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Synopsis
The Investigator is despatched to a provincial town to investigate a disturbing spate of suicides amongst the employees of The Firm. But from the moment he steps off the train, he finds that everything is against him, from the hostile weather to the town`s bewildering inhabitants. Cold, hungry and humiliated, always one step behind, he finds himself in a recurring nightmare that waking cannot break. And yet his resolve never falters: he remains determined to find the only man he can hold to account - The Firm`s legendary but elusive founder.
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About the Author
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 Jose Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons received the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2006.
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'Though the message is bleak, [The Investigation] is written with such relish, inventiveness, imagination and brio, that it is consistently entertaining' The Scotsman. * Scotsman * 'There is something higher at work here; what that something is, is for the reader to puzzle over long after the story that never begins, has ended' Sunday Business Post. * Sunday Business Post * 'The twists develop with venomous imagination and the wider themes are elegantly explored' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times * 'The novel is frequently very funny, but it also skillfully evokes the insidious, modern fear that we, like the Investigator, are playing bit parts in some vast, incomprehensible system' Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal. * Wall Street Journal * 'Claudel achieves something close to the truly Kafkaesque' Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *
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- PublisherMacLehose Press
- ISBN 10 0857051547
- ISBN 13 9780857051547
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