The Investigation
The Investigator is despatched to a provincial town to find out the truth behind a disturbing spate of suicides amongst employees of The Firm. But from the moment he steps off the train, he finds himself in a world that is alien, unrecognisable, and diabolically complex. From the hostile weather and the fickle hospitality at Hotel Hope to the town's bewildering inhabitants, everything seems to be against him to the point where he wonders whether he is trapped in a recurring nightmare, or has passed into the realm of death itself. Cold, hungry and humiliated, and always one step behind, he nevertheless remains determined to find the only man h…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hahn, Daniel (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-85705-157-8
- EAN: 9780857051578
- Produktnummer: 23195132
- Verlag: Quercus Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H13.1 cm x B19.6 cm x D1.6 cm 168 g
- Gewicht: 168
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Philippe Claudel is a novelist, film director and university lecturer. He is the author of Grey Souls, Brodeck's Report and Monsieur Linh and His Child and was appointed to l'academie Goncourt in 2012. Daniel Hahn translates from the French and Portuguese. His translation of José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons received the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2006.
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