved it. This was such a well wrought novel with beautifully crafted sympathetic characters; it was a genuine pleasure to read. It reminded me of some of the darker stories by Maggie O’Farrell, only much bleaker. That’s both good and bad. D...