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The Investigation
Philippe Claudel
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Description for The Investigation
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The Investigator is despatched to a provincial town to find out the truth behind a disturbing spate of suicides amongst employees of The Firm. But from the moment he steps off the train, he finds himself in a world that is alien, unrecognisable, and diabolically complex.
From the hostile weather and the fickle hospitality at Hotel Hope to the town's bewildering inhabitants, everything seems to be against him to the point where he wonders whether he is trapped in a recurring nightmare, or has passed into the realm of death itself.
Cold, hungry and humiliated, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857051578
SKU
V9780857051578
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About Philippe Claudel
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 José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons received the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in ... Read more
Reviews for The Investigation
'A complex novel of ideas ... [Claudel] has managed a rare trick' David Annand, Daily Telegraph.
Daily Telegraph
'Written with such relish, inventiveness, imagination and brio, that it is consistently entertaining' Allan Massie, Scotsman.
Scotsman
'The twists develop with venomous imagination and the wider themes are elegantly explored' David Mills, Sunday Times.
Sunday Times
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Daily Telegraph
'Written with such relish, inventiveness, imagination and brio, that it is consistently entertaining' Allan Massie, Scotsman.
Scotsman
'The twists develop with venomous imagination and the wider themes are elegantly explored' David Mills, Sunday Times.
Sunday Times
... Read more