The Company of Ghosts, Followed By Some Useful Advice For Apprentice Process-Servers

Lydie Salvayre (Author); Christopher Woodall (Translation and Preface by)

ISBN 10: 1564783502 / ISBN 13: 9781564783509

Published by Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL, London, 2006

About this Item

184 pp. Flawless copy.

Seller Inventory # 1iDc0005

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Company of Ghosts, Followed By Some Useful Advice For Apprentice Process-Servers
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL, London
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564783502
• ISBN 13: 9781564783509
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Clinton Inselmann (Cover Design)
• Edition: 1st Edition: 2006
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel

About this title

Synopsis

When a bailiff turns up, a teenager tries to salvage her mother, their dignity and the TV. When a bailiff arrives at a housing project on the edge of Paris to draw up a routine inventory of goods in view of seizure, the reception he receives from Rose Melle and her teenage daughter is more than he has bargained for. Rose, forever unhinged by the trauma of childhood spent under Nazi occupation, mistakes him for a collaborationist thug and assails him with her alternately tragic and hilarious memories of Vichy France. In a narrative that lurches giddily between 1942 and 1997, Salvayre picks at the sores of recent French history, exposing its continuing authoritarianism. "The Company Of Ghosts" won the Prix Novembre in France.

About the Authors

Lydie Salvayre, daughter of refugees from the Spanish Civil War, grew up in the south of France, where she received a degree in psychiatry. In her mid-forties she published her first novel, The Declaration. She has since published nine other books, including Everyday Life and The Power of Flies, and has received numerous awards, including the Prix Hermes and the Prix Novembre.

Chris Woodall is former Associate Professor of Dogmatics at North-West University, South Africa. He is the author of Covenant: The Basis of God's Self-Disclosure (Wipf & Stock).