01922nam a22003255i 4500 22779573 OSt 20231007135120.0 220906s2023 cau 000 0 eng 2022945968 9781804270226 9781945492655 (paperback) 9781945492716 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC pcc 840 MAU/B Mauvignier, Laurent author. 9701 The Birthday Party / Laurent Mauvignier, Daniel Levin Becker. 2301 Oakland : Transit Books, 2023. 499 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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"-- Provided by publisher. Levin Becker, Daniel, translator. 0 ibc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 823 MAU/B 823 MAU/B 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MES MES ENG 2023-10-07 0 840 MAU/B 42813 2023-10-07 13:50:41 899.00 2023-10-07 BK GR12R2 42581 42581