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020			_a9781804270226
037			_cPurchased _n Prism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bMAU/BI
100			_aMauvignier,Laurent
245			_aBIRTHDAY PARTY
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bFitzcarraldo Editions _c2023/01/01
300			_g499
500			_aBuried 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.
650			_aFiction
650			_aFrench fiction
650			_a Modern Period
650			_a 20th Century
700			_aBecker,Daniel Levin (tr.)
942			_cLEN
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999			_c190361 _d190361