Tanguy Viel
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"This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice. In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard. Called before a judge, Kermeur goes back to the beginning to explain what brought him to this desperate point: his divorce, his...
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English
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In The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, disappearance is both a theme and a stylistic device. Indeed, this publication narrates the disappearance of Dwayne Koster, who, fascinated by the story of Jim Sullivan, commits suicide in the New Mexico desert, which was the setting of the rocker's disappearance in 1975. But, this novel is for the most part set in the metanarrative tale of its own genesis, and, as a result, is partially eclipsed: its -fictitious-...
3) París-Brest
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Español
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Brest tiene fama de ser la ciudad más fea de Francia; una ciudad de la que uno sueña con huir para instalarse, por ejemplo, en París. Tal como hace Louis, quien, tras cometer un delito, escapa de Brest con cien mil francos en la maleta y vuelve, varios años después, con un manuscrito bajo el brazo: una "novela familiar" de ciento setenta y cinco páginas. En ellas decide ajustar cuentas con el mundo: con su padre, exiliado tras un escándalo...