Brodeck's Report: WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE - Couverture rigide

Claudel, Philippe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1906694044 ISBN 13 : 9781906694043

Editeur : Quercus, 2009

Synopsis

The report that Brodeck is writing into the lynching of an artist, an outsider, a flamboyant Other figure who has deeply disturbed the fragile equilibrium of the town he briefly settled in, becomes a report into the catastrophe of his own life. Brodeck, it seems, himself also an outsider, has lately returned from a concentration camp. In the course of his investigation into the death of the artist, he uncovers the truth about his distant origins, about his having been rounded up when the Germans came to the town, and all that happened to his family when he was gone. This immensely powerful chronicle of a community's fear and loathing of what is strange, what is from the outside, has been hailed as one of the outstanding European novels of the last decade.

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À propos de l'auteur

Philippe Claudel is a university lecturer, novelist, film director and scriptwriter. He has written 14 novels that have been translated into various languages. He was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe in 1962 where he still lives. In 2009 his film I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime), which draws upon Claudel's eleven years teaching in prisons, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language film. Among his novels, Grey Souls won the Prix Renaudot in France, the American Gumshoe Award and the Swedish Martin Beck award. Brodeck's Report won the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quercus
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906694044
• ISBN 13: 9781906694043
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible