White by Marie Darrieussecq
It is 2015. Edmée and Pete are engineers on a remote research station in Antarctica. Both are running from tragic events at home. In this setting of magnificent desolation, just fifteen kilometres from the South Pole, a love affair begins to flourish - until there is a catastrophic power failure at the base . . .
"'Beautiful, disturbing and startlingly inventive' Metro 'A major achievement. This is indeed writing on a grand scale in a slim volume.' Guardian 'Pits the heat of desire against the unmelting glaciers. One of the freshest, quirkiest and most radical voices in contemporary French fiction.' Michele Roberts, Independent"
Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. She is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Her debut novel, Pig Tales (1996), was published in 34 countries and became the most popular first novel in France since the 1950s. Her second novel, My Phantom Husband (1998), became an immediate bestseller. Her third novel, Breathing Underwater, prompted Francis Gilbert in The Times to declare that 'there are very few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them'. Her fourth novel, A Brief Stay with the Living, is published in June 2003. Ian Monk was born near London, but now lives in Lille, France, where he works as a writer and translator of Hervé Le Tellier, Georges Perec, and others.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571223886 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571223885 |
| Title | White |
| Author | Marie Darrieussecq |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2006-05-04 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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