{"product_id":"artificial-snow-book-florian-zeller-9781901285840","title":"Artificial Snow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eArtificial Snow\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut novel from Florian Zeller, the precociously talented French writer and playwright an urbane, witty and heavily autobiographical portrait of the lives of twenty-somethings in Paris, describing their insecurities, their preoccupations and their egotism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e A piece of sharp, often unsettling, autofiction, dissecting life, loneliness and the Parisian dinner party, \u003cem\u003eArtifical Snow\u003c\/em\u003eis also a twisted love story, centred on a woman with whom the narrator has had a brief relationship and is now obsessed. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'One of the hottest literary talents in France' \u003cbr\u003e— Chris Schuler, \u003cem\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'An intellectual prodigy.'\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'A precocious literary success ... paying homage to the author's first literary hero, Milan Kundera.' \u003cbr\u003e— \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlorian Zeller\u003c\/strong\u003e (born in 1979) is a critically acclaimed French novelist and playwright, the recipient of numerous literary awards, a university lecturer at the prestigious Sciences-Po in Paris, and a journalist for \u003cem\u003eParis Match\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eVol de Nuit\u003c\/em\u003e. For his first novel \u003cem\u003eArtificial Snow\u003c\/em\u003e he received the Hachette Foundation Literary Prize, the Writing Talent Award from the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and the New Writer Award from the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation.His third novel \u003cem\u003eThe Fascination of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e, received the Prix Interallie, and he has been awarded the Prix Jeune Theatre de l'Academie Francaise for his plays. He lives in Paris with his wife, the model, actress and sculptor Marine Delterme. His novels \u003cem\u003eArtificial Snow\u003c\/em\u003e (Neiges Artificielles), \u003cem\u003eLovers or Something Like It\u003c\/em\u003e (Les amants du n importe quoi), \u003cem\u003eJulien Parme\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Fascination of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e (La fascination du pire) are all available from Pushkin Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49621752611089,"sku":"GOR001885904","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1901285847.jpg?v=1751124331","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/artificial-snow-book-florian-zeller-9781901285840","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}